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From full global headquarters, this is Motley Fool Money.

It's the Motley Fool Money Radio Show. I'm Chris Hill and this is our spring break special.

Motley Fool's CEO Tom Gardner recently sat down with bestselling author Michael Lewis

to talk about his new book, Flash Boys, a Wall Street Revolt.

This week you'll hear the entire interview. And Flash Boys Lewis explains the secret world of high frequency trading

and he begins by talking about a big problem with the stock market.

Can I just start? Are you ready?

Yeah.

Rather than you ask me a question. This is great.

Because before we went on camera, you just said, and a fool is a good thing.

And you just triggered a thought that this experience of writing this book has sort of hammered home.

And it's that a big part of the problem in the stock market right now has been that investors did not want to acknowledge their ignorance

about how the stock market worked.

So they're willing to believe the noise that came out of broker's mouths about how electronic trading worked.

And everybody is still to this moment.

And not just investors like small investors, but like CEOs of large mutual fund companies.

The heads of mutual funds, the heads of pension funds, the big hedge fund managers,

that the thing that they get quickly offended by coming out of my mouth say is the idea that the hero of my book

explains to them how the stock market now works even though that's what happened.

That two or three years ago they had no idea how they were being front run by high frequency traders.

This guy comes and explains they respond by saying, oh my god, I can't believe this is happening.

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