In Part 2 we examined social unrest and terrorism, of which we found only one each in the original list . We demonstrated that none of those two cases was actually a Black Swan, because they simply did not fit the definition! Now, in the same list, we see a total of 5 Economic/financial alleged Black [...]
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Black Swan Mania Part3
Posted by coboni on June 23, 2011
http://foboni.wordpress.com/2011/06/23/black-swan-mania-part3/
Black Swan Mania Part2
From the Black Swan list we can count 1 Political/social Black Swan (Unrest in the Middle East). Now if we look at the last 200 years of Human history we can easily count at least 16 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_revolutions_and_rebellions) political/social major large scale events. Even without considering two World Wars, but only “a few additional wars since then“, we [...]
Posted by coboni on June 21, 2011
http://foboni.wordpress.com/2011/06/21/black-swan-mania-part2/
Black Swan Mania: Using Buzzwords Can Be a Dangerous Habit
It has been a viral epidemic culminating with the economic recession. We are referring to the use of the term “Black Swan”. Of course we are not talking about the Tchaikovsky ballet, or the recent related movie, but to the Black Swan Theory which refers “to unexpected events of large magnitude and consequence and their [...]
Posted by coboni on June 14, 2011
http://foboni.wordpress.com/2011/06/14/black-swan-mania-using-buzzwords-can-be-a-dangerous-habit/
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We have been reading with a lot of interest Deloitte’s report entitled: Tracking the trends 2011, The top 10 issues mining companies will face in the coming year. The issues highlighted in Deloitte’s report are summarized below: 1 Financing 2 Volatility 3 Stakeholders engagement 4 Taxes, regulations and governments 5 How to invest more strategically [...]
Posted by foboni on June 9, 2011
http://foboni.wordpress.com/2011/06/09/our-clients-beat-the-trends-we-are-proud-to-contribute-to-their-leadership/
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