Housing Doom Word 4 the Day: ingenuous Reuters this morning.[1] A Goldman spokesman just emailed me a quick statement, trying to downplay the firm’s involvement in HFT. The spokesman notes that “even using the broadest definition, high frequency shares trading accounted for less than 1% of Goldman Sachs’ total revenue in the first half of 2009.” The spokesman goes on to note that Goldman’s proprietary trading HFT desk does not receive so-called “flash quotes” from stock exchanges. A flash quote is a controversial practice in which an exchange allows some hyperactive HFT desks to get a sneak peak of other…
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