Reg NMS was intended to create equality of opportunity in the U.S. stock market. Instead it institutionalized… — Michael Lewis
Reg NMS was intended to create equality of opportunity in the U.S. stock market. Instead it institutionalized a more pernicious inequality. A small class of insiders with the resources to create speed were now allowed to preview the market and trade on what they had seen.
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