#396: A Father Of High-Speed Trading Thinks We Should Slow Down




Planet Money show

Summary: <p style="font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Thomas Peterffy's life story includes a typing robot, a proto-iPad, and a vast fortune he amassed as one of the first guys to use computers in financial markets.</p><p style="font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">On today's show, Peterffy tells us his story — and he explains why he's worried about the financial world he helped create.</p><p style="font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">We learned of Peterffy's story from the forthcoming book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Automate-This-Algorithms-Came-World/dp/1591844924" target="_blank">Automate This</a>.</p>