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Randall Lane Analyzes the Wall Street Flash Crash
The biggest midday stock-market drop ever stemmed less from the Greek crisis than a clerical mistake. Randall Lane on our financial system’s soft underbelly: the ability of one trader to blow up the markets.
Randall Lane
Published
May 7 2010
12:15AM EDT
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