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Alice . The Biggest Untold Story in the History of Money

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posted on 2024-02-07, 23:05 authored by Stuart KellsStuart Kells
<p><a href="https://www.mup.com.au/books/alice-electronic-book-text" target="_blank">https://www.mup.com.au/books/alice-electronic-book-text</a> </p> <p>From Wall Street to the supreme court, how the world's largest banks control the money markets and crush competition.</p> <div>In the 1980s and 90s, amid an explosion in international money flows, a handful of people saw a new financial future and staked claims in it, triggering a battle to control the world's money markets. With phenomenal profits at stake, the conflict would go all the way to the United States Supreme Court, in a case that involved not just the largest Wall Street banks against each other, but also the tech behemoths of Silicon Valley. The extraordinary story of Alice Corporation, a company created to reimagine financial markets, brings together an unlikely cast of characters... .. In the tradition of Michael Lewis's <em>Flash Boys</em> and <em>The Big Short</em>, <em>Alice</em> is a story of ground-breaking insights, legal intrigue and improbable friendships. Pinpointing the likely causes of the next financial crisis, <em>Alice</em> reveals the fight to build a safer, fairer financial future.</div>

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Publication Date

2024-04-03

Publisher

Melbourne University

Place of publication

Melbourne

Pagination

272p.

ISBN-13

9780522880281

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© The Author 2024

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