Emily Lambert will be
at After-Words books on January 13, 2011 from 5:30-7:30 pm signing copies of her
book and interviewing Bill Henner, a trader who was featured in her work The
Futures: The Rise of the Speculator and the Origins of the World’s Biggest
Markets.
Over the past century, the Chicago
Mercantile Exchange flourished and transformed the way the world does business,
and some might argue that these advances helped create the worst financial
crisis of our lifetime. With The Futures, Lambert shows how the
unique culture and
limits of the Mercantile Exchange can serve as a useful blueprint for how
exchanges ought to work—and perhaps a tonic for our current financial ills.
In the book, Lambert tells the story of
how the men (and a few women) of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange struck it rich
on butter and eggs, pork bellies and soybeans—and created a formidable
competitor to the New York Stock Exchange. The result is an unexpectedly funny,
fascinating account of the flesh-and-blood personalities behind this
institution, not to mention the inspired business deals they made on their way
to either fabulous wealth or utter penury (depending on how well they played
the market).
Kirkus Reviews raves, “[Lambert] devotes loving attention to a parade of
outrageous risk-takers… Although she provides lucid explanations of how the
market works and how the various money-making strategies collide, the charm of
her fast-paced, informal history comes from the book’s animating insight:
‘Finance is like biology: Everything is intertwined.’…A full-blooded
introduction to an arcane world.”
Emily Lambert is senior writer for Forbes magazine, where she
covers finance and trading. She has also written for the New York Post.
She lives in Chicago.
Bill Henner is a third
generation Chicago
futures trader. He has spent over 25 years on the trading floors of the Chicago
Mercantile Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade. Bill has traded foreign
currencies, metals, interest rates, and equity index futures over the course of
his career. You can hear him every day at 8:05 am CST with his "View from Chicago" report in
the Value Zone Trading Room. www.valuezonetrading.com
Please join us for wine and beer on Thursday, January 13, 2011 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. The author will be signing following her interview with Bill Henner.
Please join us for wine and beer on Thursday, January 13, 2011 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. The author will be signing following her interview with Bill Henner.
