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NNT on Charlie Rose, tomorrow, Feb. 22 2011. Will post links to interview as it becomes available.
Nassim Taleb
with
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
on Feb 22, 2011
Shared by JohnH
NNT on Charlie Rose, tomorrow, Feb. 22 2011. Will post links to interview as it becomes available.
Nassim Taleb
with
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
on Feb 22, 2011
Links to BBC radio interview with NNT. HatTip to Dave Lull.
The intellectual guru Nassim Taleb has published
a collection of philosophical aphorisms.
NNT posted this to his Facebook page today. Reporter “Now I’m afraid readers are going to have to wait a little while for this book, right…NNT ” Five years maybe.”
The risks stemming from the Federal Reserve’s efforts to stimulate the economy through bond purchases are “humongous” and the central bank doesn’t fully understand the potential effects, said Nassim Taleb, author of “The Black Swan.” “These people do not understand risk,” Taleb said in an interview on Bloomberg Television’s “InsideTrack” program with Erik Schatzker. He [...]
HatTip to Dave Lull. Since aphorisms lose their charm whenever explained, I only hint to the reader the main subject of this book, which corresponds to the central theme of Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan, though rephrased in an aphoristic style — fooledbyrandomness.com/aphorisms.pdf