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> His track record since “the big short” has been horrific.

You would expect that with low probability, highly leveraged bets, which shorts largely are. You are wrong most of the time and then make a giant pile of money when you are right. People definitely should understand that strategy though and not just follow him blindly into investments without the expectation that you will probably lose your money almost every time.



Yeah I believe this is basically Taleb's investment strategy (or at least, what he seemed to claim in his books)




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