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• Senegalese Authorities Deport Mauritanian Terror Suspect

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 155
  Senegalese authorities have deported back to Nouakchott the Mauritanian citizen Taleb Ould Ahmednah. Ould Ahmednah is accused of being a member of the Al Qaeda wing in the Islamic Maghreb (AQMI). He was arrested two months ago in Dakar where he was questioned by local authorities about his false papers. In the ...
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• The Taleb Group of Companies

  
  Business. Event. Classified. UAE 2010 — Authority: 455
  Incorporated in 1955,  The Taleb Group of Companies completes 50 years of operations. The Group first ventured into the field of Real Estate at a time when the country was transforming itself from the traditional pearl industry to the emerging oil & gas, the industry of the new era. Now with the group’s ...
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• Sending the Christmas card to Noah !! :-)

  
  LG15 Today — Authority: 447
  Origins: Noah Biorkman is a 5-year-old boy who was diagnosed with Stage IV neuroblastoma in February 2007. Although he went into remission in August 2007, his family says, in September 2008 Noah "relapsed with lesions in his right arm and right leg," and "after going through six different trials, the cancer ...
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• n=1 Self-Experimentation Positioning: How to Not be Fooled by Randomness

  
  healthcare epistemocrat — Authority: 117
  Living in a world that we dont understand is a humbling, human endeavor. The history of science and the history of medicine teach us that causation is murky, at best, and that things often work for reasons that we dont understand. People have been tackling this conundrum for many years, in various ways, and there ...
  4 days ago

• "Against the backdrop of the evolution of media and its powerful gathering of news material and data,..."

  
  Leftover Takeout — Authority: 433
  “Against the backdrop of the evolution of media and its powerful gathering of news material and data, all of the world’s happenings are trimmed like a lawn by a mower, with fragments of information flying about from place to place through the media as grass flies through the air. These broken pieces of information ...
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• Yousef Abu-Taleb opens an Eqal Umbrella

  
  LG15 Today — Authority: 447
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  5 days ago

• "I was in Korea last week with a collection of suit-wearing hotshots. On a panel sat Takatoshi Kato,..."

  
  Leftover Takeout — Authority: 433
  “I was in Korea last week with a collection of suit-wearing hotshots. On a panel sat Takatoshi Kato, IMF Deputy Managing Director. Before the discussion he gave us a powerpoint lecture showing the IMF projections for 2010, 2011, …, 2014. I could not control myself and got into a state of rage. I told the audience ...
  6 days ago

• Historically, the Only Reserve a Central Bank Can Trust is Gold

  
  The Daily Reckoning Australia — Authority: 551
  After spending a week trying to figure out how to run a wilderness ranch here in Argentina...and a few days with our old cowboy friends, Doug Casey, Rick Rule and Porter Stansberry...were back in Buenos Aires. Were back in civilization... Wait...you call this civilization? Looks more like Bubble Land again! Gold is ...
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• Taleb on the IMF “Expert Problem” and How to Avoid Charlatans

  
  The Daily Reckoning — Authority: 640
  Recently attending a conference in Korea, author of The Black Swan Nassim Nicholas Taleb, was enraged to be on a panel with an IMF deputy managing director. The reason? The presenter had the gall to show IMF projections beginning in 2010 and continuing all the way through until 2014. As Taleb put it, “I told the ...
  1 week ago

• My Black Swan

  
  Capital is Scarce — Authority: 121
  I bought a farm. I bought a farm located in an area that receives about 18 inches of rain per year. The year that I bought the farm we received about 1 inch of rain. A neighbor of mine who had lived in the area for over 80 years told me this was the driest year he had ever seen. This was my black swan. I was ...
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• Nassim Taleb

  
  Capital is Scarce — Authority: 121
  The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
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• Black Swan Events

  
  husdal.com — Authority: 460
  Black Swan events – should we even bother? The October issue of the Harvard Business Review had a special spotlight on risk, and featured an article by Nassim M Taleb , Daniel G Goldstein and Mark W Spitznagel on The Six Mistakes Executives Make in Risk Management . The article discusses the ...
  1 week ago

• The man who predicted the financial crisis, Part III

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 730
  I’m not an aggressive consumer of financial journalism, so it has to be something of a coincidence that I’ve come across three separate items that chronicle the dark predictions of three separate men who warned of an impending financial crisis. The first two are discussed below. The third is Nassim ...
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• Bald Men with Large Brains

  
  Capital is Scarce — Authority: 121
  If you are serious about this business of trading, or investing, you must watch this. If youre really serious you should watch it twice. (you have to click on the watch full progarm icon) My formal education is very limited; however my experience and "informal" education is quite vast. I find that combination ...
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• Get ready for Extremistan

  
  Humble Student of the Markets — Authority: 488
  Nicholas Nassim Taleb, the author of The Black Swan , has been talking about the states of Mediocristan and Extremistan . The two concepts has been described as follows : "Mediocristan" and "Extremistan" are two world domains. In the former, extremes exist but are inconsequential, in the latter, extremes are ...
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• Hedge funds “a good thing”, says Taleb

  
  Hedge Hub — Authority: 132
  Regulators are going after the wrong target by trying to impose stricter rules on hedge funds, according to Nassim Nicholas Taleb , high-profile author of credit crisis hit The Black Swan. Taking a decidedly negative view of banks, Taleb told the Hedge 2009 conference in London today that a bank is essentially ...
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• Black swans, debt, risk and mother nature ~ Taleb audio

  
  News Kontent — Authority: 423
  Taleb soars over pompous journos, the clueless predictions of economists and a politician called David. Not to be missed. The idea that All swans are white" was held to be true, in all possible worlds until black swans were found in Western Australia. That discovery changed, forever, the way we view the world and ...
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• Taleb on Skepticism

  
  Leading Questions — Authority: 118
  Smart people many times outsmart themselves because they are confident about their intellectual ability. I place all politicians in this classification. The result is not an expansive mind open to truth or reality, but rather a closed mine of opinion and suspicion. When our minds become closed, we treat our opinions ...
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• Proverbial Knowledge: Clinical Wisdom in the Art of Living as a Patient of One

  
  healthcare epistemocrat — Authority: 117
  An epistemocrat is a Patient of One clinician in the practice of n=1 philosophy, in the bricolage (and meritage) of self-experiments (clinical trials) with lifestyle design and m=1 my-thology . Its ancestral, proverbial knowledge in the clinical practice of leading lives (not careers): taking general ...
  1 week ago

• Western Saharan hunger-strikers enter fourth week in the face of Moroccan intransigence

  
  asvdh — Authority: 132
  Today is the twenty-third day of hunger strike for three Western Saharan political prisoners detained in the Moroccan administered civil prison (the Black Prison or Carcel Negra) of El-Aaiun, Western Sahara. They demand the improvement of their conditions of detention, for better treatment of political prisoners and ...
  2 weeks ago

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