Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt

by Michael Lewis

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393244660
• ISBN13: 9780393244663
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Opens the door on a closed world.

Anyone that wants a plain language review on what has been going on in the stockmarket, this is it! Very well written.