{"title":"Scott Patterson","description":"\u003cp\u003eScott Patterson é repórter do Wall Street Journal, responsável por cobrir os avanços tecnológicos de Wall Street. \u003cem\u003eMentes brilhantes, rombos bilionários\u003c\/em\u003e é seu primeiro livro.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"mentes-brilhantes-rombos-bilionarios","title":"Brilliant minds, billion-dollar losses","description":"\" \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHow the quants, a generation of math geniuses, dominated and nearly destroyed Wall Street.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eIn March 2006, the world's richest men gathered at a luxurious New York hotel. They were preparing to compete in a poker tournament with stakes in the millions of dollars—those numbers meant nothing to them, as they were accustomed to risking billions. At the gaming table sat Peter Muller, an eccentric, and incredibly intelligent child prodigy who had studied mathematics at Princeton and now ran a fabulously successful hedge fund. With him was Ken Griffin, who had previously traded convertible bonds at Harvard and now headed Citadel Investment Group, one of the largest money-making machines on the face of the earth. And there were also Cliff Asness, head of the AQR Capital Management fund, a man famous for his brilliance and also for destroying computers in his fits of rage, and Boaz Weinstein, master of chess and credit default swaps, who - while managing 30 billion dollars in positions for Deutsche Bank - still had time to go to Las Vegas with the famous team of card counters from MIT.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eThat night, these four men were the new kings of Wall Street. Over the past twenty years, these mathematical geniuses had displaced the testosterone-fueled investors who had long been the alpha males of the world's largest stock market. The quants, as they were called, believed that a blend of differential calculus, quantum physics, and advanced geometry—subjects indecipherable to most mortals—held the key to unlocking the vaults of the financial markets. However, few realized that night that by creating this extraordinary system, people like Muller, Griffin, Asness, and Weinstein had sown the seeds for the greatest financial disaster of all time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eBy unraveling the exploits of these four titans of number \u003cem\u003ecrunching, \"Billionaires' Great Minds: Billionaire Losses\"\u003c\/em\u003e reveals the behind-the-scenes story of the downfall of the quants, who watched much of their wealth evaporate with their hands tied. Ultimately, their brain-melting formulas and genius IQs led them down the wrong path. Could their years of success have been merely a matter of luck, fool's gold, a windfall that could have ended at any moment?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eBrilliant Minds, Billion-Dollar Heists\u003c\/em\u003e is both a masterpiece of investigative journalism and a thrilling tale of ambition and arrogance—a grim warning about the future of Wall Street.\u003c\/p\u003e \"","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159286563068,"sku":"9788576844693","price":89.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/44f13e8574194c14dcf59a678cefa4ef_08a3e153-033e-4af4-8898-1f2c2e70356b.jpg?v=1778320102"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.record.com.br\/en\/collections\/scott-patterson.oembed","provider":"Editora Record","version":"1.0","type":"link"}