Tag Archives: Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The banks have hijacked the government. — [VIDEO]

Posted on August 22, 2011 by Chris F. Masse

Nassim Nicholas Taleb:

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Nassim Taleb on deficits – [VIDEO]

Posted on March 5, 2011 by Chris F. Masse

http://www.charlierose.com/view/content/11516

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Robin Hanson sends Nassim Nicholas Taleb back in the locker room, and John Delaney does the same with Jason Ruspini.

Posted on September 24, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

Posted in Analysis (Market Proposals), Analysis (Meta), Exchanges & Markets, Mechanism Designs | Tagged Bailout, combinatorial prediction markets, conditional prediction markets, Finance, InTrade, Jason Ruspini, John Delaney, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, prediction markets, Robin Hanson | 2 Comments

WORLD’S #1 PREDICTION MARKET GURU SAYS THAT NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB’S SLAM AT THE PREDICTION MARKETS IS UNSCIENTIFIC.

Posted on September 16, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

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NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB: Prediction markets are for fools. They might work for a binary election, but not in the Fourth Quadrant.

Posted on September 16, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

Posted in Analysis (Meta), Finance, Forecasting (Science & Practice) | Tagged Arnold Kling, Finance, Forecasting (Science & Practice), Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Nassim Taleb, prediction makets | 1 Comment

QUESTION TO THE READERS: Could anyone guess what Nassim Nicholas Taleb would think of the prediction markets?

Posted on April 3, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

Fortune: The idea that catastrophe can strike without warning does not seem particularly hard to understand. Why doesn’t Wall Street ever seem to allow for that possibility? And why doesn’t it learn from past catastrophes? Let me blame business schools … Continue reading →

Posted in Economics, Finance | Tagged Black Swan, event derivative markets, event derivatives, Felix Salmon, Finance, Jason Ruspini, John, Justin Wolfers, manipulation, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Nicholas Taleb, Nobel committee, prediction markets, Robin Hanson, Wall Street | 3 Comments

Nassim Nicholas Taleb likens modern-day financial markets to medicine in the 1800s, when going to a hospital in London or Paris multiplied your risk of death by four times, he says. Similarly, quants increase risk by deploying flawed financial tools designed to reduce it, he argues.

Posted on March 27, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

Via Stan Jonas, Nassim Nicholas Taleb cited in a Bloomberg article (Taleb Outsells Greenspan as Black Swan Gives Worst Turbulence): Stress tests are inherently risky because they ignore rare but potentially devastating events. [...] .. [“stress test” = Wall Street … Continue reading →

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