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Former Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein on Why He Doesn't Tweet

Lloyd Blankfein was CEO of Goldman Sachs for more than a decade, riding the trading boom to the top of the storied investment bank and steering it through the 2008 financial crisis. In his new memoir, Streetwise: Getting To and Through Goldman Sachs, he writes about his journey f ...  Show more

How the Speed of a Trade Got Down to Nearly the Speed of Light

The average person can enter a stock trade on their computer, hit refresh, and the trade is done. As fast as that seems, there are professional traders moving even faster, executing thousands of trades per second. Over the years, the need for speed got so intense that competing f ...  Show more

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