Nassim Taleb

Christopher Whalen and the Bet on Small Banks

Robert Teitelman | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Nassim Taleb, Meredith Whitney, Dealbook, Christopher Whalen, Whalen, Banking, Small Banks, Banks, Business News
Robert Teitelman

Traditional banking is a difficult, commoditized service business, shorn of products that make fat profits. That's the reality that no one ever speaks of when they cry out to revive Glass-Steagall or when they wax poetic about the joys of small-town banking.

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Lessons From Cairo: Stand Up And Be Counted!

Dr. Judith Rich | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: President Hosni Mubarak, Living News, Nassim Taleb, Egyptian Protests, Hosni Mubarak, Egyptian Uprising, ABC News, Arianna Huffington, Egypt Protests, Featured Contributor, Black Swan, Mona Eltahawi, Christian-Amanpurr, Dr. Judith Rich, Huffington Post, Healthy Living News
Dr. Judith Rich

The Egyptians have opened this door for others as well. This is an important and powerful moment for each one of us, for it is in claiming our own authority to count in the matters of life; conscious life begins.

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Is Black Swan the Worst Movie of the Year?

Peter Schwartz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Winona Ryder, Mila Kunis, Natalie Portman, Oscars, Nassim Taleb, Black Swan, The Oscars, Movies, Arts News
Peter Schwartz

Black Swan is one of the worst movies ever, truly an embarrassment to the high standard Nassim Taleb has set for all topics Black Swan-related.

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A Walk Through Paris With Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Vivian Norris | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Force and Fragility, Economics, Ralph Nader, Nassim Taleb, David Cameron, Fooled by Randomness, Aphorisms, Benoit Mandelbrot, Low Interest Rates, The Bed of Procrustes, Vivian Norris, Banking, Financial Crisis, Black Swan Book, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Business News
Vivian Norris

Taleb has been criticized, but he tells it as he sees it, whether or not everyone agrees.

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The Other Black Swan

Robert Brenner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nassim Taleb, Black Swan, Probability, Movies, Books, Comedy, Andy Warhol, Lady GaGa, Behind the Music, Natalie Portman, Comedy News
Robert Brenner

The world is full of White Swans -- if only one knows where to look for them. To prove my point, I boldly make the following predictions. I guarantee all of them will come true within the coming year.

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Fed Policymakers 'Do Not Understand Risk' Says Taleb

Bloomberg | Erik Schatzker and Jeff Kearns | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Economic Crisis, Ben Bernake, The Black Swan, Business News, Nassim Taleb, Federal Reserve Risk, Federal Reserve, Economy, Business News

The risks stemming from the Federal Reserve's efforts to stimulate the economy through bond purchases are "humongous" and the central bank doesn't ful...

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William Alden

Basel Won't Prevent Another Financial Crisis, Mervyn King Says

HuffingtonPost.com | William Alden | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Vikram Pandit, Mervyn King, Bank of England, Nassim Taleb, Basel III, Capital Requirements, Citigroup, Business News

Mervyn King, governor of the Bank of England, criticized the recent Basel III requirements, which increase the minimum amount of capital that banks mu...

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Shahien Nasiripour

Federal Reserve 'Will Be Gone' In 25 Years, Top Financial Mind Predicts, Despite Geithner's Vote Of Confidence

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tarp, Economic Stimulus Package, Bailout, Great Recession, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Financial Crisis, Nassim Taleb, Timothy Geithner, Black Swan, Business News

A mere half-hour after Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner praised the "necessary" and "very substantial" actions of the Bush and Obama administration...

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Washington May Be Broken Now, But the Future Is Up for Grabs

Michael Sigman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, George Bush, Bp, Herbert Hoover, The New Yorker, Ronald Reagan, Vanity Fair, President Obama, Warren G. Harding, Joe Mccarthy, Abraham Lincoln, Esquire, George Packer, Todd Purdum, Dwight Eisenhower, Rahm Emanuel, Richard Nixon, Gregg Easterbrook, New York Times, Jimmy Carter, Washington Post, Newt Gingrich, Nassim Taleb, Politics News
Michael Sigman

Politics is ugly, always has been but the framers invented a government that would embody all the messy contradictions without threatening the collapse of the system.

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Nassim Taleb: Debt Spreading "Like Cancer" (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: White House, Economic Stimulus Package, Greece Debt, Recession, Global Debt Crisis, Nassim Taleb, Debt, Black Swan, Greek Debt Crisis, Debt Crisis, Barack Obama, Global Economic Crisis, Video, Business News

Author and New York University professor Nassim Taleb told CNBC this morning reporters that the world's debt problems were spreading "like cancer" -- ...

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Greenspan's Testimony: Will the 'Maestro' Face the Music?

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bill Clinton, Lehman Brothers, Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, Nassim Taleb, Ayn Rand, Paul Krugman, Alan Greenspan, Objectivism, Too Big to Fail, Angelides Commission, Politics News
Richard (RJ) Eskow

Greenspan will attempt to obfuscate. He will condescend, lecture, and distract. For the sake of the country, and to understand how we arrived here, the Angelides Commission must not allow that to happen.

