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Taleb Says Fed Policymakers `Do Not Understand Risk’

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 [...]

The Bed of Procrustes – new book shipping November 20

Nassim Taleb’s book of aphorisms is now shipping at Amazon. The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Benoit Mandelbrot, 1924-2010

In May, Nassim Taleb Tweeted, “Mandelbrot’s genius is in achieving aesthetic simplicity without having recourse to smoothness; producing harmony in highly jagged surfaces”

Blame Nobel for crisis, says author of Black Swan | Reuters

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Note: From the Globe and Mail http://goo.gl/Sd61The next prize winner will be revealed to great public acclaim or, more typically, puzzlement on Oct. 11. But what neither Mr. Taleb nor most other people realize is that none of the ab…

Nassim Taleb: Don’t Listen to Geithner or Krugman – Nicole Allan – Business – The Atlantic

Taleb took issue with Krugman’s support of deficit spending. “This transformation of private debt, with all the moral hazard it entails, into public debt is, number one, from a risk standpoint, bad,” he said. “And from an ethical standpoint, I find it …

nntaleb: Why did the CRISIS Happen? http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1666042

nntaleb: Why did the CRISISHappen? http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1666042

nntaleb: “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical: Practical Aphorisms”, N N Taleb (of Amioun), c. Jan 2011 www.fooledbyrandomness.com/aphorisms.pdf

nntaleb: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical & Practical Aphorisms”, N N Taleb (of Amioun), c. Jan 2011 www.fooledbyrandomness.com/aphorisms.pdf

Deep Read: Nassim Taleb (The Black Swan Guy) : Planet Money : NPR

by Jacob Goldstein

Here’s the latest Planet Money Deep Read — o…

nntaleb: @felixsalmon sees with clarity: http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2010/08/16/the-mess-that-is-deposit-insurance/

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