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Three Passages From Akerlof & Romer’s 1993 Article That Should Have Prevented The Crisis

This is the first installment of a series of articles about the media, finance industry, political, and Department of Justice (DOJ) reaction to Michael Lewis’ new book about high frequency trading (HFT). The media ballyhooed the book as if it were an amazing revelation of a fact of surpassing importance. The industry demonized the book and Lewis. DOJ immediately announced it had begun a criminal investigation and the SEC it had multiple investigations pending. Whether the industry or Lewis is correct about HFT practices (which he asserts are lawful) is unimportant for some purposes. My series will focus on the difference between the frenzied DOJ, political, and media reaction to Lewis’ criticism of allegedly lawful HFT practices and the “yawn” reaction of these same groups to the vastly more damaging criminal frauds runs by our elite financial leaders that caused the financial crisis is astronomical, ludicrous, and disastrous.

High-Frequency Trading: Game the System and Get Rich in Just 8 Simple Steps

I don’t know about you, but I’m ordering Michael Lewis’ new book “Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt” and I’m ordering it today.

Of course, Michael Lewis is the author of two of the biggest-selling books ever written about Wall Street: “Liar’s Poker” (1990), an autobiographical portrait of excessively greedy bond traders during the 1980s, and “The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine” (2010), which chronicles the housing bubble that led to the Great Recession in 2007.

The post High-Frequency Trading: Game the System and Get Rich in Just 8 Simple Steps appeared first on Money Morning – Only the News You Can Profit From.

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