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Black swan funds soar as European crisis marches on

The financial crisis of 2008 ushered in the era of the Black Swan hedge fund, which basically allows institutions to bet that highly improbable events will occur that will tank the stock and/or bond

Goldman, too big to fail?

In the post-financial crisis era, perhaps the biggest question from a regulatory point of view is whether the reform efforts, symbolized by the Dodd-Frank Act, have solved the problem of

Way too many Black Swans

Does this mean the end of the world is at hand? Black Swans are all of a sudden blasé, way too common. Nassim Taleb's 2007 book The Black Swan was all about events that are so many standard