Nassim Nicholas Taleb is “irritated,” he told Bloomberg Television on March 31st, whenever the coronavirus pandemic is referred to as a “black swan,” the term he coined for an ...

Nassim Nicholas Taleb criticized Elon Musk as "extremely cruel" yet expressed support for the Tesla CEO and his stance against Donald Trump's spending bill, saying he prays for Musk's safety amid ...

Nassim Nicholas Taleb Random House: 544 pp., $30. Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s 2007 book “The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable,” detailed the impossibility of predicting the future ...

Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a former trader and hedge fund manager, a best-selling author, and a groundbreaking theorist on risk and resilience. Taleb drew wide attention after the 2007 publication ...

NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB: Well, the system is loaded with debt that has benefited these bankers. The chairman of a certain bank now is making $23 million a year again in bonuses….

In his 2010 book The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms, Nassim Nicholas Taleb provocatively stated, "The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a ...

The massacre committed by Hamas on October 7, 2023, caused many masks to fall, including the masks of public personalities who seemed to be solid thinkers or meritorious academics. That day the ...

Nassim Nicholas Taleb, whose book “The Black Swan” foreshadowed the 2008 global financial crisis, responded to Elon Musk’s tweet about what he called a panic over the coronavirus with a ...