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Elarie
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Apr 3 2014, 1:35pm

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Charlie Rose interviewed author Michael Lewis last night about his book "Flash Boys", and I just thought it was very cool that when he was describing Canadian banker Brad Katsuyama going up against the Wall Street high frequency trading gang he compared him to Frodo. A cultural reference that everybody gets nowadays. Smile

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Magpie
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Apr 3 2014, 2:40pm

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although the pedantic of us would note that Frodo did not assemble a team/Fellowship to destroy the Ring. :-)

But the person making the reference seemed very comfortable with it ... I got the impression he was familiar with the story (either via movie or book) and that he kind of expected most of his listeners to be familiar with it. A casual cultural reference.

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