The Bond Market's Antihero

In The Bond King: How One Man Made a Market, Built an Empire, and Lost It All, co-host of NPR’s Planet Money podcast, Mary Childs investigates Bill Gross and pieces together his journey from a Vegas gambler, to business school educated finance guru, to founder of one of the most  powerful, secretive, and cutthroat investment firms in the United States. Childs uncovers how this American antihero helped reshape our country’s financial system in the aftermath of the Great Recession and shows how Gross is partially responsible for making it possible for so few to have so much. But Childs discovers that, like every antihero, his ambition would ultimately bring him down. Felix Salmon of Slate Money podcast says, “It has been a long time since I devoured a book just as assiduously as this… I was completely gripped and I loved it.”