Nick Gogerty submits:


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Nassim Taleb is a mixed blessing, part cheerleader for ignoring the false rationalism of statistics in the realm of human folly we call economics, and part self-indulging jester for being "misunderstood" and protesting too much. I think he suffers a case Roubini syndrome.

Roubini syndrome involves being right once about a big thing and therefore attributing every utterance and opinion subject to that opinion and framework. Having only a single mental hammer seems to have forced both men to see all problems before them as nails.

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