ritholtz.com - 3/28/2009
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When the Secretary of the Treasury admits that the financial system has failed, as he did in his Congressional testimony yesterday, you would assume that the country is in for a sweeping overhaul of Wall Street and the banking establishment. But that hardly seems the case with what we’ve ...
thebigmoney.com - 3/27/2009
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thebigmoney.com —
Nassim Taleb is an unlikely choice to play
the Jimmy Stewart role in a 21 st -century...
remake of the Depression-era classic Mr. Smith Goes to Washington . But the tale of a naive do-gooder who tries to remind a corrupt political class of its ...
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Mr. Taleb Goes to Washington: A black swan meets some ...
econtalk.org - 3/23/2009
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econtalk.org —
Intro. [Recorded Mar. 15, 2009] Taleb: One of
the few people who can say "I told you...
so." Critic of mastering risk and uncertainty with mathematical tools. Where right and where wrong? Not so much a critique of mathematics as of methods to estimate ...
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Taleb on the Financial Crisis
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PHOTON COURIER —
... isn't very impressed with Vikram Pandit's letter to Citigroup shareholders. Nassim Taleb thinks the Nobel-prize-winning economist Myron Scholes should stop making recommendations about economic policy. ...
PHOTON COURIER —
... isn't very impressed with Vikram Pandit's letter to Citigroup shareholders. Nassim Taleb thinks the Nobel-prize-winning economist Myron Scholes should stop making recommendations about economic policy. ...
PHOTON COURIER —
... isn't very impressed with Vikram Pandit's letter to Citigroup shareholders. Nassim Taleb thinks the Nobel-prize-winning economist Myron Scholes should stop making recommendations about economic policy. ...
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