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...Others who have recently warned about US debt include Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of Black Swan, a book about the impact of seemingly improbable events, who told an event in Florida last week that unless...
...Adding to the piquancy, Buffett’s big fat derivatives trade came just as Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s own dim views of derivatives selling were coming to the fore....
...Major General Pat Ryder, the Pentagon press secretary, said the target, Mushtaq Taleb al-Saidi, also known as Abu Taqwa, was “actively involved in planning and carrying out attacks against” the US military...
...Units (PMU), a network of Iran-backed militia groups, some of which are nominally under the control of Iraq’s state security forces, announced the death of its deputy head of operations in Baghdad, Mushtaq Taleb...
...— The story of titanium (Construction Physics) — Taleb as miseducator, part 4 (Dan Davies) — Spain’s solar ambitions (Phenomenal World) — “A mine is a hole in the ground with a liar standing on the...
...Taleb clicked instantly with Mark Spitznagel, with whom he founded hedge fund Empirica in 1999....
...Asness: You’re trying to get me to fight with Taleb [Nassim Taleb, an adviser to Universa, a tail risk fund]....
...Housel cites the wisdom of others, including the scholar Nassim Nicholas Taleb, who invest in preparedness rather than prediction; and the investor Charlie Munger, who says it is not greed but envy that...
...Vaillant’s references to Nassim Taleb, Lucretius, Seamus Heaney, The Lord of the Rings, Xerxes, and Moby-Dick can grate....
...As Taleb writes: “Some things benefit from shocks; they thrive and grow when exposed to volatility, randomness, disorder, and stressors and love adventure, risk, and uncertainty.”...
...(A Corner Office) — FTC cracks down on companies that impose harmful noncompete restrictions on thousands of workers (FTC press release) —Bitcoin is ‘the detector of imbeciles’: L’Express interviews Taleb...
...Brad DeLong on the Fed Taleb on the war RenCap on the Spac bust Order book Death Star depth charts A no-drama hedge fund Inside the Peter Thiel-backed new right Australia’s research brain drain problem...
...Author Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his book The Black Swan points out that in the 1982 Latin American debt crisis the large US banks lost all of their cumulative past earnings....
...And a third concept that is being embraced is fragmentation, as championed by the writer Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his book Antifragile....
...A tail-risk tiff A week or two ago, Bloomberg’s Justina Lee published a widely read piece scrutinising Universa, the tail-risk hedging fund founded by Mark Spitznagel and advised by Nassim Taleb....
...(Ethan Wu) One good read Whatever you think of Nassim Taleb, he sure is funny: “What people don’t realise is I have my Twitter fights prepared at least a week in advance....
...Are there any derivatives traders out there who haven’t read Taleb’s Black Swan?...
...This month it’s The Mariner from Banipal Books, a translation of Taleb Alrefai’s Kuwaiti history novel. These are chewy books designed for long walks rather than distracted commutes....
...way into Nato circles (Bellingcat) — Why billionaire John Malone’s shadow looms over CNN (Vox) — The Milky Way’s black hole may be key to understanding what drives galaxies (Quanta) — Nassim Nicholas Taleb...
...First, it exemplifies what Nassim Taleb and others call “picking up pennies in front of a steamroller.”...
...And Edouard Montassut, already a veteran of A-list fairs such as Frieze New York and Liste, brings photography by Niklas Taleb....
...Resurrecting the ghost of Credit Suisse past While cutting his teeth at First Boston in the 1980s, options trader Nassim Nicholas Taleb did not take well to his first career evaluation....
...Discretionby Faïza Guène, translated by Sarah Ardizzone, Saqi Books £12.99 Approaching her 70th birthday, Yamina Taleb is content with her life as an Algerian immigrant in Paris....
...A decade ago, Nassim Nicholas Taleb argued that some exposure to stress is better, more conducive to long-run robustness, than prolonged ease....
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