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Paul Krugman is a danger to society!

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 11
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Economist
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I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.
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Cumulative errors depend largely on the big surprises, the big opportunities. Not only do economic, financial, and political predictors miss them, but they are quite ashamed to say anything outlandish to their clients and yet events, it turns out, are almost always outlandish.
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You get pseudo-order when you seek order you only get a measure of order and control when you embrace randomness.
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Don't cross a river if it is four feet deep on average.
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I want them poor and they deserve to be poor. You can't have capitalism without punishment.
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Karl Marx, a visionary, figured out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee.
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When you ask people, 'What's the opposite of fragile?,' they tend to say robust, resilient, adaptable, solid, strong. That's not it. The opposite of fragile is something that gains from disorder.
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He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once.
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The American people will eventually get hurt by this accumulated deficit. That's the problem. We have too much deficit. We have to find a solution.
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