[dennisw]

Originally Posted by Dozer523

I am a huge fan of this author, Malcolm Gladwell. I'm currently reading his book What the Dog Saw and this is one of the chapters.

Other books include: The Tipping Point, Blink and Outliers.

http://www.gladwell.com/2002/2002_04_29_a_blowingup.htm

Great article. It puts many things in perspective for me. It also leads to certain conclusions. If the market is truly unpredictable, then the only way to invest with certainty is to one, have insider information, or two, control the uncontrollable. If you can create your own "black swan" then you're ahead of the game. Things like trying to corner the silver market or push the government in a certain direction which you know will lead to a crash, after of course betting on the crash.

Thanks for posting it. I now plan on reading some of Gladwell's books.