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Host youre watching booktv on cspan2, and now joins us live is the author of flash boys. Michael lewis, what is a flash boy . Guest the heroes of the book are the flash boys, and theyre people that discover the stock markets got something funny going on and seek to find out what it is and then build a mechanism to prevent predators in the stock market from getting to prey. Its called flash boys for a couple of reasons, actually. One is that the solution that the main characters come up with requires them to be faster than the highspeed traders who are the predators in the stock market. So they...

Been exposed that the problem can be dealt with. The regulatory process can do the things it needs to do which isnt necessarily introduce one new regulation. You see what happens with a very wellmeaning regulation. I think the two things that people in congress who are concerned with this issue and regulators should always keep in mind is that everything should be in the direction of increasing transparency, genuine transparency not the radical transparency where people will know what is happening rather than digging through 800 documents. Actual transparency and two being very sensitive to th...

Thus, the need to have contract chaplains. Due to the shortage, it is common for the government to employ chaplains via contract. With the Government Shutdown, contact members on the world wide aces are not permitted to work, not even permitted to volunteer, even if they are the only chaplain on base. As my friend from South Carolina mentioned, the research is on basic freedoms being had around here and just within this area, at langley at the navy yard, at ft. Belvoir, these are all areas in which these have artie been cut back, and that is a shame. I am grateful to my colleagues who joined m...

Except us. President s out of town. Vice president s out of town. The house and the senate are all out of town as are most lobbyists and staffers and anybody with any sense, obviously we dont have any. Big news today on the Law Enforcement area in the Law Enforcement area on three different fronts. First of all, attorney general eric holder says correctly that too many people are in prison for too long for offenses which dont deserve any prison time and he calls for changing our sentencing laws so prison is only reserved for the most serious offenses. A new york judge has said that new york ci...

Backs, in history, winning twice setting up todays winner take all. Usa usa has won seven in a row, and only twice before in the 162year history of the americas cup has there been a winner take all final race. Race 19 scheduled to start at 1 15 this afternoon. Abc7 News Reporter Amy Hollyfield will have a report at the top of the hour. Police identified several teens as persons of interest in the brutal beating of a pleasanton man. The 51yearold david lamont is in a coma. He was with his wife and two daughters at home and he went outside to check out loud voices in a field. His wife found him ...