Black Swan

Posted: 03/18/20 | March 18th, 2020Since mid-February, the coronavirus has spread uncontrollably around the world. Many countries are on complete lockdown. People are quarantined in their homes. We have an unprecedented shutdown of human movement around the world.This is a “black swan” event, an unpredictable turn of events that will…

A new analyst report takes a pessimistic view of the potential supply-chain impact of the coronavirus, suggesting that could mean no 5G iPhones this fall … In what Wedbush calls a ‘negative stress test scenario,’ the firm says that the reality may prove to be better, but it could also…

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Finding fresh horror movies can pose a challenge. Of course, new nightmares come to theaters regularly and plenty of streaming services have sections dedicated to the genre. But horror is as complex and varied as its morbid fanbase. It has a wide range of styles, mixed levels of intensity, and…

People behaving badly — Revisiting a seminal 2007 paper modeling WoW's Corrupted Blood incident. Jennifer Ouellette - Mar 16, 2020 11:00 am UTC Enlarge / Hakkar the Soulflayer was the primary source of infection for the "Corrupted Blood" outbreak in World of Warcraft.Blizzard EntertainmentWhen it comes to a global pandemic,…

MIT's campus in Kendall Square in Cambridge, MA. MIT is among hundreds of colleges and universities ... that have canceled live classes. Boston Globe via Getty Images It is hard to imagine many higher risk sites for the spread of the coronavirus than college campuses. Students live in close proximity, take…

Must be nice to be cash-heavy right now. The wealthy investors who constitute Tiger 21, a group with more than 750 members worth in excess of $75 billion, raised their cash positions last year to 12% of their diversified portfolio, a level not seen since 2013. As for the rest…

Getty Europeans once believed swans were only white. Then they discovered black swans in Australia. As investors, we continually face events that test our belief systems. Nicholas Nassim Taleb wrote a book on this subject titled, The Black Swan. ‘Black swans’ have three main characteristics: 1.    They are unpredictable 2.   Have a…

Black swan theory or a black swan event is a term used to describe a very rare or otherwise ... unexpected event that has a major effect. The term is based on an ancient saying which presumed black swans did not exist. Getty Black Swan events, as the thinking goes,…

The epicenter of Washington state's coronavirus outbreak has a disturbing status update.Life Care Center of Kirkland, Washington, outside of Seattle, has seen 15 of its residents die after contracting COVID-19, and dozens of its workers haven fallen ill. The center's remaining 55 residents are going to be tested for the…