Author: Michael Lewis
- Fiction
- Editorial Paidós
- ISBN: 9786078406128
- Release Date: 02-03-2015
Synopsis
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 nstitutionalized injustice and are willing to go to war to fix it.
Verano de 2009. El FBI detiene a Sergey Aleynikov, un extrabajador de Goldman Sachs acusado de robar el código fuente de su antigua empresa. A Aleynikov, programador de operaciones comerciales de alta frecuencia, se le niega la libertad bajo fianza alegando que, de caer en malas manos, el código robado puede usarse para manipular los mercados de forma injusta. ¿Significa esto que las manos de Goldman Sachs son las buenas? Si Goldman puede manipular los mercados, ¿pueden también hacerlo otros bancos? ¿Por qué el código que permite operar a Goldman Sachs es tan importante que cuando descubrió que un empleado lo había copiado, la empresa decidió llamar nada menos que al FBI? Si este código es tan valioso y peligroso para los mercados financieros, ¿cómo pudo obtenerlo alguien que había trabajado en la empresa apenas dos años? Y a todo esto, ¿qué son las operaciones comerciales de alta frecuencia y por qué se han convertido en la última revolución de Wall Street? Michael Lewis decidió que era hora de encontrar respuesta a estas preguntas y su búsqueda lo llevó a la sala acristalada de un rascacielos neoyorquino. Allí conoció a los flash boys. Ésta es su historia.
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