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. (Michael Lewis (author))

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.

Michael Lewis (author)

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