BY JIM HIGHTOWER Have you heard about High Frequency Trading? Get ready to be dazzled! HFT is sweeping, purely speculative financial transactions that have been made possible by huge leaps in technology. Done by super-fast computers, using mathematical algorithms, HFT searches millions of prices at lightning speeds and places bets automatically. Transaction times are measured in milliseconds, as the global network of “trading robots” never sleeps, and its sole function is to allow the wealthiest […]

A Financial Transaction Tax On High Frequency Traders
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