“The world clings to its old mental picture of the stock market because it’s comforting; because it’s so hard to draw a picture of what has replaced it; and because the few people able to draw it for you have no interest in doing so.”

— Michael Lewis, book Flash Boys

Source: Flash Boys (2014), p. 4

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