Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt

a Wall Street revolt

304 pages ; 21 cm, 320 pages

English language

Published March 23, 2015 by W. W. Norton & Company.

ISBN:
978-0-393-35159-0
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Finna ID:
3amk.267012

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In this book the author argues that post-crisis Wall Street continues to be controlled by large banks and explains how a small, diverse group of Wall Street men have banded together to reform the financial markets. A report on a high-tech predator stalking the equity markets, this book is about 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, they 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 are each completely different …

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Subjects

  • Stockbrokers United States.
  • Finance History United States 21st century.
  • meklarit
  • pörssit
  • rahoitusala
  • Wall Street (New York, N.Y.)