Another upside of the meltdown

I’ve nearly finished reading The Black Swan, Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s brilliant book about how we know less than we think we know, how we draw too many inferences from our own experiences and how we grossly misunderstand risk. (Yes, it’s a timely book. Taleb is a former Wall Street trader who evidently had little impact on his reckless peers, although the causes of the current meltdown go way beyond recklessness.) In any event, the metaphor of the Black Swan—that is, the sudden, unexpected, game

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Another upside of the meltdown