Sex Greed Calamity
Das Kapital, Viken Berberian, 2007
On the following day, when fuller reports came in, the market began to slide off, but even then not as violently as it should. Knowing that nothing under the sun could stave off a substantial break I doubled up and sold five thousand shares…I wasn’t plunging recklessly. I was realy playing conservatively. There was nothing that anyone could do to undo the earthquake, was there? They couldn’t restore the crumbling buildings overnight, free, gratis, for nothing, could they? All the money in the world couldn’t help much in the next few hours, could it?…Edwin Lefevre Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
As the World Trade Center fell, I was thinking what this would do to the price of gold and the money my clients would make. Wall Street commodities trader from the Documentary The Corporation.
We call them Plutonomies, countries characterized by capitalist-friendly governments and tax regimes, constant technological innovation, financial innovation, the rule of law and patent protection, … some sort of social contract most… have bought into. Bloomburg article explaining Ajay Kapur’s term Plutonomy.
Marseille 
This novel centers around a love triangle. The woman is French, living in Marseille and studying architecture. She is obsessed with the architecture and structural details of landmark buildings around the world. Her sometime lover is an unemployed Corsican lumberjack and she flirts via email and provides design details of landmarks with a New York Wall Street tycoon.
Corsica 
The Greenspanism spouting tycoon and his company specializes in profiting from man made and natural disasters and the panic they engender. He only bets on falling markets. He has recently helped put a Corsican corrigated paper company into bankrupsy, hence the unemployed Corsican lumberjack. The Corsican, who has some experience in anarchist activities, approaches the tycoon for a job and together they plan a scheme blow up landmark buildings to create their own market panics. They blow the Tokyo Stock Exchange and other buildings but go too far when they blow up Gordon Brown. With details of how markets operate, mathematical analysis, and Gloomsburg market information, this one is informative, humorous, and a somehow tragic view of our new global world.
Greenspan and Brown 