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Monthly Archives: October 2015

Halloween, Mini-Certificate, Beirut, Employees

https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/660216033349775360 https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/660182249858428928 https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/660055825054957568 The Mini-Certificate MINI-CERTIFICATE IN REAL WORLD RISK MANAGEMENT* One-week intense workshop: Feb 22-26 2016, New York City, 9 AM-5 PM Nassim N. Taleb will deliver about half the lecture and sign the certificate 2 day program (no mini-certificate), $2950* 5 day program (with mini-certificate),  $7400* (Early signup discount $2200 and $5900 respectively […]

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 […]

Halal, Eataly, Firms & Slaves, Coase, Strong Filtering, Flaneuring, Tails

https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/658225528793661440 https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/658263753339850752 https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/658424106384277504 https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/658448988555902977 https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/658772186748948480 https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/658773841435611136 https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/657227011698663424 STRONG FILTERING as GENERALIZED FLANEURING This page is not about finance except when the idea generalizes. Here it helps us connect flaneuring to successes such as those of Buffet. The best thing is to not have to do anything *as a default*. So one commits in those cases […]

Gini Coefficients, Powerlaws, Violence

https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/654993514594443264 https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/654728063775735809 https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/654669667571658752 https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/654060744951078912 https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/653979493040803840 https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/653909131783458816 https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/653148001926553602 How to (Not) Estimate Gini Coefficients for Fat Tailed Variables by Nassim Nicholas Taleb :: SSRN http://t.co/SbWSuLd1La — NassimNicholasTaleb (@nntaleb) October 16, 2015 Another paper @dottorpax on dealing with pseudo-powerlaws https://t.co/6azrRfHBhz — NassimNicholasTaleb (@nntaleb) October 15, 2015 Slides for my flash talk at the Bloomberg QuantSeminar this evening […]

GLOBAL BANKING CONFERENCE 2015

Asian Institute of Chartered Bankers Tuesday, November 3, 2015 at 2:00 PM – Wednesday, November 4, 2015 at 5:30 PM (MYT) Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia http://www.shockstage.com/aicb/thought-leadership/global-banking-conference-2015/