{"id":5378,"date":"2012-12-31T18:28:42","date_gmt":"2013-01-01T02:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=5378"},"modified":"2012-12-31T18:28:42","modified_gmt":"2013-01-01T02:28:42","slug":"nassim-nicholas-taleb-a-thinker-with-an-antifragile-ego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/nassim-nicholas-taleb-a-thinker-with-an-antifragile-ego\/","title":{"rendered":"Nassim Nicholas Taleb: A thinker with an antifragile ego"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Before The Black Swan was published, Taleb had been a prophet without honour in the United States. \u201cI knew before the crash that the system was going to blow up. In 2003, I went to the New York Times and said, \u2018Fannie Mae [the Federal National Mortgage Association] is sitting on dynamite with taxpayers\u2019 money. These guys are going to blow up with my money because they don\u2019t know what the fuck they\u2019re doing risk-wise.\u2019\u201d But the \u201cGray Lady\u201d didn\u2019t listen. \u201cI just had smear campaign after smear campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Taleb is currently engaged in a feud with the Times\u2019s star columnist Thomas Friedman \u201cHe\u2019s after me now\u201d, whom he lambasts in the book for being a cheerleader for the Iraq war. Like the senior executives at the bailed-out banks, Friedman \u201cpaid no price for his mistakes\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/economics\/economics\/2012\/12\/nassim-nicholas-taleb-thinker-antifragile-ego\">Nassim Nicholas Taleb: A thinker with an antifragile ego<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before The Black Swan was published, Taleb had been a prophet without honour in the United States. \u201cI knew before the crash that the system was going to blow up. In 2003, I went to the New York Times and said, \u2018Fannie Mae [the Federal National Mortgage Association] is sitting on dynamite with taxpayers\u2019 money. [&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":[167],"class_list":["post-5378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antifragile","tag-moral-hazard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5378","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=5378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}