[live+let_live]

Just read through the first 17 posts. Predictably Soros is bad. So What?

This is a story about money, not morality.

In the financial game the score is kept with money. Soros made a lot so by definition he was right.

Past performance is no guarantee of future returns, but it does tell you a lot about a persons ability to play the game.

[popdonnelly]

Yeah, if I had no moral scruples, or any loyalty to anyone but myself, I could probably make a lot of money.

[yankeedame]

In the financial game the score is kept with money....
Correction: In the game of life the score is kept with money, and/or with those things obtained with money, e.g. Lenin had a real taste for Rolls-Royace automobiles.

..Soros made a lot so by definition he was right.
Life is a gamble and money -- in whatever form-- is the reward for having taken chances, not for being right.

[ovrtaxt]

Exactly. He’s king of the dirtbags, but he’s also a very smart trader.

Now, if there’s manipulation and other assorted illegalities going on, hang him high.

[Doneit]

"This is a story about money, not morality."

Amen, Brother. The plain and simple fact is, I think this A$$hole is right, no matter his political or philosophical underpinnings. I do not think it wise to kill the Messenger for things unrelated to the message.

[AndyJackson]

but it does tell you a lot about a persons ability to play the game.

Soros has made his fortune by putting his money where his mouth is. Soros did not "talk down" or "take down" the British pound, or any other currency. His currency bets have been when countries, such as Britain, have manipualted their own currency, and the resulting distortion has reached a crisis. That is when/where he has made his bets. Soros by himself has never had the financial resources to do more than spit in the wind of daily currency trade volumes.