As Nassim Nicholas Taleb describes it in his new book Anti-Fragile: Things that Gain from Disorder (Random House, 2012), it creates a fragile system that does not scale, and suffers from adverse market changes.

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the author of The Black Swan fame has written a new book titled Anti-Fragile: Things That Gain From Disorder in which he provides a reasoned basis for believing that the current Fed policy will bring us way more inflation and much sooner than expected.

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There are bright spots out there but overall things remain fragile.

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Things are fragile though, with recession ghosts circling close by.

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It turns out things are fragile.

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Also, although bone mass declines and muscle mass declines, rarely do things get so fragile that they snap.

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If Mr Akerson, a tough egg, shakes things up again, fragile executive morale could plunge.

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And everybody really admits that this is very fragile at this point and there's a lot of key things that still have to be worked out.

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We did, in fact, point out in advance that things were going wrong in the region, particularly with property booms and fragile banks.

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One of the things we learned from This Time is Different by Rogoff and Reinhart is that economies are more fragile and volatile and that recessions are more frequent after a credit crisis.

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