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Commissioner Bart Chilton  “The exchanges like it when there’s
thousands of trades a second, but is that good for markets?”
Photograph by Brendan Hoffman/Bloomberg   The Twitter crash on
April 23 briefly erased $136 billion from the markets. What’s
your take on it? It looked like we had trouble on our hands
right away. Whenever you see market volatility acting so
rapidly, our antennas go up big-time. How did it happen? I can’t
speak for the FBI. I know the press reports just like everybody
else that the Syrian Electronic Army took credit for it. But I
can tell you with regard to the markets what happened is a lot
of traders, particularly these high-frequency traders, who I
call chee