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The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.

~Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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It might be useful to be able to predict war. But tension does not necessarily lead to war, but often to peace and to denouement.

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I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.

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You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.

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I've been telling anyone willing to listen that banks have a tendency to sit on time bombs while convincing themselves that they are conservative and nonvolatile.

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Banking is a very treacherous business because you don't realize it is risky until it is too late. It is like calm waters that deliver huge storms.

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Nobody reads the disclosures that roll down your computer screen. You click 'I agree' but you don't know what you're agreeing to.

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The mortgage crisis is a clear instance of consumers who needed protection. There was predatory lending to people who didn't know what they were doing.

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Governments that try to shoot for a surplus hardly ever reach it.

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What we need to do is break the financial community's grip on society.

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Biography

Nationality: Lebanese

Type: Scientist

Born: Unknown

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