Episode · Lex Fridman Podcast · 2022-07-29

Lex Fridman & Brian Armstrong: books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #307

#307 – Brian Armstrong: Coinbase, Cryptocurrency, and Government Regulation

2 books · With Brian Armstrong · Listen · Watch on YouTube

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Brian Armstrong discussed Flash Boys by Michael Lewis and Changing World Order by Ray Dalio.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

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1. 

   Flash Boys

   Michael Lewis · at 12:49 · mentioned 2 times

   Flash Boys by Michael Lewis is a non-fiction book that exposes the mechanics of high-frequency trading on Wall Street through the efforts of Brad Katsuyama and a group of rebel investors trying to reform financial markets.

   Discussed

   “So there's a lot of people like traders who get super into this, like high-frequency traders, and arbitrage, and all kinds of interesting topics. Flash Boys was like an interesting book on this whole thing.”

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2. 

   Changing World Order

   Ray Dalio · at 1:41:11

   Ray Dalio's Changing World Order is a sweeping macroeconomic exploration of how major global empires rise, decline, and transition through cycles of debt, economic dominance, and conflict.

   Discussed

   “he talks in there he looks back at history right he looks at like empires and you know going back to various chinese empires the dutch and ottomans and everybody and how did they rise”

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