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Elizabeth Warren: When a company can claim to be trading on stocks and come out ahead 1,237 days out of 1,238 days, you can see why some…

On the recordJuly 7, 2014
When a company can claim to be trading on stocks and come out ahead 1,237 days out of 1,238 days, you can see why some people think the game is rigged for the big buys to make money and everybody else to lose.
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Elizabeth Warren
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Warren references Michael Lewis's claim about the stock market being rigged.

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