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April 26, 2010 - 6:30 pm
Monday, April, 26 • 6:30PM - 8:30PM
Join in the discussion--the book is BLACK SWAN: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, by Nicholas Taleb.
One reader said:
"According to critic Harold Bloom, Hamlet's predicament is not "that he thinks too much" but rather that "he thinks too well," being ultimately "unable to rest in illusions of any kind." The same could be said for philosopher, essayist and trader Nassim Nicholas Taleb, who finds something rotten in misguided yet supremely confident investment gurus, traders, hedge fund managers, Wall Street bankers, M.B.A.s, CEOs, Nobel-winning economists and others who claim that they can predict the future and explain the past. Like everyone else, says Taleb, these so-called "experts" fail to appreciate "black swans": highly consequential but unlikely events that render predictions and standard explanations worse than worthless."
We'll discuss this book over dinner at the home of a CAGLCC member. Limited space. $15 members, $25 non-members. (must purchase book separately). Cost includes dinner. Limited space, so please register soon!