Ce n’est pas seulement le fruit de votre imagination délirante : le nombre de catastrophes ne cesse d’augmenter

Tremblements de terre , ouragans et  inondations,  il semble bien que les catastrophes naturelles sont à la hausse.
Maintenant, voici un tableau qui confirmerait la théorie de Black Swan, et qui vient de l’économiste Ilan Noy  de l’Université de Hawaii
Black Swan events over the past decade (source The Big Picture)
• Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon;
• 78% decline in the Nasdaq;
• 2003 European heat wave (40,000 deaths);
• 2004 Tsunami in Sumatra, Indonesia (230,000 deaths);
• 2005 Kashmir, Pakistan, earthquake (80,000 deaths)
• 2008 Myanmar cyclone (140,000 deaths);
• 2008 Sichuan, China, earthquake ( 68,000 deaths);
• Derivatives roil the world’s banking system and financial markets;
• Failure of Lehman Brothers and the sale/liquidation of Bear Stearns;
• 30% drop in U.S. home prices;
•  2010 Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, earthquake (315,000 deaths);
• 2010 Russian heat wave (56,000 deaths);
• 2010 BP’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill;
• 2010 market flash crash (a 1,000-point drop in the DJIA);
• Surge of unrest in the Middle East; and
• Thursday’s earthquake and tsunami in Japan.