| Title |
Flash boys : : revolta em Wall Street
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| Names |
Lewis, Michael.
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Bottmann, Denise. Translator
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| Book Number |
DB128941
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| Title Status |
In Process
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| Language |
Portuguese
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| Annotation |
"Flash Boys is about a small group of Wall Street guys who figure out that the US 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 each other, 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 story. 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 institutionalized injustice and are willing to go to war to fix it." -- Provided by publisher. -- Unrated. Commercial audiobook. Portuguese language.
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"Todo mundo imagina as bolsas de valores mais ou menos da mesma forma: pessoas nervosas na sala do pregão, gritando sem parar, agitando braços e empunhando telefones. Mas essa imagem já era. Agora, as negociações são realizadas por programas de computador, dentro de caixas-pretas localizadas em edifícios cercados de forte proteção. A cada dia, bilhões e bilhões de dólares circulam pelas redes de fibra óptica sem sequer passar por um corretor de carne e osso. Nem mesmo os especialistas a quem os investidores confiam seu dinheiro sabem o que acontece com ele. E os pouquíssimos que sabem preferem ficar quietos--porque estão fazendo fortunas. O mercado financeiro atual, descontrolado e invisível, concebido para beneficiar apenas algumas pessoas, segue uma única lei: a velocidade. Tudo pode mudar num piscar de olhos, e há corretores que venderiam a própria avó em troca de um microssegundo de vantagem. Em Flash Boys, Michael Lewis revela como um punhado de indivíduos excêntricos e brilhantes está determinado a expor a verdade ao público. Esta é a história surpreendente de como um pequeno grupo decidiu enfrentar todo o sistema e declarar guerra contra algumas das pessoas mais ricas e poderosas do mundo." -- Fornecida pela editora. Traduzido da edição em inglês de 2014. Sem classificação. Audiolivro comercial.
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| Medium |
Digital Books
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| Local Subject |
Unrated - UNRAT
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Business & Office Management - 650
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Titles in Portuguese - POR
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Economics - Financial - 332
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Economics - 330
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| LC Subject |
Finance - United States - History - 21st century
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Stockbrokers - United States
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Wall Street (New York, N.Y.)
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Nonfiction
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Creative nonfiction
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| Call Number |
332.62092273 ANF
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| Publication Info |
Washington, D.C. : National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled, Library of Congress,
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| Original Publication |
Reissue of: [Place of publication not identified] : Audible Studios, [2022]
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