Chapters 14 and 15 Summary and Analysis

Chapter 14

Rich was unconcerned with the personal behavior of his traders. Many were young and partied heavily and consumed their shares of drugs and alcohol. Rich also did not care what steps his traders had to take to close a deal. Many of the traders bragged about making bribes yet staying out of jail. Rich's core team of traders dubbed themselves the Heavy Metal Kids. Within a year after Rich established his company, there were over twenty Kids in the trading group. These traders were given the opportunity of partying with customers at a posh gathering in London each year.

One Kid got wound up in an impending rebellion in Zaire's Shaba Province. Since sixty-five percent of the world's cobalt is mined there, the trader managed to hoard a huge amount of the ore. After the unrest settled down...