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Bernie Sanders

NYC_SKP

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3. People make money by doing nothing, the provide no products or tangible service. Tax them to hell.

Reply to aspirant (Original post)

Tue May 19, 2015, 07:28 PM

May 2015

Good show about that here:

Picture the scrum of the stock exchange -- the flurry of buying and selling, the split-second decisions that make and break fortunes. Then take out all the humans and accelerate everything until you literally can't keep up. Jad visits the inhumanly fast world of modern-day, high-speed trading with NPR's David Kestenbaum.

http://www.radiolab.org/story/267195-million-dollar-microsecond/