Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of Fooled By Randomness and The Black Swan (not the Aronofsky movie), was on the BBC's Newsnight with Emily Maitlis to discuss the multi-billion JP Morgan trading disaster. One of the most vocal critics of the value-at-risk ...

Taleb Rifai, Secretary-General, UNWTO: We have presented the first edition of "The Golden Book" to Mexican President Calderon. We are met with a curious look when we present the case of travel and tourism to global leaders, but within ten minutes of they ...

Here’s Nassim Taleb, author of Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan, and current Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, David Cameron, discussing what measures governments should take in order to create a more ”Black Swan-Robust” society.

GuruFocus "Real Time Picks" reports the stock purchases and sales that Gurus have made within the prior 2 weeks. The report time lag can be as short as 3 days after the date of the transaction. This is just one of the features provided with ...

Abdur Razzak, the nephew of Taleb Biswas, and his men equipped with sharp weapons stormed the house of his uncle at Goppara village around 9:30am, said Anwar Hossain, officer-in-charge (OC) of Baraigram Police Station. They stabbed the family members of ...

“There is progress, there is an atmosphere of optimism after the Western powers responded to our requests,” Taleb Mahdi, a member of Iran’s delegation, said in an interview. Chinese, French, German, Russian, British and U.S. negotiators ...

Mining in Mauritania earned the country $375 million last year, including $281 million from sales of iron ore, Oil, Energy and Mines Minister Taleb Ould Abdivall said in an interview yesterday on state-owned television. Mauritania granted seven ...

The decision was confirmed during an official visit of UNWTO Secretary-General, Taleb Rifai. On the occasion, highlighting the role of tourism in the future of Myanmar, President Sein joined the UNWTO/WTTC Global Leaders for Tourism Campaign.

This results from a psychological phenomenon known as a Taleb distribution and leads to the downfall of many a trader. A Taleb distribution — a term coined by economists Wolf and Kay and named after Nassim Taleb — describes a return’s ...

“UNWTO applauds the commitment of the G20 Ministers of Tourism to visa facilitation,” said UNWTO Secretary-General, Taleb Rifai, on the occasion of the 4th Meeting of the T20. “This Declaration is an extremely positive signal to the international ...