Posted on 03/23/2009 9:51:29 AM PDT by AJMCQ
George Soros is having a very good crisis. Other investors are wilting, political power structures are being upended and market economists are scrambling to fashion new theories, but the world's most famous speculator is having a belated heyday.
George Soros is now recognised as one of the most effective philanthropists, finding a new sense of purpose by spending billions to promote civil society in new democracies. "It is, in a way, the culminating point of my lifes work," the 78-year-old says in his heavy Hungarian accent during an interview at his London mansion.
If Soros had retired from the money markets at 48 to become a philosopher which was his life plan when he set up his own Wall Street hedge fund at the age of 43 the world is unlikely to have heard of him, as either an ideas man or a money man. Even if he had ended his career 20 years later, he would have been remembered as little more than the big-stakes gambler who "broke the Bank of England" with his 1992 bet against the pound that earned him $US1.1 billion.
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This from the guy who said Abu Ghrab was as bad (or worse) than 911.
when all is said and done, he’ll be remembered as a Nazi collaborator.
Soros has two shorting hedge fund sidekicks in John Paulson (no relation to hank Paulson I think) and J.C. Flowers.
The Times of London said Paulson & his hedge fund made $10.8 billion last year. Destroying America’s financial system and getting Obama elected were profitable.
Any buses to Soros, Flowers or Paulson’s mansions with out of work people & 401K owners screaming for them to return the tens of billions?
Molon Labe!
Giving billions to assorted left wing kooks, terrorists, nihilists surely doesn't count as philanthropy, does it?
when all is said and done, hell be remembered as a Nazi collaborator.
That’s the silliest thing I’ve read in awhile. Don’t you know the left writes history? This POS will be a hero on the order of King Arthur.
Give George Soros to Putin’s Russia— they have a warrant for his arrest for corruption. Someone should tell George his puppet Obama is blowing it Big Time. Lets get some leadership here and not social re-engineering.
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