Thorndike Nonfiction: Flash Boys : A Wall Street Revolt (Hardcover)

from browner56

When most of us began trading stocks for our personal savings or retirement accounts, we probably thought that the quoted price was the only one at which we could buy or sell as many shares as we wanted. With a little experience, however, we soon learned that there are really two prices for every...

from Eyejaybee

I used to think I had a fair understanding of the ways of money and banking mechanisms (I was, after all a tax inspector for several years, and then helped to design tax efficient investment packages). This book did, however, swiftly disabuse me of that delusion, and Michael Lewis has pulled off ...

from bangerlm

I enjoyed this book a lot. I like how Michael Lewis can make a non-fiction book read like a Grisham thriller, though I did find it a bit repetitive in the middle. The one aspect of the story I was left wondering was who were the initial HFT who figured out how to game the system before the Wall S...

from AgneJakubauskaite

WHAT IS IT ABOUT? "Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt" by Michael Lewis is both an infuriating and uplifting true story about the U.S. stock market corruption in the twenty-first century and a handful of extraordinary individuals who, instead of benefiting from the rigged system like everyone else ...

from Parthurbook

Not Lewis' best, but better than most others writing CNF.