April 2020. In a move that credibly signals a will to push for reform, the European Central Bank starts to reinvent itself. Two brilliant, unorthodox scientists are charged with leading it through the reform process: epistemologist/statistician Nassim Taleb (nicknamed The Black Swan, after his best seller book) and economist Nouriel Roubini (known in some circles as Dr. Doom, for correctly predicting the 2008 crisis). Their mandate is consistent with their thinking: financial institutions should be redesigned for robustness.
Mr. Taleb's contribution lies mainly in getting rid of "bogus" measures of risk used in the past, that are blind to the coming of large unfavourable events (black swans). Mr. Roubini is more concerned in engineering the policy tools that will help the new ECB build its vision. Both scientists agree that
systemic risk should be reduced by lowering the level of debt in the economy (which went up 250% in the period 1985-1998). This translates into deleveraging: the same assets backing much less debt as before
risk should be felt at the level of the lender. Banks and financial institutions who feel they are "too big to fail" and that they can pass on to the taxpayer the consequences of their mismanagement will be inclined to take excessive risks as they purchase bonuses in times of boom. This translates into competition policy, with draconian antitrust measures to brakdown very large groups into smaller groups which can fail without taking down the wh*** system with them.
An announcement from Frankfurt states that Mr. Taleb is going to take charge of the recruitment of ECB staff personally. "Banks have historically tended to hire dull people and try to make them even more dull. That age is over."
The news have rocked the financial world, with City of London bankers specially enraged. Despite this, early market response was appreciative: the euro jumped up 3% after the announcement was made. An ECB spokesman has declined to comment on rumours of connections between the newly appointed chairman and executive director and EVOKE, the mysterious network of social innovators.
The following video, dating back more than 10 years, show Mr. Roubini and Mr. Taleb already in perfect sync with each other.
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