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October 23, 2008

Taleb and Mandelbrot Talk: Slack and Sleeplessness

There is a great/harrowing audio track available from a PBS discussion last night with Benoit Mandelbrot and Nassim Taleb. The topics include wildness, hedge fund deleveraging, turbulence, bank insolvency, slack, global economic network effects, and why both Taleb and Mandelbrot are having trouble sleeping of late.

Speaking of sleep, I wouldn't recommend anyone listen to it just before bedtime, but that's just me. Mind you, as I was saying to a hedge fund friend tonight via email, I haven't slept well in a month or more.

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