![]() ![]() ![]() “Flash Boys” is guaranteed to make blood boil. Lewis is at the helm finding clear, simple metaphors for even the most impenetrable financial minutiae, this tawdry tale should make sense to anyone. And it also explores the breakup of big, central stock exchanges into many small ones the impossibility of investors’ knowing exactly what is being done with their money and the immense new opportunities for skimming, kickbacks, secret fees and opacity that the new system has spawned.īecause Mr. “Flash Boys” describes the surreal-seeming technology that replaced it. ![]() Lewis summons that sweet old image of a trading floor full of screaming brokers, slamming telephones and hysteria-inducing ticker tape. At the start of “Flash Boys,” his dazzling, troublemaking new work of reportorial storytelling, Mr. Michael Lewis writes that before he began working on “Flash Boys,” he had little interest in the stock market, “though, like most people, I enjoy watching it go boom and crash.” And like most people, he had an antiquated notion of what the stock market was. ![]()
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