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TalkingDog

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51. Nassim Nicholas Taleb: A Crazier Future

Sat May 12, 2012, 07:36 PM

May 2012

http://fora.tv/2008/02/04/Nassim_Nicholas_Taleb_A_Crazier_Future

1.5 hours but an interesting talk.

A good follow up article from 2009

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/5d5aa24e-23a4-11de-996a-00144feabdc0.html

The writer is a veteran trader, a distinguished professor at New York University’s Polytechnic Institute and the author of The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

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