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by RobertoG 3915 days ago
I don't want to be negative but the article in the spectator dismiss the Gini index (that I'm sure has its problems) using a tweet as its source.

Just to weight in with an alternative view: http://mainlymacro.blogspot.fr/2014/11/redistribution-under-...
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gadders 3915 days ago
To be fair, it was a tweet by Nassim Taleb.
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SideburnsOfDoom 3915 days ago
> To be fair, it was a tweet by Nassim Taleb.

Do you think that's a positive recommendation? Because it's not clear and I don't.

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gadders 3914 days ago
I think "a tweet from Nassim Taleb" carries more weight than a tweet from some random person off the internet. He does at least understand finance and economics.
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SideburnsOfDoom 3913 days ago
> I think "a tweet from Nassim Taleb" carries more weight than a tweet from some random person off the internet.

I used to follow him on twitter for a while, and I'm not convinced of that.

His first book was a well-thought out contrarian polemic. His tweets struck me as off-the-cuff random contrarian outbursts.

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