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		<title>A historical testimony to the US congress! Or is it?!</title>
		<link>http://www.alphaverse.com/the-black-swan-casting-pearls-to-swines-or-is-it/2009/09</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:15:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can you recall a moment when you could honestly say &#8216;I told you so&#8217;, but when no one listens? Well this just might be one of those for me. This Thursday September the 10th marks perhaps a historic development for both Washington and the financial markets. The US Congress&#8217; Committee on Science and Technology held a [...]
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		<title>Taleb Bets on Hyperinflation, or even Deflation</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:25:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hyperborean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Universa Investments LP, the hedge-fund advised by &#8220;Black Swan&#8221; author Nassim Taleb,  has a new strategy where they&#8217;re betting that the massive stimulus efforts of global governments will lead to hyperinflation. The governments pumping money into the economy cannot prevent hyperinflation, and in the loger run will lead to deflation as well . The strategy has also been reported [...]
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		<title>Taleb @ Zeitgeist Europe &#8217;09</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 18:03:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hyperborean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Staying the Course: Part II &#8211; Zeitgeist Europe &#8217;09 The panel explores those improbable events that the marketplace under-assesses but which end having a powerful and unanticipated influence for investors.  Taleb author of brilliant book The Black Swan says “the more you study economics the less competent you’re going to be…. the past is not [...]
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		<title>Time to Cash Out: Why Paper Money Hurts the Economy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 16:26:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two years ago, Hasbro came out with an electronic version of Monopoly. Want to buy a house? Just put your debit card into the mag-stripe reader. Bing! No more pastel-colored cash tucked under the board. Turns out it wasn&#8217;t Lehman Brothers but Parker Brothers that could smell the future. At least, that&#8217;s what participants at [...]
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 10:38:21 +0000</pubDate>
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