itwbennett writes “A 2-year government investigation has found what we pretty much all knew to be true: High speed trading systems were not the cause of the 2008 economic crash. ‘The crisis was the result of human action and inaction, not of Mother Nature or computer models gone haywire,’ according to a leaked copy of the report’s conclusions revealed in the New York Times.”

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Official — Economic Crash Not Computers’ Fault