"Black Swan" (and more recently, "Antifragile") author Nassim Taleb is known for, among other things, his impassioned arguments against his detractors (especially on Twitter and Facebook). Yesterday, ...

When the economic future feels more iffy than ever, randomness should not be something to fear but rather, something to exploit. Author-provacateur Nassim Taleb talks with Fast Company about the ...

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- The recent Twitter spat between “Black Swan” author Nassim Nicholas Taleb and quant investing pioneer Cliff Asness over hedging against highly remote events reminded me why Luke ...

People should pay attention to the events in the Middle East from a humanitarian perspective but ignore them as investors, according to author Nassim Taleb. "The connection between the markets and ...

A few weeks ago, I posted an article on Forbes called Sorry Nassim Taleb, Technology Actually Does Matter in which I explained a number of ways that technology has transformed business and society. Mr ...

While for just about everyone involved in the markets the last two years of financial history have been a massacre, they have been a long victory lap for . Taleb is the author of The Black Swan, the ...

Nassim Taleb was back in the news in April as one of his old colleagues posted a remarkable return for his hedge fund last quarter. Mark Spitznagel of Universa Investments posted a 4,144% return as ...

Nassim Taleb is one of the greatest investors, traders and thinkers of our time. As the founder and former hedge fund manager at Empirica Capital, Taleb was reported to have made an incredible 60% ...

You might have heard of Nassim Taleb. He writes books about how unexpected things happen sometimes and how he’s much smarter than everyone else. I appear to have upset Mr. Taleb by being less than ...

The author of The Black Swan is back with a sweeping new theory: The longer a certain idea or technology has been around, the longer we can expect it to survive. In the physical world, lifespans are ...

Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s 2007 book “The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable,” detailed the impossibility of predicting the future, which jerks forward by way of massive changes such as the ...