The financial services industry channels the smartest graduates into zero-sum competition to predict price moves microseconds faster than rivals, which produces private gain but no social product—evidenced by 45% of Princeton's pre-crash graduating class entering finance.

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Speaker

Robert Frank

Evidence Quote

help come up with an algorithm that's going to predict when the price is going to move ten seconds before the second-fastest algorithm does it but Bob Goldman Sachs chairman Lloyd Blankfein assures me they're doing the Lord's work

Source

Robert Frank on Competition, Government, and Darwin 09/12/2011EconTalk
Created: 6/17/2026, 9:48:29 AM

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