Public stock markets are too small. This book is an effort to rescue public stock markets in the EU and the US. There should be more companies with publicly-traded shares and more direct share ownership. Anchored in a broad historical study of the regulation of stock markets and…
"Monkey Business is the hilarious confession of two young investment bankers, John Rolfe and Peter Troob, of what it's like at ground zero on The Street. Forget what you've read, forget what you've heard, forget what you've been taught. Monkey Business pulls off Wall Street's su…
Broken markets -- The curtain pulled back on high frequency trading -- Web of chaos -- Regulatory purgatory -- Regulatory hangover -- The arms merchants -- It's the data, stupid -- Heart of darkness -- Dude, where's my order? -- The flash crash, Part I: a day which will live in …
The markets have evolved at breakneck speed during the past decade, and change has accelerated dramatically since 2007's disastrous regulatory "reforms." An unrelenting focus on technology, hyper-short-term trading, speed, and volume has eclipsed sanity: markets have been hijack…