A review by mcbibliotecaria
Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt by Michael Lewis

5.0

You know when you hit a book funk where one bad books keeps you from reading others for a while, happened with my last one Pride and Prejudice rewritten supposedly to reflect modern times. Awful it was. So finally I was able to get back in the groove with this delightful, yep, short book on the details behind a very difficult to understand sector of the financial world, High Frequency Traders. I learned all about dark pools, how traders are incorporating themselves as weird middlemen who take even more money from their customers, and their customers don't even know it. And how one company out there is actually trying to lift the veil from these dark pools and trade honestly. I don't even get it, I don't get greed. Because IEX, the "Savior" in this book trading honestly, there still making billions of dollars, but developing all these back channels by monetizing milliseconds had made these too big to fail giants even richer. I don't get it! You can't take it with you! You can't buy extra time in this life with money, so why do you need more? Anyways, great book.