Opinion: To beat this rigged stock market, stop what you’re doing – MarketWatch 07-16-15

Salient to Investors: Jeff Reeves of InvestorPlace.com writes: Manipulating the markets with high-frequency trading is extremely complicated, hard to track, and even harder to determine violations of laws or regulations. Half of all trading volume in US equity markets supposedly involves high-frequency trading (HFT), which is now a global concern.

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‘The market is rigged’ – Michael Lewis – BBC News 04-10-15

Salient to Investors: Michael Lewis said: Charles Munger says high-frequency trading is the functional equivalent of letting a lot of rats into a granary. Electronic trading has rigged the market against ordinary investors, particularly in America, by allowing high-frequency traders to front run institutional investors and skim billions of dollars from the

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Fareed Zakaria GPS – CNN 03-22-15

Fareed Zakaria said: The greatest vulnerability for Israel is its legal jurisdiction over 4.5 million Arabs who have neither a state nor a vote – a situation that cannot last in a democratic society. The Stockholm IPRI says Israel’s defense budget is larger than that of Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon

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