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TEN PRINCIPLES FOR A BLACK-SWAN-ROBUST WORLD

By Cygnus Atratus

In his “Ten Principles for a Black Swan-robust world”, NassimNicholas Taleb is on the ramparts assuming an activist role in urging us “to move voluntarily into Capitalism 2.0 by helping what needs to be broken break on its own, converting debt into equity, marginalising the economics and business school establishments, shutting down the ‘Nobel’... »

Future Times

By Nano Manannan

Have a look into the furture with a 2020 edition of the Financial Times. Worth a read indeed. To enter the time warp portal, go via this link > »

GBFMYC

By Nano Manannan

Here’s a nice little video piece from the folks over at Visionon.tv from the Undercurrents stable of right-on activism. So as the bankers’ fuckups cause more and more gloom across the planet and the rest of us find out how we are expected to pick up the tab, the situation just gets more baffling... »

The Obama Deception – mithras4 edit

By mithras4

This is the latest documentary from Alex Jones of infowars.com. The original duration of 1hr 51 has been edited down to 1hr 25 approx, with some non-essential footage omitted. For those of you familiar with Alex, it will not surprise you to know that the scenes in question are largely ones where he... »

A conversation between Daniel Kahneman and Nassim Taleb

By Cygnus Atratus

Daniel Kahneman and Nassim Nicholas Taleb continue a conversation that has been ongoing since 2005(!) about all things economic and psychological. Of course the events of the last few months dominate the discourse, but what’s interesting here is the psychological angle that Kahneman brings to the table. Kahneman has come to be regarded as one... »

Money as Debt

By Cygnus Atratus

As requested by Nano Manannan. Money as Debt is an animated look at the way money is created in modern societies by its financial institutions. It was made by Canadian artist Paul Grignon as an expose of how frighteningly easy it is for banks to “create” money, not to mention how ignorant we all are... »

Interview with Benoit Mandelbrot and Nassim Nicholas Taleb

By Cygnus Atratus

Before I post Nano’s request for the “Money as Debt” video I thought you might like a little commentary from two men who were among the few to predict this current financial clusterfuck. Benoit Mandlebrot and Nassim Nicholas Taleb gave this interview in October 2008, just as things were heading south in an alarming fashion. The... »