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Monthly Archives: August 2010

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

Taleb's Pessimism Sows Seeds of CIC Interest – WSJ.com

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Prof. Nassim Nicholas Taleb was in his native northern Lebanon last week, thinking about instability in the pricin…

Just as no monkey is as attractive as the ugliest of humans, no academic is worthier than the worst of the creators.

Just as no monkey is as attractive as the ugliest of humans, no academic is worthier than the worst of the creators.

The Markets, Economic Data, and My Black Swan Approach – Scala Volpe Capital

At this point I think it would be helpful to illuminate what I’ve been doing both in reaction to the economic data and to be proactive to what I think is still to come.  As you may have read already on my Portfolio page, I do employ black swan prote…

How Would You Simplify the Financial-Reform Bill? A Freakonomics Quorum – Freakonomics Blog – NYTimes.com

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb is the author of The Black Swan. He is at work on a paper called “Why Did the Crisis of 2008 Happen?”

“The captain goes down with the ship…”

Time to realize that capitalism is …