Nassim Taleb

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Taleb's ideas proved particularly prescient shortly after The Black Swan was published in 2007, just months before the subprime mortgage crisis rocked global markets, triggering unprecedented government bailouts and hundreds of billions of dollars in losses. Unforeseen and hugely devastating, the crisis unfolded almost exactly as Taleb suggested it could.

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