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Someone bemoaned that there were so few women in economics. But there are also very few men in economics.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 11
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They are born, put in a box they go home to live in a box they study by ticking boxes they go to what is called work in a box, where they sit in their cubicle box they drive to the grocery store in a box to buy food in a box they talk about thinking outside the box and when they die they are put in a box.
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I don't know anyone on Wall Street who goes to work every day thinking of anything but how to increase their bonus.
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There are secrets to our world that only practice can reveal, and no opinion or analysis will ever capture in full.
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History is opaque. You see what comes out, not the script that produces events, [...] The generator of historical events is different from the events themselves, much as the minds of the gods cannot be read just by witnessing their deeds.
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But they never notice the following inconsistency: this so-called worst-case event, when it happened, exceeded the worst case at the time.
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Globalization has created this interlocking fragility. At no time in the history of the universe has the cancellation of a Christmas order in New York meant layoffs in China.
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The fool generalizes the particular the nerd particularizes the general some do both and the wise does neither
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Private equity has absolutely no reason to exist. The private equity holder has all the upside and the banks all the downside.
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The fastest way to become rich is to socialize with the poor the fastest way to become poor is to socialize with the rich.
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What we do today has nothing to do with capitalism or socialism. It is a crony type of system that transfers money to the coffers of bureaucrats.
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My nightmare scenario is that the government saves Citibank once again, as well as the other banks, and business resumes as usual. Then, the next time the system breaks, it breaks much, much bigger.
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