Список проголосовавших за комментарий "Uncle Ben, он точно не дурак, раз его работы стали настолько популярными и признанными. См. <a href="/r.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FNassim_Nicholas_Taleb&s=2092058728">вики</a>. <br/> <blockquote>Taleb reportedly became <a title="Financial independence" href="/r.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FFinancial_independence&s=2607078329">financially independent</a> after the crash of 1987<sup><a href="/r.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FNassim_Nicholas_Taleb%23cite_note-BakerSaid08-13&s=1177384223">[13]</a></sup> and was successful during the <a title="NASDAQ" href="/r.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FNASDAQ&s=1004723424">Nasdaq</a> dive in 2000<sup><a href="/r.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FNassim_Nicholas_Taleb%23cite_note-29&s=370513369">[29]</a></sup> as well as the <a class="mw-redirect" title="Financial crisis of 2007–2010" href="/r.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FFinancial_crisis_of_2007%25E2%2580%25932010&s=848656569">financial crisis that began in 2007</a>,<sup><a href="/r.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FNassim_Nicholas_Taleb%23cite_note-30&s=1445623501">[30]</a></sup> a development which he attributed to the mismatch between statistical distributions used in finance and reality. Following this crisis, Taleb became an activist for what he called a «black swan robust society».<sup><a href="/r.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FNassim_Nicholas_Taleb%23cite_note-31&s=3448715938">[31]</a></sup><sup><a href="/r.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FNassim_Nicholas_Taleb%23cite_note-Slate-32&s=577058418">[32]</a></sup> Since 2007 Taleb has been a Principal/Senior Scientific Adviser at <a class="mw-redirect" title="Universa Investments" href="/r.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FUniversa_Investments&s=3355920592">Universa Investments</a> in Santa Monica, California, a fund which is based on the «black swan» idea, owned and managed by former Empirica partner <a title="Mark Spitznagel" href="/r.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FMark_Spitznagel&s=287692794">Mark Spitznagel</a>. Some of its separate funds made returns of 65% to 115% in October 2008.</blockquote><br/> <br/> "