this is just a boondoggle… for a change it will be short! Jon Stewart is interviewing Michael Lewis and talking about predatory behaviour in the stock market… as Jon just said, “it’s not fair, American or capitalism”. High frequency traders are now the new everyday evil people…
I trade for fun in my spare time and know all the lingo so this is fascinating for me… and I see all the silly games the alpha males play as they pound their chests and pay cash for their Maseratis… I’m the kind of girl who told some hedge fund guy I met in a bar in the Meatpacking District during the height of the financial crisis, “oh, you work for a hedge fund… so you aren’t just a little bit evil… you are REALLY evil”… but he was from Kentucky and at heart not evil…
but also not as good at holding his bourbon so I ended up dropping him off at his apartment on the Upper West Side and then convincing the immigrant taxi driver that I just needed him to drop me back at the Standard, his company not part of the deal…
So, I am a bit of an alpha female 🙂 I can beat the high frequency traders, Wall Street and the random idiots in Silicon Valley… I don’t need Michael Lewis to save my ass. But it’s interesting… and apparently some Dudley Do-Right Canadian dude at RBC started the ball rolling…
so I am intrigued… I’ve spent all of prime time watching American actors kill people with guns… it’s exciting… but remember that most of the greatest heroes didn’t have a glock… they had a brain… what kind of hero do you want to be? 😉
http://business.financialpost.com/2014/03/31/flash-boys-former-rbc-trader-hero-of-michael-lewiss-new-book-on-how-u-s-stock-markets-are-rigged/
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the hero is canadian…. ;)
this is just a boondoggle… for a change it will be short! Jon Stewart is interviewing Michael Lewis and talking about predatory behaviour in the stock market… as Jon just said, “it’s not fair, American or capitalism”. High frequency traders are now the new everyday evil people…
I trade for fun in my spare time and know all the lingo so this is fascinating for me… and I see all the silly games the alpha males play as they pound their chests and pay cash for their Maseratis… I’m the kind of girl who told some hedge fund guy I met in a bar in the Meatpacking District during the height of the financial crisis, “oh, you work for a hedge fund… so you aren’t just a little bit evil… you are REALLY evil”… but he was from Kentucky and at heart not evil…
but also not as good at holding his bourbon so I ended up dropping him off at his apartment on the Upper West Side and then convincing the immigrant taxi driver that I just needed him to drop me back at the Standard, his company not part of the deal…
So, I am a bit of an alpha female 🙂 I can beat the high frequency traders, Wall Street and the random idiots in Silicon Valley… I don’t need Michael Lewis to save my ass. But it’s interesting… and apparently some Dudley Do-Right Canadian dude at RBC started the ball rolling…
so I am intrigued… I’ve spent all of prime time watching American actors kill people with guns… it’s exciting… but remember that most of the greatest heroes didn’t have a glock… they had a brain… what kind of hero do you want to be? 😉
http://business.financialpost.com/2014/03/31/flash-boys-former-rbc-trader-hero-of-michael-lewiss-new-book-on-how-u-s-stock-markets-are-rigged/
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