https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/5.aspxenCommunityServer 2008.5 SP2 (Build: 40407.4157)https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/thread/360326.aspxThu, 26 Aug 2010 11:30:58 GMT944abf2b-d1be-4bf2-990d-438cb0e377e9:360326Azure0https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/thread/360326.aspxhttps://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=5&PostID=360326<p> In high-frequency trading things are bought and only held for under a thousandth of a second before it is sold once more. This allows financial markets to respond to shocks much more quickly.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/thread/360324.aspxThu, 26 Aug 2010 11:16:38 GMT944abf2b-d1be-4bf2-990d-438cb0e377e9:360324mickanomics0https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/thread/360324.aspxhttps://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=5&PostID=360324<p> Here&#39;s something that has long bugged me...</p> <p> When money is passed from man A to man B in exchange for some goods then the money can be spent by man B or loaned out by B&#39;s bank or invested by B&#39;s bank after the exchange has taken place. No doubt B&#39;s bank will do something with the money almost immediately. I say almost immediately, but I have no idea whether that its likely to be within 1 millisecond, a second, and hour, a day?</p> <p> So my questions are: what is the average time that money is unable to be used during a transaction? And does it matter? If the typical time now was 0.2 seconds and some change (regulatory/cultural/technical or otherwise) caused that time to decrease to 0.1 seconds, would that make any noticeable difference to the greater economy? Has anyone made a study of this?</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>