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A Map and Simple Heuristic to Detect Fragility, Antifragility, and Model Error — Taleb/SSRN
Capital One to buy ING’s U.S. online bank for $9 billion — Reuters
Why it’s important to evaluate the Millennium Villages — Boston Review
AARP dropping its longstanding opposition to cutting Social Security benefits — WSJ
Spam books clog Amazon’s Kindle self-publishing — Reuters
How much does it cost to purchase the U.S. Web video rights to a hit Japanese TV show? Not very much — All Things D
Chris Matthews only reads online content insofar as it’s printed out on paper by his producers? — Atlantic Wire
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Single best line from Taleb’s paper (on p. 15):
“CVar & Var: these are totally ineffective, no need for further discussion here (or elsewhere).
LOL!
I *highly* recommend Marcia Angell’s latest report in her ongoing investigation of the medicalization of mental illness:
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives /2011/jun/23/epidemic-mental-illness-wh y/
AARP says, “No Rupert, it ain’t true.”
http://www.aarp.org/about-aarp/press-cen ter/info-06-2011/aarp-has-not-changed-it s-position-on-social-security.html
Loving Talebs ongoing attempt at intellectual terrorism. You do realise what he wrote was pure gibberish right?