Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt
by Michael Lewis
Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt by Michael Lewis holds a highly rated rating of 4.12 out of 5, based on 18.4K reader ratings. First published in 2014. The book spans 288 pages.
About Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt
Four years after his #1 bestseller The Big Short, Michael Lewis returns to Wall Street to report on a high-tech predator stalking the equity markets.Flash Boys is about a small group of Wall Street guys who figure out that the U.S. stock market has been rigged for the benefit of insiders and that, post–financial crisis, the markets have become not more free but less, and more controlled by the big Wall Street banks. Working at different firms, they come to this realization separately; but after they discover one another, the flash boys band together and set out to reform the financial markets. This they do by creating an exchange in which high-frequency trading—source of the most intractable problems—will have no advantage whatsoever.The characters in Flash Boys are fabulous, each completely different from what you think of when you think “Wall Street guy.” Several have walked away from jobs in the financial sector that paid them millions of dollars a year. From their new vantage point they investigate the big banks, the world’s stock exchanges, and high-frequency trading firms as they have never been investigated, and expose the many strange new ways that Wall Street generates profits.The light that Lewis shines into the darkest corners of the financial world may not be good for your blood pressure, because if you have any contact with the market, even a retirement account, this story is happening to you. But in the end, Flash Boys is an uplifting read. Here are people who have somehow preserved a moral sense in an environment where you don’t get paid for that; they have perceived an institutionalized injustice and are willing to go to war to fix it.
| Detail | Value |
|---|---|
| Author | Michael Lewis |
| Published | 2014 |
| Pages | 288 |
| Genres | Business, Non-Fiction, History, Fiction, Biography & Memoir |
| Average Rating | 4.12 / 5.00 |
| Total Ratings | 18,379 |
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What genre is Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt?
Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt is categorized as Business, Non-Fiction, History, Fiction. Its primary genre classification is Biography & Memoir.
Is Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt worth reading?
Based on 18.4K reader ratings, Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt has an average score of 4.12 out of 5.00, which is considered "Highly Rated."
How many pages is Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt?
Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt has 288 pages.
Who wrote Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt?
Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt was written by Michael Lewis. It was first published in 2014.
What is the ISBN for Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt?
The ISBN-13 for Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt is 9780393244660.0.
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