“I am, at the Fed level, libertarian; at the state level, Republican; at the local level, Democrat; and at the family and friends level, a socialist. Nassim Taleb from Skin in the Game To appl...Read More
“The knowledge we get by tinkering, via trial and error, experience, and the workings of time, in other words, contact with the earth, is vastly superior to that obtained through reasoning”...Read More
“We are vastly better off complaining about lawyers than complaining about not having them.” Nassim Taleb Author of Skin in the Game The Photo is Gary David (of blessed memory) my excellen...Read More
“Robert Rubin, a former Secretary of the United States Treasury, one of those who sign their names on the banknote you just used to pay for coffee, collected more than $ 120 million in compensat...Read More
“If a builder builds a house and the house collapses and causes the death of the owner of the house— the builder shall be put to death.” Hammurabi’s Code From Skin in the Game by Nassim Ta...Read More
How do candidates for political office with obvious character flaws seem more real than bureaucrats with impeccable credentials? Nassim Taleb in Skin in the Game And, I might add, make such terrible a...Read More
“It is immoral to be in opposition to the market system and not live (somewhere in Vermont or Northwestern Afghanistan) in a hut or cave isolated from it.” Nassim Taleb in Skin in the Game...Read More