Nassim Nicholas Taleb has devoted his life to immersing himself in problems of luck, randomness, human error, probability, and the philosophy of knowledge. He managed to transform his interests into ...

Nassim Taleb, one of the world's most influential thought leaders in the area of statistics, spoke with Benzinga partner James Altucher this Tuesday. Only the second interview he's given in 2014, ...

Nassim Nicholas Taleb achieved notoriety with several books written before the housing crisis, criticizing the financial industry for putting so much faith in its predictions. He argued in “Fooled by ...

Mamas, don’t let your babies grow up to be investment professionals. That’s the argument Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the investment expert and math whiz who wrote the influential book The Black Swan, is ...

Former options trader Nassim Taleb is an essayist specializing in issues of probability, most famously developed in the influential 2007 book, The Black Swan.Nicole Bengiveno / New York Times / Redux ...

Nassim Taleb warns against drawing wrong conclusions from noisy market headlines. He criticizes the US for high debt and low growth, leading a fragile financial system. The US is stuck with ...