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"The Black Swan" author Nassim Taleb says he's focused on hedging against a market collapse. He said the market is flashing parallels to prior crashes, noting that it is the most fragile in 20 years.
The stock market crashed last month on recession fears but has since soared to fresh record highs as the Federal Reserve began cutting rates and China unveiled stimulus measures.
A black swan (Cygnus atratus) in Australia. The black swan theory or theory of black swan events is a metaphor that describes an event that comes as a surprise, has a major effect, and is often inappropriately rationalized after the fact with the benefit of hindsight. The term is based on a Latin expression which presumed that black swans did ...
The federal government will have less capacity to respond, and the economy could enter a recession by the end of this year, Mark Spitznagel predicted.
Mark Spitznagel (/ ˈ s p ɪ t s n eɪ ɡ əl /; born March 5, 1971) is an American investor and hedge fund manager.He is the founder, owner, and chief investment officer of Universa Investments, a hedge fund management firm based in Miami, Florida.
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable is a 2007 book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, who is a former options trader. The book focuses on the extreme impact of rare and unpredictable outlier events—and the human tendency to find simplistic explanations for these events, retrospectively.
‘Black Swan’ hedge funder warns a recession is coming this year—and the biggest market bubble in history will soon pop Will Daniel August 16, 2024 at 9:09 AM
Taleb criticized risk management methods used by the finance industry and warned about financial crises, subsequently profiting from the Black Monday (1987) and the 2007–2008 financial crisis. [6] He advocates what he calls a "black swan robust" society, meaning a society that can withstand difficult-to-predict events. [7]