I've been working with the Chicago Mercantile Exchange to create a futures market for single-family homes, which is sort of my connection to the futures industry.
India is a more mixed picture as mercantile families from a previous, more protectionist, era are hugely wealthy, but there are a sprinkling of new fortunes and young faces.
Cari Lynn, a young writer who spent two years as a clerk at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, finds a world populated by larger-than-life characters, high-stakes risk-taking, and excess in all its forms.