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Gregory Zuckerman, the bestselling author of The Greatest Trade Ever as well as the Frackers, answers the query investors have been asking for years: How did Jim Simons do it?

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Jim Simons is the greatest money maker in modern credit history. No other investor–Warren Buffett, Peter Lynch, Ray Dalio, Steve Cohen, or George Soros–can touch his record. Since 1988, Renaissance’s signature about The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution Medallion fund provides generated ordinary annual returns of 66 percent. The firm has earned income greater than $100 billion; Simons will probably be worth twenty-three billion dollars.

Sketching on unprecedented access to Simons and a large number of current and former employees, Zuckerman, a veteran Wall structure Street Journal investigative reporter, tells the gripping tale of how a world-class mathematician and former code breaker mastered the market. Simons pioneered a data-driven, algorithmic strategy that’s sweeping the world.

As Renaissance became market force, its executives began influencing the world beyond finance. Simons became a major figure in medical study, education, and liberal politics. Mature professional Robert Mercer can be more responsible than other people for the Trump presidency, placing Steve Bannon in the campaign and financing Trump’s victorious 2016 work. Mercer also impacted the campaign behind Brexit.

THE PERSON Who Solved the marketplace is a portrait of a modern-day Midas who remade marketplaces in his own image, but failed to anticipate how his success would impact his company and his country. It’s also a tale of what Simons’s revolution means for ordinary people.