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In an op-ed, Professor Vasant Dhar offers a data-driven approach to regulating financial markets as an alternative to taxing high-frequency trading

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Excerpt from CNBC -- "We should not let populist opinion drive regulation: it doesn't make sense to kill high frequency traders and the associated liquidity they provide just because they make money through intelligent machines. However, if the data quickly reveal patterns of behavior that destabilize markets, we should take focused action on the basis of such evidence."

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