Publisher’s Weekly says “Wall Street Journal reporter Patterson (Dark Pools) delivers an illuminating investigation into those who profit from anticipating crises.”
From the review:
Patterson outlines the two prevailing camps of catastrophe forecasters: there are those who follow trader Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s “Black Swan” theory, which posits that world-changing events are often entirely unpredictable, and then there are those who follow French physicist Didier Sornette’s “Dragon King” theory, which holds that events can be predicted if one has the right inputs…