{"id":5008,"date":"2025-04-15T16:59:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T11:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/insight\/?p=202"},"modified":"2025-11-13T14:33:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T09:03:20","slug":"nobody-understands-the-stock-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/2025\/04\/nobody-understands-the-stock-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Nobody Understands the Stock Market"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was more than 10 years ago when Michael Lewis originally published &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3PUbN2j\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3PUbN2j\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt<\/a>&#8220;. When I first read it in 2014, I was left speechless. The truths and concepts it uncovered remain relevant even a decade later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here&#8217;s Lewis discussing his book and the stock market on Bloomberg Television&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Michael Lewis: Nobody Understands the Stock Market\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I0Yx7RnHAcw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Like the title says, sadly &#8220;nobody understands the stock market&#8221;. If you are even remotely interested in personal finance or investing, I highly recommend you read <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3PUbN2j\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3PUbN2j\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Flash Boys<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was more than 10 years ago when Michael Lewis originally published &#8220;Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt&#8220;. When I first read it in 2014,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,34],"tags":[26,10],"class_list":["post-5008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-ideas","tag-resources","tag-society"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5021,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5008\/revisions\/5021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}