1.0 link 227923 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/pablo-triana/in-finance-history-often_b_227923.html Nassim Taleb, the famed author and iconoclast, explains in the foreword to my new book how he spent nearly two decades trading a type of complicated financial product known as exotic options, on underlyings such as stock prices, interest rates, currencies, or commodities. In fact, he was there right at the beginning, when those products were being first invented by Wall Street and the City of London, in response to client needs and desires for ever more tailored risk taking....

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