{"id":2224,"date":"2010-08-23T17:31:29","date_gmt":"2010-08-24T00:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"tag:google.com,2005:reader\/item\/99c244156cde9b39"},"modified":"2010-08-23T17:31:29","modified_gmt":"2010-08-24T00:31:29","slug":"talebs-pessimism-sows-seeds-of-cic-interest-wsj-com-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/talebs-pessimism-sows-seeds-of-cic-interest-wsj-com-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Taleb&#039;s Pessimism Sows Seeds of CIC Interest &#8211; WSJ.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Shared by  JohnH<br \/>\n<br \/>\nHatTip to Dave Lull WSJ is behind a paywall unless you search for the story and connect to it through Google. For now.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Prof. Nassim Nicholas Taleb was in his native northern Lebanon last week, thinking about instability in the pricing of goods and services. He also was shopping for olive orchards.<\/p>\n<p>The mathematical finance scholar who lectures at New York University and wrote the 2007 book &#8220;The Black Swan&#8221; said he is as pessimistic as ever about the prospects for sustained global economic recovery. He suggests that investors around the world strap in for a wild ride of deflation and inflation. And, therefore, he said, it makes sense for him to pour money into farming, especially olives, which are indispensable to the Mediterranean world. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shared by  JohnH <\/p>\n<p>HatTip to Dave Lull WSJ is behind a paywall unless you search for the story and connect to it through Google. For now.<br \/>\nProf. Nassim Nicholas Taleb was in his native northern Lebanon last week, thinking about instability in the pricin&#8230;<\/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-2224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224","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=2224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2231,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224\/revisions\/2231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}