Recent content by Greg Richards

Taleb: There's A Smear Campaign Against Me! http://www.businessinsider.com/taleb-theres-a-smear-campaign-against-me-2009-6 Joe Weisenthal - Business Insider - Jun. 29, 2009 Nassim Taleb has posted a copy (http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/GQ.pdf)of that infamous GQ UK article in which...

There's many a slip twixt the cup and the lip.

Stranded swan sounds right for these returns: 2000: 58.88% 2001: -8.39% (according to Bloomberg, this is the year money “flocked” to the fund so most of the investors may have ended up net negative if Bloomberg is accurate); 2002: -13.38%

WHY NASSIM TALEB COULDN’T CLEAN UP AFTER 9/11 http://www.businessinsider.com/why-didnt-nassim-taleb-make-money-after-911-2009-6 by Joe Weisenthal BUSINESS INSIDER Jun. 3, 2009, 8:39 AM Janet Tavakoli, fresh off of debunking an erroneous Nassim Taleb stat in a GQ article, is back with...

WAIT! BEFORE YOU INVEST IN NASSIM TALEB’S NEW FUND Joe Wiesenthal – BUSINESS INSIDER – June 3, 2009 http://www.businessinsider.com/wait-before-you-invest-in-nassim-talebs-new-fund-2009-6 Universa Investments, the Nassim Taleb-affiliated fund group, is opening a new fund where they'll...

WHY NASSIM TALEB COULDN’T CLEAN UP AFTER 9/11 http://www.businessinsider.com/why-didnt-nassim-taleb-make-money-after-911-2009-6 by Joe Weisenthal BUSINESS INSIDER Jun. 3, 2009, 8:39 AM Janet Tavakoli, fresh off of debunking an erroneous Nassim Taleb stat in a GQ article, is back with...

http://www.finance.senate.gov/sitepages/leg/LEG%202007/36960.pdf The title is "The Firing of an SEC Attorney and the Investigation of Pequot Capital Management." 711 pages of it. The payoff is on Pp. 44 and 45.

You are flailing, and this is a waste of time, since you don't seem to want to address the issues of this thread.

You obviously don't want to respond to the substance of this thread, so you are trying to create a distraction from the real topic.

He who represents himself has a fool for a client. You claim to represent Taleb. Instead, you put forth distractions and nonsense to avoid the original issue or any of the issues raised by others who posted in this thread. I believe the title of this thread and the first article are...

I guess you anonymously represent the interests of others. But no one should back down from being skeptical and asking due diligence questions in the face of hype. The title and the beginning post of this thread were pure hype. So, if I, say "prove it," regarding these and previous...

I can only speak for myself. I follow Tavakoli's work and comments pretty closely and I am a fan, but I am also a fan and follow Faber, Rogers, Grant, Grantham, Ritholtz, Mauldin and others pretty closely. Still learning. For example, on another forum I didn't know that Buffett sells puts on...