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“Janet Yellen at the FED is equivalent to having a biology schoolteacher who has never seen blood perform brain surgery.”

Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a renowned author, scholar, and thinker whose unique perspective and profound insights have had a wide-reaching impact in fields such as finance, statistics, and philosophy. He is best known for his books 'The Black Swan' and 'Fooled by Randomness', which have explored the nature of uncertainty, risk, and probability theory. more

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