CHAPTER 13

Thirty-Five Frequently Asked

Questions Answered

I often receive questions from my Strategic Intelligence sub-

scribers. We try to get to as many of them as possible during

our monthly intelligence briefings and in our monthly issues.

I’ve noticed that many are the same. Here are thirty-five of the

most frequently asked questions answered. I hope you find

them useful as you invest...

1) What is one book that I can read on complexity

theory?

There’s a book called Simply Complexity by Neil Johnson.

I recommend that as an introduction.

2) Do you think the Ebola virus will be the snowflake

that causes the financial avalanche?

I think it’s a very serious matter that will have very serious

economic impacts. But I don’t think it’s the snowflake that will

cause the financial avalanche. The reason I say that is because

the snowflake will, almost by definition, be the thing you don’t

see coming. It will be something that none of us have thought

about. We can see Ebola coming and know that it’s going to

have some economic impact. Maybe it adds to the slowdown

in global growth but it’s probably not the snowflake that starts

the avalanche — only because we know so much about it.