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Tom Keene interviews Nassim Taleb on U.S. Economy, New Book – Video – Bloomberg

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What if NNT had is own show! That I’d watch.
Dec. 17 (Bloomberg) — New York University professor Nassim Taleb talks about his new book “The Bed of Procrustes.”
Taleb, author of “The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Im…

Nassim Taleb Educates a Quant

Now you all know I’m a Taleb super-fan, but this video is excellent and hilarious. It’s not going to mean much to the general public, but to those of us following the argument it’s genius. Would love to watch NNT’s face as he saw it for the first time. I like to think that he’d get a few laughs out of it as well, but who knows?

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…