{"id":3871,"date":"2011-10-24T00:35:34","date_gmt":"2011-10-24T07:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?guid=df3587e2779c60b5d75d15ecbb736339"},"modified":"2011-10-24T00:35:34","modified_gmt":"2011-10-24T07:35:34","slug":"many-black-swans-make-metaphor-meaningless-alice-schroeder-bloomberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/many-black-swans-make-metaphor-meaningless-alice-schroeder-bloomberg\/","title":{"rendered":"Many Black Swans Make Metaphor Meaningless: Alice Schroeder &#8211; Bloomberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/topics.bloomberg.com\/nassim-taleb\/\">Nassim Taleb<\/a> believes in<br \/>\nprobabilities, not predictions, but at times it can be hard to<br \/>\ntell the difference. \u201cThe real Black Swan event,\u201d he said in<br \/>\nJune, \u201cis that people are not rioting against the banks in<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/topics.bloomberg.com\/london\/\">London<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/topics.bloomberg.com\/new-york\/\">New\u00a0York<\/a>.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Taleb saw it coming, and his well-publicized remark may be<br \/>\nthe only reason Occupy Wall Street hasn\u2019t been labeled a black<br \/>\nswan. This once-rare bird, made ubiquitous by Taleb\u2019s best-<br \/>\nselling 2007 book of the same title, now appears so often after<br \/>\ndramatic events, such as Occupy Wall Street, that sightings of<br \/>\nit have become meaningless. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nassim Taleb believes in<br \/>\nprobabilities, not predictions, but at times it can be hard to<br \/>\ntell the difference. \u201cThe real Black Swan event,\u201d he said in<br \/>\nJune, \u201cis that people are not rioting against the banks in<br \/>\nLondon and New\u00a0York.\u201d<br \/>\nTaleb saw it&#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-3871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3871","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=3871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}