{"id":429,"date":"2010-03-16T00:02:41","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T07:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"tag:google.com,2005:reader\/item\/343315940d83d399"},"modified":"2010-03-25T14:25:01","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T21:25:01","slug":"rahul-gandhi-a-better-leader-than-obama-taleb-india-today-latest-breaking-news-from-india-world-business-cricket-sports-bollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/rahul-gandhi-a-better-leader-than-obama-taleb-india-today-latest-breaking-news-from-india-world-business-cricket-sports-bollywood\/","title":{"rendered":"Rahul Gandhi a better leader than Obama: Taleb: India Today &#8211; Latest Breaking News from India, World, Business, Cricket, Sports, Bollywood."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Shared by  JohnH<br \/>\n<br \/>\nHatTip to Dave Lull.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Rahul Gandhi is a better leader than Barack Obama, feels philosopher economist and risk engineer Nassim Nicholas Taleb. &#8220;He is aware of the problems and he is looking at the right problems. Obama is surrounded by people who don&#8217;t know there is a problem.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>In the capital last week to deliver a talk at the India Today Conclave, Dr. Taleb expands on what he thinks are the &#8216;right&#8217; issues to look at &#8211; anything which strengthens what he calls &#8216; robustness&#8217; in an economy or society.<\/p>\n<p>Robustness is simply an ability to survive hard times. It could be an economic crisis, a natural calamity or even climate change.<\/p>\n<p>That is why he is impressed with Rahul Gandhi. In their interaction, he says, Gandhi talked about suicides by debtridden small farmers, and rural poverty. &#8220;He understands the India model. &#8220;And his advice to the man widely tipped to be a future Prime Minister of India? &#8220;Look at your small farmers, strengthen your artisans. Concentrate on robustness.&#8221; Debt is anathema to Dr. Taleb, an American Greek Orthodox Christian of Lebanese descent.<\/p>\n<p>Debt &#8211; and the failure to recognise the problem of debt &#8211; is one of the reasons he is upset with Obama. &#8220;The United States is a bankrupt state,&#8221; he declares.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shared by  JohnH <\/p>\n<p>HatTip to Dave Lull.<br \/>\nRahul Gandhi is a better leader than Barack Obama, feels philosopher economist and risk engineer Nassim Nicholas Taleb. &#8220;He is aware of the problems and he is looking at the right problems. Obama is surrounded by&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429","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=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":509,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions\/509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}