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Google News: New York Knicks Star Jeremy Lin Experiencing 'Black Swan' Effect
[PolicyMic] - Author Nicholas Nassim Taleb defines a “Black Swan” as an unexpected big impact event that, after the fact, is explained away with hindsight. Linsanity is a Black Swan on all accounts; unprecedented, impactful and subject to hindsight bias.
Google News: Cygne noir, revue d'exploration sémiotique
[Fabula] - Suivant, dans l'essence, les recherches de Nassim Taleb sur les limites de la connaissance et le poids de l'imprévisibilité dans nos schémas épistémiques (Le cygne noir : la puissance de l'imprévisible, Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 2008), un Cygne Noir
Warren Buffett's Latest Insurance Con (GLD, SLV, IAU, UUP, UDN)
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[ETF Daily News (blog)] - Buffett may have forgotten that it was the taxpayer who took on the roll of AIG's reinsurance policy, not the other way around, giving true meaning to The Black Swan author Nassim Taleb's statement, “We're all blind to rare events and routinely fool
Google News: Uneconomics: a challenge to the power of the economics profession
[The Guatemala Times] - Those that did, such as Nassim Taleb ↑ or Nouriel Roubini ↑ , have since acquired the status of gurus for this single reason. And yet, five years on from the origins of the crisis, the power (if not the authority) of economics in public life is
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