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Nassim N Taleb’s review of Modelling Extremal Events: for Insurance and Finance Stochastic Modelling and Applied Probability

5.0 out of 5 stars Indispensable, January 7, 2014By N N Taleb “Nassim N Taleb”Modelling Extremal Events: for Insurance and Finance Stochastic Modelling and Applied Probability (Hardcover)The mathematics of extreme events, or the remote parts of the probability distributions, is a discipline on its own, more important than any other with respect to risk and […]

Amazon.com: N N Taleb “Nassim N Taleb”‘s review of The Kelly Capital Growth Investment Criter…

5.0 out of 5 stars Finally, a compendium of the most rigorous research (gamblers ruin based) on risky decisions, November 29, 2013 By N N Taleb “Nassim N Taleb” This review is from: The Kelly Capital Growth Investment Criterion: Theory and Practice (World Scientific Handbook in Financial Economics) (Paperback) There are two methods to consider […]

Never write a negative book review review…

Never write a negative book review review. It is a step below badmouthing. A bad book is its own bad review.It just hit me that, in 14 years of reviewing books on AMAZON & elsewhere, I never posted a bad review. Actually, I’ve never written a bad review except for one that I ‘ve removed […]

Nassim N Taleb’s review of Fighting to Save Main Street from Wall Street and Wall Street from Itself

5.0 out of 5 stars A Real Person in Washington: guts & thruth, September 26, 2012By N N Taleb “Nassim N Taleb”This review is from: Bull by the Horns: Fighting to Save Main Street from Wall Street and Wall Street from Itself HardcoverI don’t have time for a full review for now; all I have […]