In the London Review of Books there is a discussion of the trend in the world’s stock markets to put trading machines closer and closer together – because millimeters of fibre option cable can be the difference between an algorithm executing a trade, and not.
At the micro and the macro – what is disclosed about me, by me becomes currency, becomes material for trading. A market is a forum for exchange in which we externalise risk, and open ourselves to exchange. We have already mused about our own internal markets. We think of markets as robust – yet they are also delicate ecosystems, dependent on –…
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