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Nassim Taleb Issues for Investment Officers Now

HatTip to Dave Lull.

 

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ai5000 interviews Nassim Taleb
This is a link to the streaming video (which wasn’t  playing very well the day I discovered it. Just added the YouTube links). So I made an audio recording of it. You’ll hear a few skips and pops and the last few seconds of the video wouldn’t play, but it’s interesting to hear NNT share a few more specifics of his (then, Feb 2010) investment strategy.

Nassim Taleb Feb. 2010 Issues for CIOs Now.mp3

What I call cash, I’ve changed my definition of cash, my cash is what I call the numerator. It’s not just cash because I’m afraid of inflation. So I have some inflation-linked securities, what I call repository of value. I have a collection of currencies and metals. So it’s a combination of inflation-linked currencies and metals, but very short term… treasury bills, from governments… is what I call cash.

Nassim Taleb, on why massive spending is sparking fears of a greater financial crisis.

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FoxBusinessNetwork — May 14, 2010 — Nassim Taleb, author of The Black Swan, on why massive spending is sparking fears of a greater financial crisis.

The Black Swan Report

Update 8/11/10 Turns out one need only be logged in to Twitter to see NNT’s tweets. It does appear the RSS feed is also login protected.

Update 8/8/10 It would appear NNT has “protected” his tweets. Not sure what that means exactly. There is the option to Send Request. Never seen that before. It looks to me like NNT has managed to turn Twitter into an anti-social media!

NNT turned off his tweets.