The Times of London has a great interview with Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the guru of uncertainty and author of The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable. The Black Swan is a great book, and especially valuable as a wake-up call to the critical importance of randomness and uncertainty in the modern world. And Taleb has proved very prescient in his prediction several years ago of all the trauma our economy is currently mired in…

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