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Planning for a World of Black Swans

Kenneth A. Posner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nassim Taleb, Black Swans, Books, Financial Volatility, Financial Regulation, Financial Crisis, The Black Swan, Books News
Kenneth A. Posner

Volatility is the result of market economies, global capital flows, and ever more powerful information technology -- and thus a price we pay for innovation and growth. Better that we learn to live with it, than try to wish it away.

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Wall Street: Terminators in the Casino

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Curbing Wall Street, Big Youth, Dark Matter, Janet Tavakoli, Automated Trading, Wall Street Plunge, Wall Street Casino, DK Matai, Nassim Taleb, Algorithmic Trading, Flash Crash, Business News
Richard (RJ) Eskow

Wall Street's been a high-risk thrill ride for years, enriching for some but empty of deeper meaning and divorced from underlying value. The "flash crash" didn't break the market, but it did reveal fault lines.

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'Black Swan' Author Nassim Taleb Suggests Warren Buffett's Success May Just Be Luck

CNBC | Alex Crippen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Investing, Nassim Taleb, Warren Buffett, Warren Buffett Berkshire, Black Swan, ai5000, Business News

Nassim Taleb says there isn't enough evidence to show that Warren Buffett's skill, and not his good luck, is responsible for the billionaire's enormou...

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Nassim Taleb, 'Black Swan' Author: Bernanke And Geithner Fired Should Have Been Fired

bloomberg.com | Le-Min Lim and Bob Chen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Larry Summers, Federal Reserve, Financial Crisis, Nassim Taleb, Ben Bernanke, Timothy Geithner, Black Swan, Business News

Sept. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Nassim Taleb, author of "The Black Swan," questioned why Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke, and Treasury Secretary Tim ...

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The Financial Crisis: Economists And Politicians Who Got It Right (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Ryan McCarthy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Meredith Whitney, Stephen Roach, Nouriel Roubini, Kenneth Rogoff, Slidepoll, Who Predicted the Financial Crisis, Financial Crisis, Nassim Taleb, Robert Shiller, Recession, Economists Who Got It Right, Business News

Financial prognostication has a notoriously shoddy track record (We're looking at you, Jim Cramer!). But did anyone actually see the financial cri...

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My Letter Addressing the Guardian's Distortions

Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Posted 05.25.2011

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I used to think that the US press was guilty of distortions. Recent events changed my mind, as UK anti-Cameron papers tried to cut and paste from my talk to weaken him by trying to demonize me.

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Taleb`s Value to a Politician

Pablo Triana | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Britain, Black Swan, Nassim Taleb, David Cameron, World News
Pablo Triana

The composer of "The Black Swan" used the occasion to say certain things to conservative British politician David Cameron that instantly and rabidly captured the headlines

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Why Nassim Taleb is the True Predictor of this Crisis

Pablo Triana | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nassim Taleb, Toxic Assets, Housing Market, Housing Crisis, Housing Bubble, Business News
Pablo Triana

We all seem to want to know who among us really saw the mayhem coming.

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Roubini, Taleb Talk Economic Recovery, Risk Of Second Recession On CNBC (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

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Two of the most prominent market cynics appeared on CNBC this morning. Nouriel Roubini -- affectionately known as "Dr. Doom" -- was CNBC's guest host,...

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Sam Stein

Nassim Taleb Rips Summers, Geithner, Bernanke (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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One of earliest and most outspoken experts who warned of disaster before the nation plunged into an economic crisis called out the president Monday fo...

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Once More, we get Killed by "Experts"

Pablo Triana | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iatrogenics, Economic Crisis, L.J. Henderson, Financial Crisis, Nassim Taleb, Credit Crisis, Harvard, Aaa, Business News
Pablo Triana

The credit crisis was the result of rampant iatrogenics. The term literally means physician-induced. An iatrogenic death, or disease, would be one caused by the doctor.

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Arianna Guest Hosts Squawk Box: Interviews Jim Grant, Nassim Taleb, and Roger Altman, Discusses The New Financial Euphoria

Huff TV | Posted 05.25.2011

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Huff TV

Arianna guest-hosted CNBC's Squawk Box Wednesday morning, joining Black Swan author Nassim Taleb, former Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altman, and J...

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Jason Linkins

NY Mag Suggests A Post-Stress Test Checklist

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Stress Tests, Nouriel Roubini, David Brooks, Bank Stress Tests, Banking Crisis, Banks, Financial Crisis, Nassim Taleb, New York Times, Timothy Geithner, Paul Krugman, Bank Bailout, Eat the Press, Media News

I have got to tell you all, I am LOVING THESE STRESS TESTS. For real. Who'd have thought that you could have a test in which the testees could negot...

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The Stress Tests Fail The Smell Test

Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Stress Tests, Nouriel Roubini, Obama Bank Stress Tests, Joseph Stiglitz, Economy, Bank Stress Tests, Obama Administration, Nassim Taleb, Obama Economy, Cramdown, Business News
Arianna Huffington

The results of the much-anticipated bank stress tests are finally set to be released on Thursday. But we can already give the Obama economic team a grade for the way the tests have been handled: F.

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