Posts Tagged as ‘nassim taleb’

October 22, 2008

Anatomy of a blowup

I met Nassim Nicholas Taleb a few weeks ago at a friend’s party. Fascinating guy with a variety of interpretations of the credit crisis. His own history as a derivatives trader gives him a special edge as an academic taking potshots at the financial establishment.
His theories of risk-modelling are at the center of his recent best-seller The Black [...]