Didier Sornette: How we can predict the next financial crisis

Filed under Economics
2013-06-18

Credit: TED.

TED presents Didier Sornette who, together with his Financial Crisis Observatory have plotted a set of early warning signs for unstable, growing systems, tracking the moment when any bubble is about to pop. (And he’s seeing it happen again, right now.)

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