I never said he hyped his fund, he is hyping his image. So I am raising questions about that. He doesn't have to answer, but equally he is quick...
But he is doing PR and mentions the fund, so these are fair questions. Bernie Madoff depended on this type of word-of-mouth buzz to attract...
So he claims, but what does that have to do with the returns? But as I say, he lets representations and rumors of wealth bleed into the market,...
My point is that there is no evidence either way, but in my experience, fund managers don't get bored with funds that are performing well. It is...
I don't know about that, but I do know that his stint at Paloma Partners is not mentioned on his Wikipedia hagiography. As I mentioned it is...
Excuse me? You owe me an apology. These are facts. I am entitled to doubt the veracity of his claims of wealth, since I have heard directly...
Like the 1987 self-reported success, this is the same. Taleb feeds the press and they eat it up, but the facts up to then did not suggest he did....
Not even close. Like I say, when his B.S. about having created riches doesn't fly, the fall back position is that he's some thinker above the...
What's your basis for saying that other than the Fortune article where he fed them the information. In the case of the interview I read, Taleb...
Plenty of doubt, since he's the one that feeds the press the information. Subsequent to that, he was a failed trader and Paloma people say he...
Not true. I read the book. But others did warn in a specific way. Paulos, Tavakoli, Grantham. Not Taleb. As this unfolded he was first quoted...
I seriously doubt he made 50 million in '87. Hence the Paloma episode.
I'd like to see a credible audit report. As for Taleb, I'd like to see the proof of earnings. To date, he seems to perpetuate a myth of his...
He was an advisor to that fund, but are the billions self-reported? There seems to be a myth about Taleb, but most of it seems self-perpetuated....
LOL. CNBC Video. At 4:50 min Janet Tavakoli talks about Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis. At 7:25 she says the varsity players got their grades...
NOT.
Earlier he said he wished he had done the puts at lower market levels. At the meeting he said he modified two contracts in the previous week....
Respectfully disagree. I believe this review from the late Greg Newton on Seeking Alpha is on the mark:...
At the Annual Meeting, Buffett said that everyone thought that housing prices would always go up, implying that was the reason for all of the bad...
Ghostdog, I agree with you. That applies in spades to the I-banks, AIG, Citigroup. That is why I object to using public money to support the...
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