{"id":277510,"date":"2010-02-04T14:51:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T19:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/taleb-every-single-human-being-should-short-treasuries-2010-2"},"modified":"2010-02-04T14:51:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T19:51:00","slug":"taleb-every-single-human-being-should-short-treasuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/277510","title":{"rendered":"Taleb: &#8220;Every Single Human Being&#8221; Should Short Treasuries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/c837544b96ad234afc2c3c00\/nassim-taleb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"nassim taleb\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nassim Nicholas Taleb, speaking at a conference in Moscow earlier today, said that shorting Treasuries is a &#8220;no brainer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Due to the policies of the Obama administration and Fed Chair Ben Bernanke, &ldquo;every single human being&rdquo; should bet U.S. Treasury bonds will decline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indent\">&#8220;Every single human being should have that trade,&#8221; Taleb said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indent\">You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/avp\/avp.htm?N=av&amp;T=Taleb%20Says%20%60Every%20Human%27%20Should%20Short%20U.S.%20Treasuries&amp;clipSRC=mms:\/\/media2.bloomberg.com\/cache\/vgzA3vdOIBm8.asf\">watch the video from Bloomberg here<\/a>. Over at Commodity Trade Alert, Patrick Kerr <a href=\"http:\/\/commoditytradealert.com\/blog\/?p=5234\">sums up<\/a> the rest of his advice:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Short the S&amp;P vs Long Gold, in a 5 to 1 ratio. By gold&nbsp;Taleb means&nbsp;a basket of precious metals including gold.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Hyperinflation bet that could very well not work but if it does &ldquo;you will never fly in a public jet again.&rdquo; He prefers to play this bet with way out of the money call options on both gold and silver.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/taleb-every-single-human-being-should-short-treasuries-2010-2#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/peVu48Kr3dQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nassim Nicholas Taleb, speaking at a conference in Moscow earlier today, said that shorting Treasuries is a &#8220;no brainer.&#8221; Due to the policies of the Obama administration and Fed Chair Ben Bernanke, &ldquo;every single human being&rdquo; should bet U.S. Treasury bonds will decline. &#8220;Every single human being should have that trade,&#8221; Taleb said. You can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}