Ten books that can shape Taleb’s thinking—from stoicism to statistics, anthropology to paradox, each one that can ...

From history to money and morality, these ten books offer sharper insight than most schools. They train your mind where ...

Should we view the trade war as a new black or gray swan event? In his well-known book, The Black Swan: The Impact of the ...

Nassim Taleb was back in the news in April as one of his old colleagues posted a remarkable return for his hedge fund last quarter. Mark Spitznagel of Universa Investments posted a 4,144% return ...

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India’s rising middle class, with increased disposable incomes and evolving lifestyle aspirations, is more willing than ...

Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of the bestselling book on black swan events, delves deeper into the u The bestselling economist Nassim Nicholas Taleb argues that we can’t make the world financial ...

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 ...

‘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 ...

Insuring your portfolio against a “black swan” event in the financial markets isn’t as easy as you’d think. Black-swans events are rare — hence the name — but when they happen they are ...

Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of Black Swan and Antifragile, is a pretty intense person. He's vocal about his displeasure with most economists, academics and journalists. He's usually wearing black.

Risk analyst and author Nassim Nicholas Taleb, in his 2007 book "The Black Swan," argued that this belief is mistaken, since "middle-of-the-road risks" are not related in any straightforward way ...