"It never dawned on Doyne Farmer and Norman Packard - not when growing up together in the Southwest, not during their hippie grad-school days, not even when applying their collective genius in physics and mathematics to winning at roulette in Las Vegas - that someday they would end up as players, beating the Masters of the Universe from Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs at their own game. "--BOOK JACKET. "The Predictors is Thomas Bass's engrossing and often hilarious chronicle of how these two scientists - along with their team of T-shirted and ponytailed Ph. D. 's, and with the help of some very savvy financial gurus - attempted to decode and model the complex patterns underlying the apparently random movements of commodities, currency, and equities markets. On the dizzying ride from the Prediction Company's dusty office above a Santa Fe fortune-teller to the glittering towers of Wall Street, Farmer and Packard find themselves in the company of virtually every cowboy trader and rogue millionaire who ever tackled the market. Bass spins a tale of genius and greed, power brokers and rebels, all the while providing a brisk education in chaos, complexity, and the world financial markets. "--BOOK JACKET.