I know it's early but this is going to be tough to beat:
...“I’m not interested in money; I’m not interested in finance,” Taleb
says. “I’m comfortable enough as it is. I don’t need it. Finance should
be a footnote in my bio, not a central component. Why should I waste
time in finance when my influence as an intellectual is so high?”...
HT:
Falkenblog who writes:
...I hope someday he gets stuck in an elevator with Tom Friedman, and then
after a couple hours one might realize that if there exist at least one
bloviating best-seller, perhaps there exist more than one.
Elsewhere
in the article someone notes that Universa’s clients lost about 4
percent in both 2009 and 2010. I'm skeptical that represents his
average investor loss, as opposed to some cherry-picked account, and
I'll write a check for $1000 to a charity of Taleb/Spitznagel's choice
if that's true (just send the audited consolidated returns for
Universa)....
