Michael Lewis’ Latest Sweeping Critique Of Wall Street

Michael Lewis upset a lot of people on Wall Street with his latest book, Flash Boys, and the media campaign that went along with it, and just in case he left anyone out he’s painted Wall Street in broad strokes as corrupt conformists who struggle to make lasting attachments. “Not everyone on Wall Street does stuff that would have horrified them, had it been described to them in plain English, when they were 20,” he writes on BloombergView. “But enough do that it makes you wonder. What happens between then and now?” Lewis compares the market to coin-flipping Every industry,…