Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt — How Speed Became a Market Advantage
What happens when the difference between seeing a market and acting on it is measured in millionths of a second?
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Using Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt by Michael Lewis as our lens, this episode investigates how automation transformed the U.S. stock market into a fragmented network of exchanges, dark pools, algorithms, data centers, and private information channels.
Lewis follows Brad Katsuyama and others as they discover that orders sent across supposedly interconnected markets can arrive at different times…
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