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Flash boys a Wall Street revolt

"A small group of Wall Street guys who figure out that the U.S. stock market has been rigged for the benefit of insiders and that, post-financial crisis, the markets have become not more free but less, and more controlled by the big Wall Street banks. Working at different firms, they come to th...

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Main Author: Lewis, Michael
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2014
Edition: First edition.
Subjects:
Stockbrokers > United States.
Finance > United States > History > 21st century.
Wall Street (New York, N.Y.)
Summary: "A small group of Wall Street guys who figure out that the U.S. stock market has been rigged for the benefit of insiders and that, post-financial crisis, the markets have become not more free but less, and more controlled by the big Wall Street banks. Working at different firms, they come to this realization separately; but after they discover one another, the flash boys band together and set out to reform the financial markets. This they do by creating an exchange in which high-frequency traditing -- source of the most intractable problems -- will have no advantage whatsoever."--Book jacket.
Physical Description: 274 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780393244663 (hbk.)
0393244660 (hbk.)
Author Notes: Michael Lewis was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on October 15, 1960. He received a BA in art history from Princeton University in 1982 and a Masters in economics from the London School of Economics in 1985. He is a non-fiction author/journalist of mostly financial themes. His books include Liar's Poker, Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game, The Money Culture, Boomerang, Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine and The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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