[JumpCrisscross]

> especially HFT

People deciding to kill things in domains they haven’t the vaguest conception about is how we wound up in this situation. (Killing HFTs would be a major boon to Wall Street. You’re mandating an increase in transaction costs.)

[mschuster91]

We wound up in the situation we are because we let the forces of the free market have free reign in creating all possible sorts of quackery and bullshit.