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Monthly Archives: April 2012
The greatest & least visible cost of civilization…
The greatest & least visible cost of civilization is the need to make an effort for bodily and mental exercise (and call it “work”), compared to the effortless life under natural stimuli (both physical and mental).
Friends, finally…
Friends, finally settled on a barbell with the subtitle.
US:ANTIFRAGILE: Things that Gain from Disorder
UK and rest of the world: ANTIFRAGILE: How To Live in a World We Don’t Understand
Convert Debt to Equity – Scala Volpe Capital
Back in 2009, Nassim Taleb talked extensively about his prescription for solving the systemic problems within our economic system: namely, the conversion of debt into equity. Taleb argued that the prevalence of debt in the US, and global for that matter, economic system posed a grave danger and needed to be ameliorated immediately through this concept of debt-to-equity conversion. (You can read the article he co-authored with Mark Spitznagel in the Financial Times here.)
SSRN Author Page for Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Illusion of Thin-Tails Under Aggregation Nassim Nicholas Taleb NYU-Poly George A. Martin Posted:19 Jan 12 Last Revised:22 Apr 12
How to Prevent Other Financial Crises Nassim Nicholas Taleb NYU-Poly George A. Martin Posted:27 Mar 12