Albeit his extreme views sometimes, Taleb is interesting to watch. He is the author of the widely popular book “The Black Swan”.
In this interview, Taleb calls Ben Bernanke ‘procrustes’, Greek word for Dr. stretcher.
Revealing the secrets of time – How people’s perspective of past, present and future shapes people’s behavior…and to some extent, a country’s development.
(hat tip to Carlos Yepez for providing the link)
Bob Shiller, economics professor at Yale University and a pioneer in behavior finance talks about the importance of confidence in economic recovery. He thinks with lingering high unemployment, the national morale is sinking.
And we have to admit we simply do not know many things in the working of our economy.
Bad time doesn’t mean we can’t have fun:
