{"id":4048,"date":"2012-01-15T15:48:57","date_gmt":"2012-01-15T23:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=4048"},"modified":"2012-01-15T15:48:57","modified_gmt":"2012-01-15T23:48:57","slug":"apocalypse-how-dire-2012-forecasts-pessimistic-prognosticators-bloomberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/apocalypse-how-dire-2012-forecasts-pessimistic-prognosticators-bloomberg\/","title":{"rendered":"Apocalypse How? Dire 2012 Forecasts: Pessimistic Prognosticators &#8211; Bloomberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Nassim Nicholas Taleb<br \/>The author of the best-selling 2007 book &#8220;The Black Swan,&#8221; Nassim Nicholas Taleb said last June that the U.S.&#8217;s debt situation was worse than that of Greece. &#8220;The difference between Europe and the U.S. is the consciousness of the problem,&#8221; Taleb said in September. He warned the world&#8217;s predicament is more dire than in 2008. &#8220;And, we will pay a higher price,&#8221; he said in October. <strong>&#8220;We haven&#8217;t done anything constructive in three and a half years. Nobody wants to do anything drastic now.&#8221;<\/strong> Asked about these statements, Taleb wrote in an Jan. 12 email: &#8220;These are not predictions but statements of riskiness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/money-gallery\/2012-01-14\/apocalypse-how-dire-2012-forecasts.html#slide3\">Apocalypse How? Dire 2012 Forecasts: Pessimistic Prognosticators &#8211; Bloomberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nassim Nicholas TalebThe author of the best-selling 2007 book &#8220;The Black Swan,&#8221; Nassim Nicholas Taleb said last June that the U.S.&#8217;s debt situation was worse than that of Greece. &#8220;The difference between Europe and the U.S. is the consciousness of the problem,&#8221; Taleb said in September. He warned the world&#8217;s predicament is more dire than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contributors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4048","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4049,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4048\/revisions\/4049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}