BlackSwan

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 * Black Swan** = Unexpected event of a large magnitude

Recommended Listening
[|The Predictability of Unpredictability] - Nassim Nicholas Taleb discusses his groundbreaking ideas and their relevance to the current economic crisis and national policy making.

Blog
[|black swans]

Wikipedia
[|Black_swan_theory]

Definitions
Black swan event (in the modelling of future outcomes) a major event which is so improbable that it is not likely to be predicted.[coined by Lebanese-born statistician, Nassim Taleb, in The Black Swan (2007); from the idea that, prior to European contact with Australia, the only swans known in the rest of the world were white, and no-one envisaged the possibility of a black one] source: [|macquarie dictionary]

Recommended Reading
Nik Gowing, [|'Skyful of Lies' and Black Swans (2009)]

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Headlines [|The Black Swans of 2018]