The Black Swan The Impact of the Highly Improbable By Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Billion Dollar Whale By Tom Wright 2 Books Collection Set
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The Black Swan The Impact of the Highly Improbable:
What have the invention of the wheel, Pompeii, the Wall Street Crash, Harry Potter and the internet got in common? Why are all forecasters con-artists? What can Catherine the Greats lovers tell us about probability? Why should you never run for a train or read a newspaper? This book is all about Black Swans: the random events that underlie our lives, from bestsellers to world disasters. Their impact is huge; theyre impossible to predict; yet after they happen we always try to rationalize them.
Billion Dollar Whale:
In 2009, a chubby, mild-mannered graduate of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business named Jho Low set in motion a fraud of unprecedented gall and magnitude -- one that would come to symbolise the next great threat to the global financial system. Over a decade, Low, with the aid of Goldman Sachs and others, siphoned billions of dollars from an investment fund -- right under the nose of global financial industry watchdogs. Low used the money to finance elections, purchase luxury real estate, throw champagne-drenched parties, and even to finance Hollywood films like The Wolf of Wall Street.
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The Black Swan The Impact of the Highly Improbable By Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Billion Dollar Whale By Tom Wright 2 Books Collection Set
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