{"product_id":"blood-algorithms-how-death-fuels-wall-street-profits-9798273153776","title":"Blood Algorithms: How Death Fuels Wall Street Profits","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Jack S. Martin\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: White Collar Crime\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis isn't the trading floor of the movies. It's something quieter, faster, and infinitely more predatory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen a 7.8 magnitude earthquake shatters a city, a new pandemic spreads across a continent, or a nation teeters on the brink of war, the first responders are no longer medics. They are algorithms.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInvestigative journalist Jack S. Martin pulls back the curtain on the \"death trade\" a shadow economy where quantitative hedge funds use high-speed \"blood algorithms\" to predict and monetize human misery.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlood Algorithms\u003c\/i\u003e takes you inside the sterile, ozone-scented rooms where \"quants\"-PhDs in astrophysics and math, not finance-build the systems that trade on our collective demise.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInside this chilling expos�, you'll discover: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e* \u003cb\u003eThe Vulture's Gaze: \u003c\/b\u003e How algorithms \"smell fear\" by scraping social media panic, satellite imagery, and even seismic sensor data to execute trades before a human can even read the news.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Architects of Ruin: \u003c\/b\u003e Meet the programmers who \"backtest\" their models on historical tragedies like the Rwandan genocide, turning human suffering into an optimized data set.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWar, Incorporated: \u003c\/b\u003e The new arms race where algorithms analyze troop movements and drone strike data in real-time to bet on defense contracts and currency collapse .\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe \"Automated Insider's Edge\" \u003c\/b\u003e How \"mosaic theory\" allows algorithms to piece together thousands of public clues to reveal a secret non-public truth, blurring the line with illegal insider trading.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe New Feudalism: \u003c\/b\u003e How the \"latency tax\" and \"Payment for Order Flow\" (PFOF) create a hidden, high-speed tax on every 401(k) and retail investor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis isn't about a few rogue traders. This is the new architecture of modern finance -a system that sees a pandemic not as a tragedy, but as a volatility event\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47594287595671,"sku":"9798273153776","price":1358.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798273153776.webp?v=1774985415","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/blood-algorithms-how-death-fuels-wall-street-profits-9798273153776","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}