{"id":2165,"date":"2010-08-14T01:07:09","date_gmt":"2010-08-14T08:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"tag:google.com,2005:reader\/item\/8272088ebc7ac6de"},"modified":"2010-08-14T01:07:09","modified_gmt":"2010-08-14T08:07:09","slug":"6-gurus-who-told-you-that-selling-your-treasuries-was-a-great-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/6-gurus-who-told-you-that-selling-your-treasuries-was-a-great-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Gurus Who Told You That Selling Your Treasuries Was A GREAT Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nFortunately or not, I don’t have a lot to wager with, but I wouldn’t be too quick to discount Taleb’s advice.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Nassim<\/div>\n

” ‘Every single human being’ should bet US treasury bonds will decline”<\/p>\n

— Nassim Taleb (Author of “The Black Swan”) on Feb. 4, 2010<\/a><\/p>\n

Other one-line stunts in the same interview<\/a> include “[Fiscal] Deficits are like putting dynamite in the hands of children…They get out of control very quickly.” and “Democracies can’t handle austerity measures very well…We are going to have a severe problem.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Fortunately or not, I don’t have a lot to wager with, but I wouldn’t be too quick to discount Taleb’s advice.
\n” ‘Every single human being’ should bet US treasury bonds will decline”
\n— Nassim Taleb (Author of “The Black Swan”) on Feb…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}