Flash Boys

Blurb

HardCover. Pub Date :2014-03-31 Pages: 256 Language: English Publisher: WWNorton Four years after his # 1 bestseller The Big Short. Michael Lewis returns to Wall Street to report on a high-tech predator stalking the equity markets. Flash Boys is about a small group of Wall Street guys who figure out that the US 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 trading-source of the most intractable problems-will have no advantage whatsoever. The characters in Flash Boys are fabulous. each completely d...