re: Taleb goes into self-imposed exile

Good one.

I take it you folks hang on to this guy's every word because he wrote a book about a black swan. What's the point of reading about a black swan if you can't see them coming anyway, much less spending part of your life writing about it. Sounds like an a-hole

Anyway, from here

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Companies who made mistakes and fragilized the system are being subsidized by the countercyclical ones who make it more robust.

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Sucks, but how are you going to fix it without causing pain for everyone?

From JT's link

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I need to withdraw as immediately as possible

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But not before I write this

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bet on the next mistake by Bernanke, Summers, and Geithner

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What a pompous a-hole

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(briefly) emerge from my hiatus

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To promote his book and his self. Looks like he's got a few followers hook, line, and sinker