Los Amos del Mundo / Arturo P rez-Reverte (Rule of the Spanish writer Arturo P rez-Reverte, published in 'The Week' on 15 November 1998, and now, ten years later seems a vision of Nostradamus). You do not know, but depends on them.You do not know or the cross in his life, but those sons of bitches have in their hands, in the electronic calendar, the Enter key on your computer, your future and your children. You do not know which side they have, but it is they who are going to send the strike on behalf of a three point seven, or a probability index of zero point zero four. You have nothing to do with these dudes because it is a hardware store clerk or cashier Pryca, and they studied at Harvard and did a Masters in Tokyo, or vice versa, are in the morning to the London Stock Exchange or Wall Street and say things in English as long-term capital management, and talk of hedge funds, multilateral agreements on investment and economic neoliberalism wild, like someone said Sunday's game.You do not know or painting, but those circulating suicide drivers and two hundred per hour in a van loaded with money going to hit him when least expected, and did not even have the consolation of going in a wheelchair with a cut to blowing their eggs because they have no public face, despite being renowned analysts, sharks of finance, prestigious experts in other people's money. As experts who always end up doing yours. Because whenever they win, they win and never lose them when they lose. They do not create wealth but to speculate. Lavish combinations into the world of financial economics that have nothing to do with the productive economy. Boost house of cards and secured by mirages and smoky, and the mighty of the Earth lose their ass for them and jump on the bandwagon coba. This can not fail, they say. Nobody here is going to lose. The risk is minimal. The Nobel laureates endorse the Economy, financial journalists prestigious international group of recognized acronyms.And then the president of the bank as trans, and the president of the union of Swiss banks and the bank capitoste Latin American and Asian / European consortium, and the mother who bore them all, happily embark on the adventure, put chip through a pipe, and then sit to wait for that pitch that will further lining to all of them and their clients. Gregg Hymowitz And as the first operation goes well and they are risking more in the second, which is cushy cushy, and interests of a gazillion percent are not everyday. And even that illusion speculator has nothing to do with the real economy, with the daily life of people in the street, everything is euphoria, and pats on the back, and to undertake their banking official foreign exchange reserves. And this, gentlemen, is clover. And suddenly it does not. Suddenly it turns out that the invention had its failures, and high risk that was not a phrase but just that: high risk of verdad.Y then the whole shebang is going to take the sack.And those special funds, dangerous, increasingly carry more weight in the global economy, showing its black side. And then, oh, wonder!, While the benefits were for sharks that controlled the roost and those who speculate with money from others, is that losses, no.