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Product Identifiers
PublisherNorton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-100393244660
ISBN-139780393244663
eBay Product ID (ePID)201633780
Product Key Features
Book TitleFlash Boys
Number of Pages304 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicFinance / General, Economic Conditions, Investments & Securities / General
Publication Year2014
GenreBusiness & Economics
AuthorMichael Lewis
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight19.7 Oz
Item Length9.5 in
Item Width6.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2014-003208
Dewey Edition23
Reviews[Lewis's] ability to find compelling characters and tell a great story through their eyes is unparalleled. He can untangle complex subjects like few others. His prose sparkles., Important to public debate about Wall Street... in exposing what one of his central characters calls the 'Pandora's box of ridiculousness' that financial exchanges have become., Lewis, as always, is exceedingly good at describing the complexities and absurdities of the subculture he portrays here... A deeply entertaining book, and one that illuminates how much our world has changed in less than a decade., Remarkable... Michael Lewis has a spellbinding talent for finding emotional dramas in complex, highly technical subjects., When it comes to narrative skill, a reporter's curiosity and an uncanny instinct for the pulse of the zeitgeist, Lewis is a triple threat., Flash Boys richly deserves to be the first chapter in a new discussion of market rules and abuses... Lewis raises troubling and necessary questions., Lewis writes about the resilience of underdogs, even in the face of seemingly overwhelming odds. He's doing essential work, and anything that embarrasses fat cats and encourages reform is a flash in the right direction., Entirely engaging... Illuminates a part of Wall Street that has generally done business in the shadows., In 24 hours, I plowed through Michael Lewis' new blockbuster Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt, a book about the huge changes that have occurred in financial markets in the last three decades. It's compelling reading., Michael Lewis is a genius, and his book will give high-frequency trading a much-neededturn under the microscope., Michaux excels in making us feel... the strangeness of natural things and the naturalness of strange things.
Dewey Decimal332.6092273
SynopsisFour 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., 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., 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.
LC Classification NumberHG4628.5L49 2014
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- Aug 17, 2021
Very entertaining & fascinating - we're all being robbed by a rigged stock market
Utterly fascinating - and demoralizing.... this proves beyond a doubt the stock market is rigged and you & I are having to pay Extra on every stock share we buy. Beyond that Michael Lewis is the most entertaining and incisive writer writing about Wall Street; no one is in his league.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- Aug 06, 2018
Awesome book
Love thise book. One of my favorites. Easy to read without the financial jargon that typical people might find hard to understand. Great reading bookVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- Jul 17, 2019
good title
if your interested in the shenanigans of high frequency trading and its impact on how the exchanges run you will enjoy itVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- Sep 10, 2019
flash
excellent bookVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- Feb 17, 2021
A quick read, that arrived on time
Arrived Quick, and undamaged. Good book so far. Good BuyVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- Jun 29, 2021
Good book
Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- Jun 03, 2024
Nice item thank you
Nice item thank youVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- Nov 30, 2020
Great book
Love the book!Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- Mar 19, 2019
Stock Market Read
Great read for someone starting with stocks!!!Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- Jan 12, 2016
Fantastic read
Must see!Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
