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A Wall Street Revolt
W.W. Norton
April 2014
On Sale: March 31, 2014
289 pages
ISBN: 0393244660
EAN: 9780393244663
Kindle: B00HVJB4VM
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Non-Fiction
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 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,
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 different from what you think of when you think
“Wall Street guy.” 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 world’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
read. Here are people who have somehow preserved a moral
sense in an environment where you don’t get paid for that;
they have perceived an institutionalized injustice and are
willing to go to war to fix it.
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