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Taleb Says World Is More Fragile Today Than in 2007 | Bloomberg

Published on Oct 31, 2018 Nassim Nicholas Taleb, scientific advisor at Universa Investments, discusses the factors causing global fragility, hidden liabilities in global markets, and what he sees as safe trades in the current market. He speaks with Bloomberg’s Erik Schatzker on “Bloomberg Markets.”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb: The danger of debt | The Sunday Times Post

But in this instance, the government came in indiscriminately to bail out everyone. So let’s zoom out seven years later – is it seven years already? – and look at what’s happened. Well, what has happened is nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing new. We did not learn. We have had some kind of pseudo-recovery, mostly fuelled […]

As technology increases, misunderstanding of ruin by a very small number of people is sufficient to guarantee ruin

https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/622407350482305024 https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/622375840144302080 https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/622127777064595456 As technology increases, misunderstanding of ruin by a very small number of people is sufficient to guarantee ruin https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10153193506938375&id=13012333374 … Greece: Neither those who made the decision to borrow nor those who made the decision to lend had skin in the game. “Other people’ money”. Friday probability quiz. X has 2 children. One […]

NYU’s Taleb Says Debt Raises Risk of `Catastrophe’ | Bloomberg Video

  Nov. 14 (Bloomberg) — Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a professor at New York University and author of “The Black Swan” and “Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder,” talks about risks created by government debt and Federal Reserve monetary policy. He speaks with John Dawson on Bloomberg Television’s “First Up” on the sidelines of Barclays Asia […]

Tom Keene interviews Nassim Taleb on U.S. Economy, New Book – Video – Bloomberg

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What if NNT had is own show! That I’d watch.
Dec. 17 (Bloomberg) — New York University professor Nassim Taleb talks about his new book “The Bed of Procrustes.”
Taleb, author of “The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Im…