{"id":12164,"date":"2009-09-28T07:14:05","date_gmt":"2009-09-28T11:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=12164"},"modified":"2009-09-28T07:14:05","modified_gmt":"2009-09-28T11:14:05","slug":"%e2%80%98black-swan%e2%80%99-author-taleb-asks-why-bernanke-kept-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2009\/%e2%80%98black-swan%e2%80%99-author-taleb-asks-why-bernanke-kept-post.html","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Black Swan\u2019 Author Taleb Asks Why Bernanke Kept Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Nassim Taleb, author of \u201cThe Black Swan,\u201d questioned why Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke, and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner kept their posts after failing to foresee the collapse in global credit markets.<\/p>\n<p>Bernanke was appointed to a second term last month by President Barack Obama, while Geithner took his job after being the president of the New York Fed from November 2003 through January of this year. Current National Economic Council Director Lawrence Summers was treasury secretary between 1999 and 2001.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBernanke, Geithner and Summers didn\u2019t see the crisis coming so why are they still there,\u201d Taleb told a group of business people in Hong Kong. Bernanke is like \u201ca pilot who didn\u2019t see a hurricane,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Read Complete Article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601083&amp;sid=ajnBClVe3IrM\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Nassim Taleb, author of \u201cThe Black Swan,\u201d questioned why Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke, and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner kept their posts after failing to foresee the collapse in global credit markets. Bernanke was appointed to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[4482,15880,15881,4520,509,2200],"class_list":["post-12164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-barack-obama","tag-black-swan","tag-council-director","tag-credit-markets","tag-federal-reserve","tag-global-credit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12164"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12166,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12164\/revisions\/12166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}