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Nassim Nicholas Taleb on the Financial Crisis

Mar 23, 2009
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 4min
2
Is the Option Value a Good Thing?
03:50 • 2min
3
The Moral Hazard Problem
06:20 • 2min
4
What Is Value at Risk?
08:36 • 5min
5
The Titanic Heads Off to Sea
13:41 • 3min
6
What's the Story, Pennies?
16:41 • 2min
7
The Great Moderation of Volatility
18:20 • 2min
8
Is Complexity Rising After 19 95?
20:18 • 2min
9
The World's Greatest Dentist
22:12 • 2min
10
How Complexity Cannot Tolerate Leverage Anymore
24:21 • 2min
11
Speculative Issue in a Commodity Price Competition
26:44 • 4min
12
Do We Need More Regulation?
30:53 • 2min
13
The Role of Regulators in Bringing This Crisis?
32:36 • 2min
14
Do You Think Regulation Played a Role in Creating the Problem?
34:13 • 2min
15
What's Your Highest Value?
35:47 • 5min
16
How to Live in a World We Don't Understand
40:50 • 2min
17
How to Think Rationally About Probability and Uncertainty and Risk
42:27 • 4min
18
Is It Possible to Choose a Smarter Child?
46:02 • 2min
19
I Don't Know, No, God Knows.
48:02 • 2min
20
What Does Probability Have to Do With Religion?
50:05 • 2min
21
I'm a Hypocrite, in Ai Religions
52:19 • 2min
22
Econ Talk, Partotesa Philosophical Thinking
54:18 • 2min