Almost done with The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate.
Really good book if you are into history and geopolitics.
Also started Superfusion: How China and America Became One Economy and Why the World's Prosperity Depends on It.
Was written by a hedge fund manager who ran a China-US growth fund.
I bet you've either already read The Prize (Yergin) or would really enjoy it.
Have not read it, just ordered it off amazon.
Finally getting to the end of this 800 page monstrosity and they are talking about T Boone Pickens. I had never heard of the guy before he started throwing cash at OSU but he was/is a freaking baller.
He was a pretty small player up until the 80's when there was a surplus of Oil and Oil companies stocks were depressed and undervalued. XYZ Oil companies would have a market cap of say 300 million but proven reserves worth 900 million so he would buy the company. After a couple of times the big major oil companies caught on so he switched tactics.
The big whammy was when Gulf Oil was undervalued....He secretly bought around 25% of the shares of Gulf Oil when the price was around $40 and made a takeover bid at $62 a share. He knew that this was stupid low but it started a bidding war for Gulf Oil among the bigger oil companies and they were eventually bought out by Chevron at $80 a share....T Boone made a cool $760 million(pretax) on the deal.