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Wednesday, April 25, 2007 

People get crushed like biscuit crumbs

I'm more than a little intrigued by this review of Nassim Nicholas Taleb's The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable. Both Taleb and Ferguson (in the course of the review) make some good points.

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