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Nassim Taleb Criticizes Obama, Bernanke, and Summers



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The Black Swan author Nassim Nicholas Taleb addresses the financial missteps of the Obama administration. "The problem we have in America is that nobody has addressed the fundamental error." He emphasizes over-reliance on forecasts as the root of the problem.
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Nassim Taleb is the best-selling author of Fooled By Randomness and The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable. So called 'Black Swan Events' are climactic, random and hard-to-predict events that have been entirely unexpected, and often hitherto perceived to be impossible.
At this breakfast event chaired by Danny Finkelstein, Comment Editor of the Times, Nassim Taleb explains the relevance of his ideas to the economic crisis, and argue for measures to create a more Black Swan-robust society. David Cameron responds and takes part in a discussion with the audience.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb is an essayist, belletrist, and researcher.
Taleb is currently a researcher at London Business School. He the Deans Professor in the Sciences of Uncertainty University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Fellow in Mathematics in Finance, Adjunct Professor of Mathematics at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University (since 1999), and research fellow, Wharton School Financial Institutions Center, and Chairman, Empirica LLC.
Taleb held senior trading positions with trading houses in New York and London and operated as a floor trader before founding Empirica LLC. His degrees include an MBA from the Wharton School and a Ph.D. from the University of Paris. He is the author of Dynamic Hedging, Fooled by Randomness, and The Black Swan.


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What has President ... ( 10 months ago by marsCubed)
What has President Obama brought us?
International agreements not to pull each other's economies to pieces in laissez fair panic.
Moves to close private banks and worst transfer pricing scams; so we get to use real numbers.
A slow down and management strategy which puts people into economically useful employment (such as public health investment)
Innovative green energy strategies where the USA will excel. It is a lucrative new market strategy.
Expert advice, real data and forecasts, not dogmas.
I love that people ... ( 10 months ago by eeedel)
I love that people criticize the president. Whomever it may be and for whatever reason... but what I DON'T like is when people come out of the woodworks who were COMPLETELY SILENT DURING THE LAST 8 YEARS. People like that should kindly shut the hell up.
This douchebag is ... ( 10 months ago by snakedad)
This douchebag is one of the people who pay the lowest taxes in the industrialized world and he's complaining about high taxes.
I don't think Mr ... ( 10 months ago by LeGioNoFZioN)
I don't think Mr Taleb is like that, I think he is simply a knowledgable economist
I'm a big fan of ... ( 10 months ago by beltane3)
I'm a big fan of this gentleman, think he is fantastic. You can apply his logic in a number of ways.
His complaint isn't ... ( 10 months ago by eirefrance)
His complaint isn't really about taxes per se, but rather the effect taxes can have on rewarding failure and punishing success. I agree with his analysis of how the Obama Administration is working with the same finance industry/economist insiders who helped steer us toward this mess.
all the supportors ... ( 10 months ago by liber8me)
all the supportors of obama are a bunch of hypocrites. when bush was in power they mobilised mass protests against the war, but now that a democrat is in power the organisers cannot get anyone to volenteer to take action against the continuing wars
I dont know where ... ( 10 months ago by eeedel)
I dont know where you live, but there are anti war efforts taking place ALL THE TIME. You're thinking about it during the last 9-10 months... stretch it out over the next 3 years and its about the same rate as the last administration.
Someone is reading ... ( 10 months ago by AFRIKTODAY)
Someone is reading Von Mises!
Taleb is finally ... ( 10 months ago by special1740)
Taleb is finally talking about the Federal Reserve. He would mumble on the subject before.
Sneaky dude... Very sneaky dude.
He still has not come up with the proposal of how to cover Medicare and Social Security entitlements.
"Harvard endowment ... ( 10 months ago by special1740)
"Harvard endowment is down by 1/3, officially...
but if you were to mark-to-market: that would be more interesting... :-)"
Ouch!
LMAO!!!!!!!!!
Taleb is one of the ... ( 9 months ago by kraskata2012)
Taleb is one of the few people who make sense. Summers is stupid, ignorant and greedy son of a bitch.
Hey! I believe in ... ( 8 months ago by morrissey8485)
Hey! I believe in Sana damn it! LOL!!!!!
Why didn't Obama go ... ( 8 months ago by farhadcoyote)
Why didn't Obama go and run for presidency in a socialist country? Why did he decide to run in a capitalist country? He is doing everything 180 degrees off where it should be.
... and a sexist ... ( 7 months ago by mprat001)
... and a sexist pig ... and an arrogant jerk ... and a narcoleptic ...
Summers got paid ... ( 7 months ago by kraskata2012)
Summers got paid millions for making speeches at corporate events of the very same companies that he proposed to be bailed out. That makes him a hypocrite, too!
Brilliant speaker. ... ( 5 months ago by jennperez78)
Brilliant speaker. We live in a complex system that delivers extreme deviations. Current risk management and economic analyses methods fail us in such a system because of low predictability. What should we do in such an environment? At the IMD OWP 2010, Nassim Nicholas Taleb will present simple rules (lower leverage, less reliance on deficit spending, less mathematical risk management) for a black swan robust economic system
We live in a ... ( 4 months ago by IMD)
We live in a complex system that delivers extreme deviations. Current risk management and economic analyses methods fail us in such a system because of low predictability. What should we do in such an environment? At the IMD OWP 2010, Nassim Nicholas Taleb will present simple rules (lower leverage, less reliance on deficit spending, less mathematical risk management) for a black swan robust economic system.
Obama could care ... ( 3 months ago by pismo10)
Obama could care less long term, he just wants to buy himself the next election and that's is it...
Obama could care ... ( 3 months ago by pismo10)
Obama could care less long term, he just wants to buy himself the next election and that's is it...
Obama could care ... ( 3 months ago by pismo10)
Obama could care less long term, he just wants to buy himself the next election and that's is it...
I like Taleb, he's ... ( 1 month ago by equsnarnd)
I like Taleb, he's a good guy and intelligent but he hasn't got a clue when it comes to understanding economics. He needs to read a simple text like Economics in One Lesson. He needs to grasp some of the macro economic concepts and not those of the Keynesians.
@equsnarnd Uh, he's ... ( 6 days ago by chrisjohnsonfl)
@equsnarnd Uh, he's referenced Hazlitt, Hayek and other Austrian economists in interviews and writings. He has a pretty strong idea of understanding economics. He in no way supports Keynesian theories or concepts. He is about keeping things small and lowering the fragility by limiting the amount of government control.
@equsnarnd Hate ... ( 5 days ago by chrisjohnsonfl)
@equsnarnd Hate mail from banks is his discussing how banks were doing dangerous things with other people's money but sending threatening letters to a single person who owed very little. He doesn't support Cash for Clunkers, I realize he has an accent but listen, he states he discourages such deficit spending because it gave those who bought non-eco-friendly cars a chance to get money back. Unlike him. He never states that Bernanke is a 'great Central Banker'. Read the title 'Taleb criticizes.



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