When
Tuesday, December 3rd, from 9am - 11:30am GMT / 8pm-9:30pm AEDTWhere
Online via Zoom.Format
There'll be a great line-up of speakers plus ample scope for discussion and debate.About the book...
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 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: renowned author Kate Jennings, international banking insider Ian Shepherd, Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling, German-born World War II historian Sigrid MacRae, J.P. Morgan deputy chair Roberto Mendoza – and his dog, Stanley.
In the tradition of Michael Lewis’s Flash Boys and The Big Short, Alice is a story of ground-breaking insights, legal intrigue and improbable friendships. Pinpointing the likely causes of the next financial crisis, Alice reveals the fight to build a safer, fairer financial future.
About the author...
STUART KELLS
Stuart Kells is an award-winning author whose books have been published around the world. He has twice won the Ashurst Business Literature Prize, and has been shortlisted for the Australian Prime Minister’s Literary Award, the NSW Premier’s General History Prize (twice) and the University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award. Stuart’s shorter pieces have appeared in The Paris Review, LitHub, Lapham’s Quarterly, Smithsonian Magazine, The Guardian, National Geographic Traveller and The Daily Beast. He is Adjunct Professor at La Trobe University’s College of Arts, Social Sciences and Commerce.