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When Smart Investors Do Stupid Things

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

The article closes by asking, “how long can they produce those kinds of returns before suffering some spectacular crash?” We now know the answer: about a year. LTCM was a glaring reminder that past volatility is a terrible measure of future risk. Yet we still obsess over volatility, convinced that it tells us how safe […]

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Charlie Rose – Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Thursday, March 3, 2011

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NNT on Charlie Rose, tomorrow, Feb. 22 2011. Will post links to interview as it becomes available.

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Taleb Says Fed Policymakers `Do Not Understand Risk’

Friday, November 12, 2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhSRaehWSvY (This video is unavailable. ) The risks stemming from the Federal Reserve’s efforts to stimulate the economy through bond purchases are “humongous” and the central bank doesn’t fully understand the potential effects, said Nassim Taleb, author of “The Black Swan.” “These people do not understand risk,” Taleb said in an interview on Bloomberg Television’s […]

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Nassim Taleb: Don’t Listen to Geithner or Krugman – Nicole Allan – Business – The Atlantic

Friday, October 1, 2010

Taleb took issue with Krugman’s support of deficit spending. “This transformation of private debt, with all the moral hazard it entails, into public debt is, number one, from a risk standpoint, bad,” he said. “And from an ethical standpoint, I find it …

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