DALLAS Wondering about the best way to handle your business or personal finances? Looking for insights into the health of the global financial system? Ask your grandmother, who gained wisdom through ...

Mamas, don’t let your babies grow up to be investment professionals. That’s the argument Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the investment expert and math whiz who wrote the influential book The Black Swan, is ...

Nassim Nicholas Taleb has devoted his life to immersing himself in problems of luck, randomness, human error, probability, and the philosophy of knowledge. He managed to transform his interests into ...

In this look at financial luck, hedge fund manager Taleb (Dynamic Hedging) addresses the apparently irrational movement of money markets around the world. Using his own investing experience and ...

One look at his current or past academic titles, such as Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering and Dean’s Professor in the Sciences of Uncertainty, tells you that best-selling author Nassim ...

Big companies are hoarding big data and doing nothing with it--except invading our privacy. It's time to think small, writes Paddle Consulting's Brian Millar. Why Are Old Technologies So Hard To Kill?