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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: A thinker with an antifragile ego

Before The Black Swan was published, Taleb had been a prophet without honour in the United States. “I knew before the crash that the system was going to blow up. In 2003, I went to the New York Times and said, ‘Fannie Mae [the Federal National Mortgage Association] is sitting on dynamite with taxpayers’ money. […]

New Yorker Video: Nassim Taleb on Risk and Robustness

For the inaugural video in the New Yorker Currents series, Nassim Nicholas Taleb talks with James Surowiecki about the causes of the 2008 financial crisis and the future of the economy. Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2010/06/video-currents-nassim-nicholas-taleb-james-surowiecki.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter#ixzz0q9XOjFYM .

Nassim Taleb Bloomberg 05/13/10

HatTip to EG! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVxcDgfTzuk] NNT was also on CNBC yesterday. The interviewers get in the way somewhat but it’s worth watching.