Nassim Nicholas Taleb is an applied statistician and derivatives trader-turned-philosopher, and author of The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable.
In 2007 Nassim Nicholas Taleb created a widely-spread meme and best-selling book on Black Swans, highly unexpected events that carry major scale and impact.
From an investor's perspective, the idea of planning for low-probability, high-consequence events is well treated in Nassim Nicholas Taleb's book The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable.
The report gives a list of eight "Black Swan" scenarios -- a reference to Nassim Nicholas Taleb's book "Black Swan, " which posits that history is built on unforeseeable, surprise events.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of The Black Swan (the bestselling econ-philosophy book, not the flick), is someone who has made just such an effort to grace the world with discrete shavings of his perspicacity.
As Nassim Nicholas Taleb describes it in his new book Anti-Fragile: Things that Gain from Disorder (Random House, 2012), it creates a fragile system that does not scale, and suffers from adverse market changes.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the author of The Black Swan fame has written a new book titled Anti-Fragile: Things That Gain From Disorder in which he provides a reasoned basis for believing that the current Fed policy will bring us way more inflation and much sooner than expected.
Or, as the concept-originator, Nicholas Nassim Taleb did, you could simply bet against what is predictable rather than for a speculative Black Swan.
These "known unknowns" he dubbed "grey swans", in a reference to Nicholas Nassim Taleb's book "The Black Swan", about the nature of unpredictability.
Though the line was widely criticized by many as gobbledygook, those who stopped to think realized he had very pithily summarized entire books by Nicholas Nassim Taleb about uncertainty and Black Swans.
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