McKinsey Quarterly Interviews: Nassim Taleb On Current Crisis

This McKinsey interview with Nassim Taleb provides a good introduction to the Black Swan and also analyzes the current financial crisis. Its worth a read, and it’s free provided you register. Click Here To Skip The Introduction & Read The Full Interview With Nassim Taleb

Introduction (Via McKinsey)

The scholar, trader, and author Nassim Nicholas Taleb brings a decidedly contrarian view to the world of finance, statistics, and risk. In 2007, he published The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, which argues that we should never ignore the possibility or importance of rare, unpredictable events. In this interview with the Quarterly, he looks at the current financial crisis through the lens of his Black Swan thinking.

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