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Soros Cashing In On Financial Meltdown
Canada Free Press ^ | 3/28/2009 | Bob Parks

Posted on 04/01/2009 9:41:26 AM PDT by AJMCQ

While the U.S. Congress (and American left in general) is demonizing anyone in the financial sector that’s making any kind of money, here’s one gentleman Barney Frank would never dream of grilling up on the Hill.

And talk about the days of seat-squirming the left would be doing after such testimony…

George Soros, who predicted the global financial crisis twice before, was one of the few people to anticipate and prepare for the current economic collapse. Mr Soros said his prediction meant he was better able to brace his Quantum investment fund against the global storm.

But other investors failed to take notice of his prediction and his decision to come out of retirement in 2007 to manage the fund made him $US2.9 billion. And while the financial crisis continued to deepen across the globe, the 78-year-old still managed to make $1.1 billion last year.

‘It is, in a way, the culminating point of my life’s work,’ he told national newspaper The Australian.

Funny how people who make money are demeaned as evil, except when it’s one of the people who fund them.

And when you think about how many people worldwide have lost their jobs and had their lives totally disshevled because of the economic crash, while he brags about how it’s “the culmination of his life’s work”, we really see what true progressives are all about.

(Excerpt) Read more at canadafreepress.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: georgesoros; marketmanipulation; soros; waroncapitalism
Bob Parks is always right...

Where are the people who are supposed to go after market manipulation...etal. Is the entire federal law enforcement community in Seotoro's pocket?

1 posted on 04/01/2009 9:41:27 AM PDT by AJMCQ
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To: AJMCQ

It’s easy to make a prediction and have it come true if you have democrats doing your bidding for you.


2 posted on 04/01/2009 9:45:24 AM PDT by RC2 (http://www.youtube.com/user/Funbobbasso)
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To: AJMCQ

This is Soros’ MO.

He is still wanted in Russia for currency manipulation. He made billions when the Rouble crashed, going from $0.16 to $0.03.

The Russian authorities raided Georgie’s offices in Moscow in November 2005, but Georgie wasn’t there. A lot of the chumps that worked for him in his Moscow office are spending the rest of their considerably shortened lives in miserable Russian prisons.

Too bad we don’t have an extridition treaty with Russia.


3 posted on 04/01/2009 9:47:08 AM PDT by Westbrook (Having more children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
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To: AJMCQ
And while the financial crisis continued to deepen across the globe, the 78-year-old still managed to make $1.1 billion last year. ‘It is, in a way, the culminating point of my life’s work,’ he told national newspaper The Australian.

Pathetic.

4 posted on 04/01/2009 9:48:07 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: AJMCQ
Where are the people who are supposed to go after market manipulation...

If there has ever been a case of the foxes being in charge of the hen house, this is that case. And they strut and posture and bellow at those who have been dragged before their 'committees.'

5 posted on 04/01/2009 9:48:48 AM PDT by RobinOfKingston (Democrats, the party of evil. Republicans, the party of stupid.)
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To: AJMCQ
The October Surprise of Election2008 is ignored by the MSM
more interested in selling their books than reported the news.

October Surprise to THROW Election2008, driven by Paulson/Geithner/Dodd/Obama and the so-willing MSM.

Rep. Kanjorski: $550 Billion Disappeared in "Electronic Run On the Banks"
"On Thursday Sept 15, 2008 at roughly 11 AM The Federal Reserve
noticed a tremendous draw down of money market accounts in the USA
to the tune of $550 Billion dollars in a matter of an hour or two.
Money was being removed electronically. The treasury tried to help with $150 Billion.
But could not stem the tide. It was an electronic run on the banks
The treasury intervened but had they not closed down the accounts they estimated that by 2 PM that afternoon.
Within 3 hours. $5.5 Trillion would have been withdrawled
and collapsed and within 24 hours the world economy."


FLASHBACK: from 9/15/08:

“U.S. President George W. Bush said Monday he is confident
that the markets are resilient and can deal with the latest financial blows.
“We are working to reduce disruptions and minimize the impact
these financial market developments on the broader economy.” ...

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama
said eight years of Bush “brought us the most serious financial crisis
since the Great Depression.”

His Republican rival said John McCain said he was happy the
federal government decided not to use taxpayer dollars to bail out Lehman Brothers.”

How did Obama know THEN
that we would experience the ‘most serious financial crisis since the Great Depression’
when those who did not plan the takeover would not know for three more months?


October 10, 2008, another massive selloff.


"Soros: Obama Will Listen to Me"

6 posted on 04/01/2009 9:52:09 AM PDT by Diogenesis
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To: AJMCQ

Soros better enjoy his last months on earth, because an eternity in hell is a long, long time.


7 posted on 04/01/2009 9:54:35 AM PDT by Sig Sauer P220
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To: AJMCQ

In the coming storm, Soros will not find a rock to hind under. This SOB and his seed should be skinned alive.


8 posted on 04/01/2009 10:03:21 AM PDT by Dogbert41
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To: AJMCQ

So we have established a precedent that the gummint can come after money that was “earned improperly” now. So why are we not taking Soros money away from him?

Mlon Labe!


9 posted on 04/01/2009 10:08:24 AM PDT by wastoute (translation of tag "Come and get them (bastards)" and the Scout Motto)
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To: AJMCQ
Is the entire federal law enforcement community in Seotoro’s pocket?

Most of our government are pompous, Louie the XIV, egotistical, lazy, pseudo intellectual, greedy @sses who only worry about money and their constituents (so they can get reelected to get more money/perks/power). Of course they are in Soros’s pocket along with the MSM. All need to be purged. I know just the laxative - the American people getting fed up!

10 posted on 04/01/2009 10:08:42 AM PDT by Bitsy
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To: AJMCQ

Certainly the man who planned the mess we are in now should have made money off it.


11 posted on 04/01/2009 10:12:41 AM PDT by Venturer
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To: AJMCQ
‘It is, in a way, the culminating point of my life’s work,’ he told national newspaper The Australian.

If he's not careful, those works may land him in the other place besides Heaven - and that place is no fun.

12 posted on 04/01/2009 10:28:37 AM PDT by sr4402
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To: RC2
I wonder if Soros will find his next challenge to be how to get rid of a US President. It took him a while longer than he expected to elect one. Now that he has done that, what does he want next?
Money isn't his goal. I am guessing that when his boytoy is no longer useful for George he will find a way to destroy him.
13 posted on 04/01/2009 10:30:32 AM PDT by madinmadtown (It is good to be right.)
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To: Diogenesis

bump


14 posted on 04/01/2009 10:30:40 AM PDT by gibsosa
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To: sr4402

What would it profit a man to gain the whole world but lose his soul?


15 posted on 04/01/2009 10:40:51 AM PDT by TexasRepublic (I am inconsolate over the death of our country.)
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To: TexasRepublic
What would it profit a man to gain the whole world but lose his soul?

Exactly: The Lord said it well!

16 posted on 04/01/2009 10:46:21 AM PDT by sr4402
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To: Diogenesis

Do you know if the picture you posted of B.O. walking with that book entitled, “The Post-American World”, is an actual picture, or if it has been photo-shopped?

If it is photo-shopped, it isn’t going to help our credibility here on FR to circulate it.


17 posted on 04/01/2009 11:18:08 AM PDT by Matchett-PI (The brush fire's lit - the revolution has begun! Lead, follow, or get the hell outta the way!)
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To: Westbrook

Soros CAUSES market crashes, that’s how he makes his money.


18 posted on 04/01/2009 11:29:51 AM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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