@article{352909,
      recid = {352909},
      author = {Goodman, Leah McGrath.},
      title = {The asylum : the renegades who hijacked the world's oil  market  /},
      publisher = {William Morrow,},
      address = {New York, NY :},
      pages = {xvii, 398 p., [8] p. of plates :},
      year = {2011},
      note = {Includes index.},
      abstract = {They were a band of outsiders unable to get jobs with New  York's gilded financial establishment. They would go on to  corner the world's oil market, reaping unimaginable riches  while bringing the economy to its knees. Meet the New York  Mercantile Exchange--a secretive, members-only club of men  and women who live lavish lifestyles; cavort with  politicians, strippers, and celebrities; and blissfully  jacked up oil prices to nearly $150 a barrel while  profiting off the misery of the working class. Many come  from working-class families themselves--the progeny of  immigrants who escaped war-torn Europe, they take pride in  spurning Wall Street. Under an all-powerful oil cartel, the  energy market had long eluded the grasp of America's hungry  capitalists, but the rough-and-tumble traders of Nymex went  after this Goliath and won, creating the world's first free  oil market. Their stunning journey from poverty to  prosperity belies the brutal and violent history that is  their legacy.--From publisher description.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/352909},
}