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Chaos Kings: How Wall Street Traders Make Billions in the New Age of Crisis by Scott Patterson is a nonfiction business and finance book that examines how certain traders and investors try to profit from extreme market shocks. Drawing on Patterson’s experience as a Wall Street Journal reporter, the book follows the world of tail-risk trading, where the central idea is not to predict every crisis, but to position for rare disasters that markets tend to underestimate. It focuses especially on the competing views of Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Didier Sornette, two influential figures who represent different theories of whether catastrophic events are fundamentally unpredictable or can be modeled and anticipated. The book also uses the rise of firms such as Universa to show how crisis hedging works in practice. More than a trading story, it is an inquiry into uncertainty, market psychology, and the financial value of events that appear abnormal until they suddenly reshape the economy.