4. COVID-19: The Pandemic That Changed Everything (2020): The COVID-19 pandemic was the ultimate black swan event—a crisis of unimaginable scale that forced the world to rethink everything ...

“Calling 2020 a black swan takes away from the fact that COVID-19 and the misinformation surrounding it were utterly predictable.” We often need metaphors to help us grasp such an unusual world event.

"A coronavirus pandemic would be even more ... The term was popularized by economist Nassim Taleb. Black swan events are typically random and unexpected. The outbreak of the virus has already ...

The unemployment rate has been the lowest in 50 years. The recent black swan event—the coronavirus—has temporarily ended this monumental streak. Due to the unknown nature of the outbreak and ...

The Covid-19 pandemic and the Russo-Ukraine war are other recent examples of black swan events that put the global economy in a tailspin. Anyways, overconfidence becomes a base for critical ...

The recent collapse of Silicon Valley Bank has many pundits calling it a "black swan" event ... the Great Recession and the 2020 March COVID-19 crash. In particular, longer-term Treasurys soared ...

Spitznagel's Universa Investments fund bets on "black swan" events moving markets. He made billions during the 2008 stock-market crash, the 2015 flash crash, and the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic ...