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Fictional Thriller Tackles Dangers of High-Frequency Trading

Clip: 3/15/2012 | 8m 22s

Fictional Thriller Tackles Dangers of High-Frequency Trading

Part of his series on Making $ense of financial news, economics correspondent Paul Solman spoke with author Robert Harris whose fictional take on Wall Street, "The Fear Index," stresses the dangers of algorithm-driven, high-frequency trading.

03/15/2012

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