Posted on 04/21/2023 8:15:52 AM PDT by JV3MRC
Leftist billionaire George Soros is willing to spend billions of dollars to radically transform society into his own bizarre leftist utopia but he was apparently a cheapskate when it came to paying Twitter’s blue checkmark fee.
Twitter owner Elon Musk tweeted April 11 that April 20 would be the “final date” for removing legacy blue checkmarks from users who refuse to pay the $8 fee. Soros clearly didn’t pony up the cash and his account of roughly 388,000 followers was stripped of its blue checkmark.
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For that alone buying Twitter was worth it. :)
The sooner this evil con artist nazi collaborating POS SOB dies, the better!
Let’s look at Soros’ 3 largest, most successful trades
Betting the British Pound would leave the ERM in 1992
Bet on Thai Devaluation and against Baht/Asian currencies/debt 1997
Betting that Japan’s Abe (later assassinated) would introduce a massive stimulus program, the Yen would decline and Japan’s export stocks would surge.
All were based on specific political decisions and programs. WHAT IF, instead of being a “brilliant investor,” Soros is an agent, or controlled crony, and that some higher entity advised him in advance of these decisions.
Earning would launder political kick-backs, and provide cover for vast sums of money going to statist/leftist political causes, both in the West and inside areas not yet under Western control (particularly Eastern Europe)
Too conspiratorial? thoughts?
“Too conspiratorial? thoughts?”
No, not conspiratorial at all. He even said as much in the Steve Croft interview years ago.
People who don’t buy things are by definition cheap. If, for example, you didn’t buy a tugboat yesterday, it proves you are cheap.
People who don’t buy things are by definition cheap. If, for example, you didn’t buy a tugboat yesterday, it proves you are cheap.
In the first case, he and Druckenmiller correctly perceived the mis-pricing of the pound in the ERM, looked at the size of the potential for leveraged bets by the market against that pricing, and the scale of the UK Treasury’s publicly declared FX reserves, and concluded that he could break the linkage. He was correct.
The Thai baht trade was the exact same trade made for the same reasons.
The Abe trade was another case where he (actually his trading team, as Soros was no longer trading by that time) simply chose to believe that a political candidate would actually DO what he said he would, and correctly predicted the financial market consequences.
Your argument is “he correctly perceived.”
My argument is “he was told in advance.”
Yeah, but you weren’t there, so you have no idea.
What higher entity had knowledge of the upcoming decisions in the UK, Thailand and Japan?
And neither do you!
You have his own public statements, media confirmation and a generally-held belief that he is simply a very wise investor.
I have his stated motives, and circumstantial evidence of his deep involvement in politics, connections to government, unregulated nature, and the fact that his subsequent foundations and donations line up exactly with long-term US government "deep state" political and strategic interests, combining to create a hypothesis
“If, for example, you didn’t buy a tugboat yesterday, it proves you are cheap.”
Oh, but I did buy 2 desserts with dinner last night, so it proves I am a spendthrift...and yes maybe a slight glutton as well. :D
Yes, that's the $100K question - and what's the line between merely doing very good "due diligence" and direct help and coordination? I couldn't tell you.
If I had access to the collective knowledge of Fed.gov financial agencies, IMF, US embassy reports, signal intel, CIA analysis, human intel, global bank-insider, friendly foreign government employee - I too could have easily predicted when the Thai Government would make the political decision to stop supporting the Baht, or if Japan's PM was going announce a radical change in economic policy.
does such knowledge exist? YES.
Are there people who have access to the totality of such knowledge? PROBABLY YES
Mighty they have motive to use such knowledge to further their power, their ideology, or simply their base financial greed? YES
Would they implement their schemes through trusted agents to give them cover? OF COURSE
Deport the Nazi.
I know many people who were there at Quantum that day, some of them I worked with very closely, and they’ve described the meetings, thoughts and information in great detail. Moreover, I was trading professionally in German capital markets for a German bank at that time, and watched the events with great interest in real time. There were people who believed Norman Lamont could hold the peg, and there were people who correctly believed he could not. The former group featured great intellects like John Major, the latter group including Helmut Schlesinger. It was by no means only Soros who made money that day. In London markets the day the peg broke became forever known, not a Black Wednesday like the history says, but rather as “Bonus Wednesday.” Soros is a publicity hound, and let it be known that he made a billion that day. Many others made as much.
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