From Stephanie Baker - Bloomberg
"Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of "The Black Swan", said investors who lost money in the financial crisis should sue the Swedish Central Bank for awarding the Nobel Prize to economists whose theories he said brought down the global economy."
"I want to make the Nobel accountable," Taleb said today in an interview in London. "Citizens should sue if they lost their job or business owing to the breakdown of the financial system."
Taleb said that the Nobel Prize for Economics has conferred legitimacy on risk models that caused investors' losses and taxpayer-funded bailouts. "
Lancer's note: Though we live in an over litigious society, this would be just to put the very economist's ideas that are clearly flawed in hind sight on trial and delegitimize the very economists who still maintain power over the world's central banks.
I really feel the seriousness and emotion of this desire for some sort of justice, but I also know that any business is by necessity an extension of risk. But as our old friend Andre' used to say, "You can't win if you don't play!" Or I could say it this way, the old phrase "voodoo economics" is really redundant. Economics, no matter how many graphs, charts and theories provided, is really the study of how people risk their money to get more.
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