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Black Swans, Stock Market Crashes and the Chaos Kings

The Compound and Friends

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Chaos Kings by Didier Sornet

Chaos Kings is a new book by Naseem Shaikh. It's about the idea of profiting from outlier events, but they actually think they can see them coming. The author talks to Didier Sornet, who was a French physicist and likes to race motorcycles at 175 miles an hour in California. He uses a method that he initially discovered in the 90s trying to predict the explosion of rockets.

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