{"id":5020,"date":"2012-11-21T09:28:09","date_gmt":"2012-11-21T17:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=5020"},"modified":"2012-11-21T09:28:09","modified_gmt":"2012-11-21T17:28:09","slug":"taleb-pegs-greenspan-stiglitz-as-fragilistas-bloomberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/taleb-pegs-greenspan-stiglitz-as-fragilistas-bloomberg\/","title":{"rendered":"Taleb Pegs Greenspan, Stiglitz as \u2018Fragilistas\u2019 &#8211; Bloomberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>He names names: Alan Greenspan, Paul Krugman, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, Robert Rubin and Alan Blinder, among others, receive very harsh treatment, some for blindness, others for ethical lapses. They all fit his definition of the \u201cfragilista\u201d: \u201cSomeone who causes fragility because he thinks he understands what\u2019s going on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do not have a political affiliation,\u201d Taleb asserts after blasting both parties, complaining that it\u2019s hard to fit his ideas \u201cwithin the current U.S. political discourse.\u201d He writes as a philosopher and a prophet, though he\u2019s mainly a prophet in the sense that Cassandra was.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2012-11-21\/taleb-pegs-greenspan-stiglitz-as-economy-hurting-fragilistas-.html\">Taleb Pegs Greenspan, Stiglitz as \u2018Fragilistas\u2019 &#8211; Bloomberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He names names: Alan Greenspan, Paul Krugman, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, Robert Rubin and Alan Blinder, among others, receive very harsh treatment, some for blindness, others for ethical lapses. They all fit his definition of the \u201cfragilista\u201d: \u201cSomeone who causes fragility because he thinks he understands what\u2019s going on.\u201d \u201cI do not have a political [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[484],"tags":[586,365,587,584,272,585],"class_list":["post-5020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antifragile","tag-alan-blinder","tag-book-review","tag-fragilistas","tag-joseph-stiglitz","tag-robert-rubin","tag-thomas-friedman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5020","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=5020"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5022,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5020\/revisions\/5022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}