Taleb has not claimed that the current crisis is a Black Swan; in fact, quite the opposite. While this crisis has thrust his ideas into the spotlight, he has ma

Taleb has not claimed that the current crisis is a Black Swan; in fact, quite the opposite. While this crisis has thrust his ideas into the spotlight, he has maintained in interviews that our financial crisis was entirely predictable (and he, among a handful of other prominent economists, did in fact predict it).