‘This is the beginning,’ Wall Street guru Nassim Nicholas Taleb told Bloomberg News. ‘The beginning of an adjustment of people to reality. Because now they realize, now, it’s no longer flawles ...

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Nassim Taleb is not a fan of economists. If you have read his books or if you follow him on Twitter or Facebook, you'd know. He even engages individual economists, like Karl Whelan earlier this ...

The term black swan, introduced by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (a former option trader and retired New York University professor), refers to unforeseen and consequential events that would lead to ...

Popularized by Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his 2007 book, "The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable," the term has been used to describe a litany of market catastrophes such as the 2008 ...

He gave example of economic analyst Nassim Nicholas Taleb, while speaking on the importance of creating an “anti-fragile system” rather than merely focusing on resilient ones. “Indian ...

Antifragility was popularised by the mathematician and author Nassim Nicholas Taleb, who defines antifragility as a property of a system that becomes stronger and better in response to stress.

Economist Nassim Nicholas Taleb and his mentor, mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot, speak with Paul Solman about chain reactions and predicting the financial crisis.