The Shadow Market: How Sovereign Wealth Funds Secretly Dominate the Global Economy - Softcover

'Disturbing... Weiner succeeds in making the case that something fundamental has changed in the world with the rise of Eastern and Middle Eastern economies, and that is worth paying attention to.' --The New York Times Book Review

'Weiner out-hustles the global influence peddlers.' --Vanity Fair

'Alarming... A bleak survey of how flush authoritarian governments deploy financial means to achieve geopolitical ends.' --Bloomberg Business Week

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.