What Nassim Nicholas Taleb thinks about value investing

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Former option trader and risk analyst, now a distinguished professor at NYU. Author of the Incerto essay series, including The Black Swan and Fooled by Randomness.

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1. 14 Sept 2008

   Our readingProsperity comes from avoiding blowups, as longer life comes from avoiding death

   Their wordsYou can live longer if you avoid death, get better if you avoid bankruptcy, and become prosperous if you avoid blowups in the fourth quadrant.

   ↗The Fourth Quadrant: A Map of the Limits of Statistics (Edge, 2008)edge.org 5th of 8 in this piece