Nassim Taleb, the best-selling author of The Black Swan, endorsed the presidential aspirations of Ron Paul. "From the risk vantage point, Paul is the only candidate that represents my values," he told CNBC earlier today.
"There are four key issues that no one else is addressing," said NYU Politechnic Institute and Oxford University professor, the first three of which he identified as the deficit, the Fed, and US militarism. "Then there is the notion that America is about resilience. You do not achieve that through bailouts," he told CNBC.
"I want a system that gets better after every shock. A system that relies on bailouts is not such a system," he said, noting that Ron Paul is the only candidate willing to take the risk to talk about the hot button issues.
"He is doing the equivalent of chemotherapy on the fundamental issues," said Taleb. "It may hurt, but that is the only choice you have. You cannot advocate for novocaine when in fact you need a root canal."
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Let's see....Santorum and Gringrich have spent their lives in Congress (something our founding fathers NEVER thought should be a CAREER). NOW, they are running to FIX things. Why didn't they FIX things when they were in the best position to do that? MORE coniving, sleazy, bribe taking and special interest ass kissing politicians telling us THEY are the next guy who will "change the way Washington works". Riiiiight. And MILLIONS are falling for that line AGAIN. Then there is Romney --- a liberal trying to pass himself off as a conservative and another rich guy who tries his best to convince everyone he ISN'T rich (his wife actually said "we aren't wealthy")! ALL of them (except Paul) want to expand our militarism (but won't send THEIR kids anywhere CLOSE to a war zone, but WILL send YOUR kids, no problem), keep the Federal Reserve stealing from America, and want to STRENGTHEN the Patriot Act and the ever-increasing surveillance and monitoring of ALL Americans, to include the SECRET "detention", imprisonment, and even killing CITIZENS (!!) and eviseration of the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Ron Paul can't win, but history may show he was the last chance at political sanity and a return to our core values of freedom and individual liberty.
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