Taleb wrote about the idea of a black swan event in a 2007 book prior to the events of the 2008 financial crisis. Taleb argued that because black swan events are impossible to predict due to their ...

(Bloomberg) -- The Black Swan author Nassim Taleb is warning that Monday’s brutal selloff in Nvidia Corp. is just a taste of what’s in store for investors who blindly piled into Wall Street ...

"Black Swan" author Nassim Taleb has never shied away from warning investors about the looming risks in the stock market, and a new interview with CNBC included just that. Taleb is an advisor to ...

Taleb made money on put options he bought on Russian banks, the book noted. By 2007, he had enough experience under his belt to publish the book, "The Black Swan," where he popularized the term as ...

The firm's scientific advisor is Nassim Taleb, the author of "The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable." The S&P has soared by nearly 30% from its October lows to trade at record highs ...

Taleb experienced his first black swan event during his adolescence when his once-peaceful homeland of Lebanon plunged into civil war. But it wasn’t until he profited enormously from the Black ...

Risk analyst and author Nassim Nicholas Taleb, in his 2007 book "The Black Swan," argued that this belief is mistaken, since "middle-of-the-road risks" are not related in any straightforward way ...

Vikki Velasquez is a researcher and writer who has managed, coordinated, and directed various community and nonprofit organizations. She has conducted in-depth research on social and economic ...

More than 300 years later, in 2007, Nassim Nicholas Taleb wrote an influential book called The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable. Taleb argued that Black Swan events (e.g., 9/11 or ...