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- Navigating Uncertainty
- In this unprecedented financial crisis, prior experience won't tell you what's coming next. The solution? Learn from people who lead through uncertainty every day.How often have you heard veteran colleagues in your company say "We've never seen anything like this before"? When your company, your customers, and the economy are...
- Articles 2009-05-04
- Economic Outlook: Could Things Go Too Well?
- Very few economists or pundits are expecting a sharp, quick recovery for the U.S. economy. But among the handful espousing this viewpoint are some very smart people, including well-known bear James Grant. Whether he's right or not, here?s how to set up your portfolio to capture gains in a bull...
- Articles 2009-10-19
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- Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Blame the Bystanders to the Meltdown
- Taxpayers, retirees, "perhaps even capitalism and free society" has been mugged. What's happened in the financial markets is a crime, and it's made worse by the fact there were plenty of bystanders who stood by and watched daylight robbery, say authors Nassim Nicholas Taleb, who wrote "The Black Swan", and Pablo Triana, whose...
- Blog posts 2008-12-08
- Nassim Taleb Thinks Everyone Is Stupid
- Wall Street's ability to plan for risk is a joke, as far as Nassim Nicholas Taleb is concerned. Taleb tells Fortune in Fear of a Black Swan that as "portfolio models got worse and worse in tracking reality, their use kept increasing as if nothing was happening....
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- Taking Improbable Events Seriously: An Interview with the Author of ‘The Black Swan'
- The author of The Black Swan explains why the rarity and unpredictability of certain events does not make them unimportant. 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...
- Articles 2009-01-12
- The Five Books You Need to Understand the Future of Global Investing
- I'm reading Mohamed El-Erian's guide to the future of global markets, "When Markets Collide." He has in it a few of the books he seems to have found most inspirational for his own well-regarded look at what's going on in world business. He cites "Freakonomics" by Steven...
- Blog posts 2008-10-28
- Why Forecasts Don't Work in Finance
- "Finance is an area that's dominated by rare events. The tools we have in quantitative finance do not work in what I call the 'Black Swan' domain," said author and former options trader Nassim Nicholas Taleb earlier this year. Events in the financial...
- Blog posts 2008-09-16
- Best Business Books of 2007, Part II
- David Leonhardt in the New York Times wrote about his favorite economics book of the year in No. 1 Book, and It Offers Solutions. In what he calls "a very good year" for books on economics, he named Shannon Brownlee's Overtreated tops, and his column tells why. It...
- Blog posts 2007-12-19
- BNET Bloggers on Meltdown Monday
- Talk about a crash course in finance. On Monday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average went into a veritable China Syndrome, plummeting more than 500 points, suffering its worst daily meltdown since the Sept 11, 2001 terror attacks. At the close of trading today, the index was back up 141 points,...
- Blog posts 2008-09-16
- Lone wolves and Black Swans.(methods of managing unseen and futuristic risks)
- Let's play a game. Make a list of the top ten threats to your organization. Now, I'm going to guess your greatest threat: It's number 11 (or 12 or 100). It's the one not yet on the radar screen--the next Katrina, the next Cho Seung-Hui, the next...
- Research articles 2007-07-01
- Get Davos a Zoloft
- So far, the news out of Davos would suggest capitalism should be on a suicide watch. The World Economic Forum, has featured leaders from state-dominated economies like China and Russia thumbing their noses and pointing their fingers at American-style capitalism, with pundits and professors piling on. Here's this striking bit...
- Blog posts 2009-01-29
- 5 Questions for "100 Best Business Books" co-author Todd Sattersten
- Todd Sattersten started out his career as an engineer at General Electric. Now he's president of 800CEORead, a Milwaukee specialist in business books. Todd was recently in the Boston area for an event around the new book he and Jack Covert have authored, "The 100 Best Business Books of All...
- Blog posts 2009-02-18
- How to Decide in a Time of Confusion
- A practical five-step plan to make sure you have the data (and the mind-set) you need to make great decisions in a time of unprecedented risk and uncertainty. Study Your Business Environment Goal: Compile information to understand what you know...
- Articles 2009-05-04
- My Recommended Reading List for Investors
- As I mentioned on Friday, many investors may not have gotten the education they need to make wise investing decisions. Not everyone needs to be a financial advisor, but having a basic knowledge of how markets work would go a long way in shaping your financial future for the better....
- Blog posts 2009-06-15
- Can Americans Stop Spending?
- Get over that image of Americans as debt-ridden consumption addicts. The Great Recession will teach us to find better things to do with the time and money we have left — at least for now. Right now, as we lick our financial and career wounds and poke our 401k...
- Articles 2009-06-25
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