Flash Boys (Wall Street Revolt)

Flash Boys (Wall Street Revolt)

From the #1 bestselling author of The Blind Side and Moneyball

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 each other, the flash boys band together and set out to reform the financial markets. This they do by creating an exchange in which high-frequency tradingâ€”source of the most intractable problemsâ€”will have no advantage whatsoever.

The characters in Flash Boys are fabulous, each completely different from what you think of when you think â€œWall Street guy.â€ Several have walked away from jobs in the financial sector that paid them millions of dollars a year. From their new vantage point they investigate the big banks, the worldâ€™s stock exchanges, and high-frequency trading firms as they have never been investigated, and expose the many strange new ways that Wall Street generates profits.

The light that Lewis shines into the darkest corners of the financial world may not be good for your blood pressure, because if you have any contact with the market, even a retirement account, this story is happening to you. But in the end, Flash Boys is an uplifting story. Here are people who have somehow preserved a moral sense in an environment where you donâ€™t get paid for that; they have perceived an institutionalized injustice and are willing to go to war to fix it.
Country USA
Manufacturer Simon & Schuster Audio
Binding Audio CD
ReleaseDate 2014-03-31
UnitCount 1
Format Audiobook
EANs 9781442370272

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster Audio
Binding	Audio CD
ReleaseDate	2014-03-31
UnitCount	1
Format	Audiobook
EANs	9781442370272

Flash Boys (Wall Street Revolt)

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