It’s time to blow off some steam and watch something stupid. March marks a full year since we’ve all been cooped up due to the pandemic, leaving many of us tethered to our TVs to an unhealthy degree. So after such a stressful year, consumers deserve to splurge a bit, …
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I’ve been managing my own finances for a long time. Along the way, I did some things right that served me well and some things that didn’t—including three big blunders. My money-management journey started when I got into a new middle school that was 12 miles from home. The daily …
Read More »Key Words: Taleb says Musk’s comment on coronavirus panic being ‘dumb’ is what’s dumb
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, whose book “The Black Swan” foreshadowed the 2008 global financial crisis, responded to Elon Musk’s tweet about what he called a panic over the coronavirus with a brief lesson on probability and human endurance over the millennia. “[T]he coronavirus panic is dumb,” Musk, the CEO of SpaceX …
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