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CIO 的见解 are written by Angeles' CIO 迈克尔罗森
Michael has more than 35 years experience as an institutional portfolio manager, 投资策略师, 交易员和学者.
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炉边阅读
发表:02-08-2022It’s beach weather in LA this week, but in deference to the rest of the country, we’ll stay with 炉边阅读. Three amazing novels 和 one fast-paced nonfiction romp through the world of commodities. 享受!
《yabo亚博网站登录》,达蒙·高古特
This is a saga of the Swart family over three decades of tumult, tragedy 和 transition in South Africa. The four chapters cover four funerals of family members, exploring the family drama that each death brings forth. 在这个层面上, 承诺 is an elegant, moving character portrait of a family in (literal) decline. 在这个层面上, the novel resonates deeply, each character so perfectly developed 和 recognizable. 但这是南非, 和 this family’s story takes place amid the backdrop of apartheid 和 renewal, truth 和 reconciliation 和 lingering bitterness. Galgut beautifully renders each aspect of transition, for the Swart family 和 for the nation. Galgut seamlessly moves from one character perspective to another, reminiscent of Faulkner. This is an extraordinary work.
The Death of Comrade President, Alain Mabanckou
Alain Mabanckou grew up in Congo (he now teaches at UCLA), 和 his books are often autobiographical, capturing life in the 1970s through the lens of boy. 叙述者, 米歇尔, is an observant 13-year-old, watching 和 listening to the absurdities of life 和 the adults that run it. The h和ful of characters is sharply drawn: his parents, 同学们, 和, 特别是, the woman who runs a small market shop. When a military coup kills the current president, as announced on the radio, 米歇尔’s world is altered forever, although he won’t know it till the end of the book. The Death of Comrade President is as much a wonderful study of characters as a comment on the absurdity of politics 和 coups. Mabanckou is a distinguished writer, recipient of numerous awards, as he proves in The Death of Comrade President.
W的情歌.E.B. D木香, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
This is an extraordinary book, an epic in every sense: an 800-page saga of a family 和 its l和 over the centuries. The chapters move among the various generations to inhabit a small piece of l和 in Georgia, beginning with the native Creeks, displaced by white settlers 和, 最终, 他们的奴隶. Jeffers creates the most tangible characters, brilliantly capturing their language 和 cadence, 思想和感受, 和 their attachment to their l和. Jeffers weaves in the philosophy of W.E.B. 杜波依斯, the “Double Consciousness” of African Americans through the ages, 对话和辩论, shedding light on their unique history 和 struggles 和 resilience. Jeffers calls this a Black Feminist novel, 和 it is. 但它远不止于此. Jeffers writes like the poet she is, perfectly capturing the place 和 people of rural Georgia over five centuries. 800页之后, I did not want to leave Chicasetta, 虚构的小镇, or any of the people I felt like I came to know intimately. I run out of superlatives for this wonderful, beautiful work.
世界待售, Javier Blas 和 Jack Farchy
Fascinating recent history of the middlemen who source 和 trade commodities, with larger-than-life characters, 包括马克·里奇, the American fugitive who spawned some of the biggest trading houses today after his ouster from his eponymous firm. 在早期, post-WW2, these middlemen were the only ones willing to take business (和 personal) risks in the Soviet Union, communist Europe 和 in the heart of Africa. The rise of China in 2001 led to a decade of profits by these traders that exceeded even the combined profits of Apple 和 Coca-Cola. The fine line between business 和 corruption was crossed frequently, but often these illegal trades served the purposes of the rich world, providing a lifeline to the Kurds or Libyan rebels, 例如. 主要是, the story is one of the extraordinary personalities who built 和 dominated commodity trading for two generations, 记录, 在快节奏的散文中, 一个时代已经过去.
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