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The best test of whether someone is extremely stupid (or extremely wise) is whether financial and political news makes sense to him.

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb (born 1 January 1960 in Amioun, Lebanon) is an essayist, epistemologist, researcher, and former practitioner of mathematical finance.

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