So you can imagine The Black Swan author’s surprise to find out his b-school chum is an alleged insider trading specialist.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of The Black Swan, got a shock when he opened the newspaper last weekend and saw a picture of an old classmate from Wharton business school at the University of Pennsylvania.
“He was an extremely likeable fellow, chubby, a warm personality. If I had to give my keys to someone in case of getting locked out of the house, he’d be the kind of guy I’d go to.”
“I thought: What is this guy doing with the FBI?” Mr Taleb said of Raj Rajaratnam, the Galleon Group hedge fund manager charged last week with alleged insider trading.
and….. he would be homeless by now..
Like you’re such a hard-body yourself, Taleb?
-raj-raj
no fat chicks.
-NNT
fuckity fuck fuck FUCK.
-Danielle Chiesi
He looks so vegan in that pic.
“Nassim Taleb hates fat people”
true story.
Warm, chubby and likeable? I have all that and more. Go ahead and give me the keys, baby !!
@7 we’re talking keys to my house, not ass.
-NT
Taleb = unintentionally funny.
Everytime.
quick clarification- what I was “shocked” about was to see that my once “chubby” school chum had blown up to professor klump proportions.
-nnt
I’m going to throw it out there because I know you’ve all been thinking it:
wharton breeds crooks, full stop. tired of being an also ran to that other school, their motto is: if you ain’t cheatin’ you ain’t tryin’
@1 – he wouldn’t be broke. remember raj-raj, unlike madoff, made money through illicit trades – he wasn’t cooking the books.
boom, done!
@11 eat a dick.
-sac wharton ’77
Wasn’t BM “warm, chubby, and likeable” too?
I’ll be putting all my money with a cold, skinny, SOB manager who everyone hates.
@13 no, he wasn’t warm or likeable. just chubbs.
Wharton has been an also ran to Columbia for the last decade. And they do turn out an inordinate number of unethical jerks.
@13 – So, Dick Fuld? Let me know how that works out for you.
@13
So we’ve got Chiesi, Madoff, and Rajaratnam. I’m starting to think that starting a FoF that profiles managers and traders on the basis of ethnicity,nationality, and gender, as compared to investment strategy and track record, might not be a bad idea. I think I’ll call it GDCM, for Grand Dragon Capital Management. Any other ideas for a name out there?
@16:
That’s the first time I heard anyone claim that DF is an asset manager….
@17 = racist
Cluzo – I meant his house would be emptied .. not his investments – i.e.; the dude is a crook…
@19
Wow, you’re quick aren’t you.
-17
@pfluger 13:
I just opened a fund. Wanna get in on the ground floor ?
Andrew Hall.
@11 eat a dick.
-sac wharton ’77
taleb is just an attention grabber. adult attention deficit disorder.
@12/23 – wharton ’77 and still working? can you say underachiever or do you process trades (which would still beg the question why you’re still working)? just sayin’…
@Nassim Taleb: Eat a dick.
Biggest blowhard in the industry. No, you did not predict this crisis. You just said, in effect, shit happens. We’ve all known that things don’t move in a normal distribution since the ’87 crash. Your hedge fund paid its way in theta to death before the crisis. Anyone who invested in your new funds this year has lost money- there’s a time to be long vol and a time to be short.
taleb is just an attention grabber. adult attention deficit disorder.
@26
OTM
Taleb is an idiot
@11 eat a dick.
-sac wharton ’77
My wife refuses to give me a rim job
indian dudes have small dicks
dennis kneale
#17,
So what is the racial/religious cubbyhole into which we at Grand Dragon would assign Meriwether, Scholes, and their merry band?
John Barry and Thomas Daniels of Beacon Hill?
The late Kirk Wright?
Daniel (not the football player) Marino?
Well, yes, come to think of it, the Grand Dragon fund doesn’t have a problem classifying Krk Wright….
@22:
Before I invest, I need to do my due diligence.
How much do you weigh, and how tall are you? How do people react when your name is mentioned? Are they repulsed?
Penis shape is the single best predictor of performance.
@35 please elaborate
Anyone who invested with Galleon got exactly what they should.
Trust a moslem with anything, and regret it later.
Perhaps one of you enlightened, tolerant, PC progressives will quote some obscure exception to TGFD’s sound generalization?
The Guy from Delaware
@TGFD I see you’re going for the ban.
Getting banned again is the new killing it.
.word.
@12,23,29,30…
I’m here to help.
Bwarny
What the f is that guy looking at?
@37- um, dude, I don’t think Raj-Raj is a Moslem, particularly seeing as the majority of Sri Lankans (>75%)are either Buddhist or Hindu and seeing as there are clearly many pictures of him hittin the vino…
@Haters of the Grand Dragon Fund
Profiling works for El Al, not so much for some other airlines, so perhaps the alternative diligence approach isn’t so wrong, after all, no?
Seriously – who poses for a photo like that?
Taleb, who cooked the random soup to a nice simmer, is also a fraud, more on the intellectual side.
I really enjoy the 23 yr old “hitters” who constantly remind you they went to Wharton…. undergrad.
Buyside@#41…
Thanks for correcting TGFD’s error, but when it comes to financial dealings, moslem or hindu, what’s the difference? Neither is trustworthy.
TGFD won’t go into a Dunkin’ Donuts that’s run by bengalis. Watered-down coffee, yesterday’s donuts & brkfst sandwiches are to be expected. Swindling is bred into those fucks. They don’t seem to understand why most westerners don’t think the way bengalis do.
The Guy from Delaware
@45 Wharton Undergrad > Wharton MBA
Surely he should have realized there would be a Black Swan in his class. This shock admission goes against his whole theory.
My next book: The Fat Swan.
Fat tale?
there is a difference in being funny about stereotypes and being out right racist… People have fought and died for the dignity to stand equal… don’t belittle it.
@47, 45..
Damn straight. There’s a reason the undergrad averages are higher in every shared MBA/undergrad course.