'Skin In The Game' - With Special Guest Nassim Nicholas Taleb

New York Times bestselling author of "Skin in the Game" Nassim Nicholas Taleb joins today's Liberty Report to discuss the "interventionistas" who produce chaos everywhere in the name of "doing good." What does it mean to have "skin in the game"? Tune in!

Nassim Taleb spent 20 years as a derivatives trader and, after closing 650,000 option transactions and examining 200,000 risk reports, he changed careers in 2006 to become a scholar and philosophical essayist. Taleb is currently Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at New York University's Polytechnic Institute, but he self-funds his research and operates in the manner of independent scholars. He is the author of four novels, most notably The Black Swan and Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder. Taleb's works focuses on decision making under opacity, as well as mathematical and philosophical problems with probability, in other words on "what to do in a world we don't understand" as well as on the properties of systems that can handle disorder. His latest book is titled Skin in the Game.

Dr. Ron Paul is a physician and former twelve-term congressman from Texas who ran for president in 2008. He is the author of eight books, including the New York Times bestsellers The Revolution: A Manifesto and End The Fed. An unwavering defender of the US Constitution, Paul has been an advocate of sound money, personal liberty, free markets, and international peace throughout his political career and beyond. He is chairman of the FREE Foundation, founder of the Campaign for Liberty, and distinguished counselor to the Ludwig von Mises Institute. Dr. Paul recently started the Ron Paul Channel, an online broadcast alternative to the mainstream media. Ron's most recent novel is Swords into Plowshares.