Wealth quote of the day by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, “You are rich if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.” From Black Swan to antifragility: why Taleb says avoid the “fragile middle” in volatile marketsWealth quote of the day by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, “You are rich if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.” Nassim Nicholas T...
16 Jan, 2026, 09.09 PM IST
Nassim Taleb sounds alarm: Hedge now as debt crisis threatens market crashUS stock market crash warning: Nassim Taleb warns investors that the current stock market rally masks a looming US debt crisis, a visible t...
10 Oct, 2025, 05.53 PM IST
Iraqi actress Enas Taleb to sue ‘The Economist’ for using her picture in article on ‘fat women’, calls it an insult to Arab womenTaleb said that it was disappointing that an international label chose to label her.
12 Aug, 2022, 02.01 PM IST
Once an admirer, Nassim Taleb now says Bitcoin is worth zeroThe noted author said that Bitcoin can neither be a short-term or long-term store of value, cannot operate as a reliable hedge against infl...
23 Jun, 2021, 10.12 AM IST
Musk, Taleb and business leaders you can trustBusiness leaders being frank about failure and its consequences and responsibilities are rare, most so in India. As the witticism goes, onl...
26 Dec, 2019, 06.58 AM IST
Can you calculate and manage risk? Here's what experts sayThe idea that risk is something that can be easily calculated and managed is fundamentally wrong, even disastrous.
12 Aug, 2019, 06.30 AM IST
Reading Taleb: Skin in the Game more about sharing disincentives than incentivesTaleb takes the idea of "skin in the game" much further and shows how lack of a skin in the game lies at the bottom of most of the ills of ...
09 Mar, 2018, 09.12 AM IST
When Nassim Nicholas Taleb told Ashok Wadhwa: Trump understands successAnne Waldman, Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni recently came together for a dinner hosted by Ashok Wadhwa.
30 Jan, 2017, 12.44 PM IST
Nassim Nicholas Taleb uncensored: Gordon Brown is 'an idiot', Obama a 'fossil system'Taleb calls a spade a spade, and probably a few things more. The world-famous economist and writer doesn’t mince his words.
24 Jan, 2017, 11.19 AM IST
Who called it right for Donald Trump? A professor, a filmmaker and Nassim Nicholas TalebTaleb has also said a Trump presidency wasn’t going to be as cataclysmic as most people believe it will be. “In the end, Trump is a real es...
12 Nov, 2016, 09.18 AM IST
ET GBS: Fixers, not corruption, slowing India, says Nassim TalebNassim Nicholas Taleb, author of 2007 bestseller The Black Swan, today said India is not a fragile country because it is not centralised.
30 Jan, 2016, 08.30 PM IST
ET GBS 2015: PM Narendra Modi is trying to get business done, says Nassim Nicholas TalebRenowned academic says he is impressed with PM Narendra Modi’s vision — from schools to administration to economics.
19 Jan, 2015, 07.17 AM IST
ET GBS 2015: Forum kept everyone engaged, Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s tweets on PM Modi stole the showTaleb’s tweets were unusual in that it’s rare for a disruptively smart theoretician to find common ground with a head of government.
19 Jan, 2015, 04.00 AM IST
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw and Black Swan author Nassim Nicholas Taleb in Twitter spat over GM benefitsShaw, with over lakh followers on Twitter, is an active participant on the social media site when it comes to issues of science and medicin...
18 Nov, 2014, 12.20 PM IST
- Individuals with no stakes are bad decision-makers
A fragile investment strategy is one that is easily affected by events; while a robust one is supposed to be resilient.
25 Jun, 2012, 03.28 AM IST
- Not afraid of euro, but US gives me the jitters: Nassim Taleb
A breakup of the euro "is not a big deal", Taleb said on Tuesday at an event in Montreal hosted by the Alternative Investment Management As...
31 May, 2012, 02.36 AM IST
- Black Swan author for bank nationalisation
Bank nationalisations are absolutely necessary to avoid taxpayers having to bear the burden of their risk-taking, said Nassim Nicholas Tale...
30 Jan, 2009, 12.33 AM IST