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Finance · 10 min

Flash Boys: The Invisible Architecture of Advantage

By Michael Lewis

Michael Lewis's 'Flash Boys' reveals how the very infrastructure of financial markets can create hidden advantages, challenging our assumptions of fairness. This episode dissects the invisible mechanisms that skew outcomes and the individuals who fought to expose them.

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Finance
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“Michael Lewis's 'Flash Boys' reveals how the very infrastructure of financial markets can create hidden advantages, challenging our assumptions of fairness. This episode dissects the invisible mechanisms that skew outcomes and the individuals who fought to expose them.”

— Michael Lewis, Flash Boys: The Invisible Architecture of Advantage

What it is about

trading, speed, finance

Who it is for

For those who suspect that financial markets are not as fair as they seem, this book offers a crucial lens to discern the hidden mechanisms of advantage, revealing how speed and infrastructure can subtly manipulate outcomes and empowering them to question established power structures.

The author

Michael Lewis, a master storyteller and investigative journalist, consistently illuminates the hidden forces and human dramas within complex systems, making him uniquely qualified to expose the unseen architecture of modern finance.

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Michael Lewis

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