The Flash Boys: Rebels in Search of a Cause

Michael Lewis tells a great story in his new book but it’s more flash than fact.

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The U.S. stock market is rigged. The U.S. stock market is rigged. That’s the central message of Michael Lewis’s latest book, Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt, the tale of Brad Katsuyama and an unlikely group of heroes as they discover that high frequency traders, exchanges and big banks are conspiring to rip off billions of dollars in...

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