Scott Patterson

About

Reporter and up-close observer of Wall Street since the late 1990s, currently based in Washington DC working on climate and energy policy. Check out my new book Chaos Kings: How Wall Street Traders Make Billions in the New Age of Crisis, out June 6. It's a profile of the rise of black swan traders such as Nassim Taleb and Mark Spitznagel, as well as a survey of the many perils the world faces today--and how we might fix them. I've covered everything from Berkshire Hathaway to stock exchanges to high-speed traders to the financial regulators. My first book, The Quants (2010), describes the rise of mathematical finance and delves into its role in the 2008 financial blowup. Dark Pools (2012), my second book, tells how computer traders took control of the U.S. stock market, starting from the birth of computer trading in the 1980s to the explosion of high-frequency trading in the late 2000s.