Posted: Aug 12, 2011 10:31 am
VictorTheSixth wrote:Not a problem. Just to warn you, Taleb and Black-Scholes have two *RADICALLY* different ideas of trading. Black-Scholes lost several billion dollars and had to be bailed out, while Taleb every now and then attends NYU classes so he sit there and tell the Black-Scholes professors that they're wrong about everything in life and shout quit their jobs or take up more rewarding careers like driving limos/taxis.
Also, the two of them are a bit of mortal enemies. There is one person left of the Black-Scholes group named Merton. He's so far the world's leading "expert". Taleb has been quoted as saying "In a more civilized world, natural selection would have taken care of men like Merton long ago". Enough said there
Haha, sounds like an interesting feud.
