{"id":2869,"date":"2011-02-02T12:03:22","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T20:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"tag:google.com,2005:reader\/item\/69635b03ea8aa648"},"modified":"2011-02-04T00:13:18","modified_gmt":"2011-02-04T08:13:18","slug":"russia-looks-better-than-u-s-or-china-taleb-investing-financial-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/russia-looks-better-than-u-s-or-china-taleb-investing-financial-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia looks better than U.S. or China: Taleb | Investing | Financial Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Shared by  JohnH<\/p>\n<p> HatTip to Dave Lull<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Nassim Taleb, author of \u201cBlack Swan,\u201d said ballooning debt in the U.S. and the risk of asset bubbles in China make the Russian economy look comforting by comparison.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I look at the future, I feel comforted by a country like Russia,\u201d Taleb said today in Moscow at a conference organized by Trioka Dialog. He said he feels \u201ca little nervous about China, and very nervous about the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Russia has \u201cresilience\u201d after going through \u201cseveral crises over the past hundred years,\u201d whereas the U.S. \u201ccan\u2019t sustain shocks,\u201d said Taleb, whose 2007 best-seller argued that most people underestimate the frequency of rare events that have a major effect on markets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shared by  JohnH <\/p>\n<p>HatTip to Dave Lull<br \/>\nNassim Taleb, author of \u201cBlack Swan,\u201d said ballooning debt in the U.S. and the risk of asset bubbles in China make the Russian economy look comforting by comparison.<br \/>\n\u201cWhen I look at the future, I feel comfor&#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-2869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2869","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=2869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2875,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2869\/revisions\/2875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}