The Shadow Market

Revealing the real powers controlling our shaky recovery from the financial crisis and the economy of the twenty-first century.

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Taking advantage of the Great Recession, cash-flush nations such as China, Abu Dhabi, Singapore, Saudi Arabia, and even Norway are using unregulated sovereign wealth funds to secure major holdings in multinational corporations and massive tracts of farmland and natural resources. They are the Shadow Market, quietly controlling political agendas as well as the flow of capital in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Europe - and doing so with an increasingly aggressive attitude. Eric J. Weiner's groundbreaking investigation reveals the real powers controlling our shaky recovery from the financial crisis and the economy of the twenty-first century.