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PBS NEWS HOUR Interview with Nassim Nicholas Taleb, famous economist and author of “The Black Swan” and Dr. Mandelbrot, professor of Mathematics (and originator of ‘fractal geometry’) .
Both say that the present economy more serious than the Great Depression, and the economy during the American Revolution.
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