Taleb: Fed Won’t Exist in 25 Years, Bernanke a ’Failure’
Thursday, 02 June 2011 03:37 PM EDT
The Federal Reserve won’t exist in 25 years and the reappointment of Ben Bernanke as head of the central bank was a “management failure,” said Nassim Taleb, author of ‘The Black Swan.’
Allowing Bernanke to stay at the helm of the Fed is equivalent to “letting an unqualified pilot fly a plane,” Taleb, a principal at Universa Investments LP, told a conference in Moscow, Russia today.
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The Federal Reserve won t exist in 25 years and the reappointment of Ben Bernanke as head of the central bank was a management failure, said Nassim Taleb, author of The Black Swan. Allowing Bernanke to stay at the helm of the Fed is equivalent to letting an unqualified...
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