I told you so: bankers are brainless
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Nassim Taleb, maverick intellectual, former trader and inventor of black swan theory, tells ... why the banks got it wrong. It is Black Friday in the financial world. As each hour passes, billions are being wiped off the value of shares. But Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the financial thinker of the moment, is enjoying a light-hearted lunch in a North London restaurant called Flaneur. It is one of his in-jokes - he is the epitome of Baudelaire's flâneur, a man who strolls the city, absorbing the spirit of the place: part of the crowd while also set apart from it.