Saying Goodbye To The Kojo Nnamdi Show
On this last episode, we look back on 23 years of joyous, difficult and always informative conversation.
A volatile stock market, personal wealth, even cancer clusters. Mathematician and Wall Street trader Nassim Nicholas Taleb says we fool ourselves by ignoring the role of randomness in these events. Taleb joins Kojo to discuss luck’s effect on our lives.
Guests
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb Author, Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in the Markets and in Life (Texere, NY); also founder, Empirica Capital LLC; adjunct professor of Mathematics, New York University
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