Nassim Nicholas Taleb [a] (/ ˈ t ɑː l ə b /; alternatively Nessim or Nissim; born 12 September 1960) is a Lebanese-American essayist, mathematical statistician, former option trader, risk analyst, and aphorist.

Jan 15, 2025 · Public talk by Nassim Nicholas Taleb at the Jassim Al-Qatami Engineering Lecture Hall on December 9, 2024, exploring fragility, robustness, and antifragility with insights on Lebanon and Palestine. Taleb begins speaking at 55:39.

1 day ago · Speaking at Miami Hedge Fund Week, Taleb told Bloomberg News that Nvidia could face drops two to three times the size of Monday's 17% decline, which wiped out $589 billion in market value.

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’s AI-driven ...

About: author of the INCERTO a philosophical and practical essay on uncertainty (Skin In the Game, Antifragile , The Black Swan, Fooled by Randomness, and The Bed of Procrustes), a (so far) 5-volume "investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk,and decision making when we don’t understand the world, exp...

1 day ago · Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of the book "The Black Swan." Photographer: Scott Eells/Bloomberg via Getty Images. Rankings. 100 Best Companies; Fortune 500; Global 500; Fortune 500 Europe;

4 days ago · Nassim Taleb, Universa Investments distinguished scientific advisor and ‘The Black Swan’ author, joins ‘Squawk Box’ to discuss the latest market trends, what to make of the market sell-off, the Fed’s inflation fight, interest rate outlook, bitcoin’s volatility, and more.

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable is a 2007 book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, who is a former options trader. The book focuses on the extreme impact of rare and unpredictable outlier events—and the human tendency to find simplistic explanations for these events, retrospectively. Taleb calls this the Black Swan theory.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a Lebanese-American essayist, mathematical statistician, former option trader, risk analyst, and aphorist. His work concerns problems o...

Nassim Taleb is a literary essayist, hedge fund manager, derivatives trader and professor of risk engineering at The Polytechnic Institute of New York University. But he is best known these days as the author of The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable.