Nassim Taleb is stunned. Stunned!
He's stunned that he lives in a world where a fool like Ben Bernanke will likely be reappointed to serve another term as Fed chair.
Why? Is it because he mishandled the crisis?
No, nothing that...
Our friend Mebane has a wonderful list of books to read on stock distributions and rare events.
Shortened list (Via World Beta)
Click Here For Mebane Faber's Full List of Recommended Books On Bubbles & Stock Distributions
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No, seriously. This is from his own words, in a piece at HuffPo.
I was in Korea last week with a collection of suit-wearing hotshots. On a panel sat Takatoshi Kato, IMF Deputy Managing Director. Before the discussion he gave us a powerpoint...
Quote of the day : We cannot truly plan, because we do not understand the future – but this is not necessarily a bad news. We could plan while bearing in mind such limitations. It just takes guts. – Nassim Nicholas Taleb EURUSD The euro holds...
Companies that become too big,
complicated and debt-ridden should be allowed to “creatively
destruct,” said Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of “The Black
Swan.”
Nassim Taleb Submits a paper on why most people misunderstand the ideas of black swans. This is worth a read.
Click Here To Read Nassim Taleb's Latest On Errors in the Interpretation of The Black Swan
Abstract (via SSRN):
The point of...
(This guest post first appeared at the author's blog)
The ever amusing Nassim Taleb has penned yet another response to his critics. He simply oozes defensiveness, which combined with his arrogance, strong opinions, and popularity, makes him...
Serial killers, bad dogs, late
bloomers, mammograms, the lady who wrote, “If I’ve only one
life, let me live it as a blonde!” -- Malcolm Gladwell can
write engrossingly about just about anything.
Nassim Taleb speaks with David Cameron about Black Swans and economic crises.
Introduction (Via Fora.Tv)
Nassim Taleb is the best-selling author of Fooled By Randomness and The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable. So called...
Eugene Fama will have to wait. And your fantasy of seeing Nassim Taleb accept his much-reviled Nobel Prize won't happen either.
Elinor Olstrom and Oliver E. Williamson have split the 2009 Nobel Prize in economics.
We're eager to see the...
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