![]() ![]() ![]() This is a market that's rigged, out of control and out of sight a market in which the chief need is for speed and in which traders would sell their grandmothers for a microsecond. And the very few who do aren't about to tell - because they're making a killing. Even the experts entrusted with your cash don't know what's happening to it. Now, the world's money is traded by computer code, inside black boxes in heavily guarded buildings. ![]() If you thought Wall Street was about alpha males standing in trading pits hollering at each other, think again. Michael Lewis is back with Flash Boys, the headline-grabbing, game-changing international bestseller exposing the underworld of global finance The picture is built up from a bunch of smaller pictures – of post-crisis Wall Street of new kinds of financial cleverness of computers programmed to behave impersonally in ways that the programmer himself would never do personally of people, coming to Wall Street with one idea of what makes the place tick, only to find that it ticks rather differently than they had supposed. ![]()
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