The Infrastructural Mystery at the End of Michael Lewis’s Flash Boys

The Infrastructural Mystery at the End of Michael Lewis's Flash Boys

What an awesome way to end a book: literally in the last paragraph, Michael Lewis’s excellent Flash Boys drops a weird infrastructural mystery—and this gives away no spoilers—right when you were ready to turn out the light and go to sleep. But there, in the final six sentences, Lewis lights a fire.

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NY Is Cracking Down on High Frequency Trading Tech That Runs the NYSE

NY Is Cracking Down on High Frequency Trading Tech That Runs the NYSE

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman vowed today to crack down on the technology that gives high frequency traders an unfair advantage in the market. And that’s a very good thing for regular humans with money in the marketplace.

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