Money and Finance
"Silent evidence pervades everything connected to the notion of history." -Nassim Taleb, The Black Swan
- Inequality, Free Markets, And Crashes - By Nassim Taleb & Mark Spitznagel
Link to: Inequality, Free Markets, and CrashesNassim Taleb and Mark Spitznagel talk about how government intervention postpones the inevitable. Mark Spitznagel and Nassim Taleb started the first equity tail-hedging firm in 1999. Since then these...
- Nassim Taleb Quote (asymmetry)
“Put yourself in situations where favorable consequences are much larger than unfavorable ones…Indeed, the notion of asymmetric outcomes is the central idea of this book: I will never get to know the unknown since, by definition, it is unknown. However,...
- Nassim Taleb Quote
“Don’t look for the precise and the local. Simply, do not be narrow-minded. The great discoverer Pasteur, who came up with the notion that chance favors the prepared, understood that you do not look for something particular every morning but work...
- Nassim Taleb On Explanation-seeking Humans
"...we are explanation-seeking animals who tend to think that everything has an identifiable cause and grab the most apparent one as the explanation. Yet there may not be a visible because; to the contrary, frequently there is nothing, not even a spectrum...
- Nassim Taleb On Econtalk
Nassim Taleb, author of Fooled By Randomness and The Black Swan, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about antifragility, the concept behind Taleb's next book, a work in progress. Taleb talks about how we can cope with our ignorance and uncertainty...
Money and Finance
Nassim Taleb on silent evidence
"Silent evidence pervades everything connected to the notion of history." -Nassim Taleb, The Black Swan
- Inequality, Free Markets, And Crashes - By Nassim Taleb & Mark Spitznagel
Link to: Inequality, Free Markets, and CrashesNassim Taleb and Mark Spitznagel talk about how government intervention postpones the inevitable. Mark Spitznagel and Nassim Taleb started the first equity tail-hedging firm in 1999. Since then these...
- Nassim Taleb Quote (asymmetry)
“Put yourself in situations where favorable consequences are much larger than unfavorable ones…Indeed, the notion of asymmetric outcomes is the central idea of this book: I will never get to know the unknown since, by definition, it is unknown. However,...
- Nassim Taleb Quote
“Don’t look for the precise and the local. Simply, do not be narrow-minded. The great discoverer Pasteur, who came up with the notion that chance favors the prepared, understood that you do not look for something particular every morning but work...
- Nassim Taleb On Explanation-seeking Humans
"...we are explanation-seeking animals who tend to think that everything has an identifiable cause and grab the most apparent one as the explanation. Yet there may not be a visible because; to the contrary, frequently there is nothing, not even a spectrum...
- Nassim Taleb On Econtalk
Nassim Taleb, author of Fooled By Randomness and The Black Swan, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about antifragility, the concept behind Taleb's next book, a work in progress. Taleb talks about how we can cope with our ignorance and uncertainty...