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What event did Taleb foresee and profit from?

  • The late-2000s financial crisis

  • The dot com bubble

  • The housing bubble in 2008

  • Bitcoin's rise and fall

Answer

The late-2000s financial crisis, also known as the global financial crisis, was a severe worldwide economic crisis. It began in 2007 with a crisis in the subprime mortgage market in the United States, and developed into a full-blown international banking crisis with the collapse of the investment bank Lehman Brothers on September 15, 2008.
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