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Sterling's finished, says Soros partner as the pound plunges to new low
Daily Mail ^ | January 20, 2009 | Nicola Boden and Bill Condie

Posted on 01/20/2009 2:55:12 PM PST by rightwingintelligentsia

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I know there have been similar stories today, but this one has me thinking--did Soros manipulate the Pound?
1 posted on 01/20/2009 2:55:14 PM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

He’s done it before..


2 posted on 01/20/2009 2:56:37 PM PST by mnehring
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Yeah! A deflated pound. I can take my sister to Scotland!!


3 posted on 01/20/2009 2:57:41 PM PST by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

They need to go after this guy.


4 posted on 01/20/2009 2:58:56 PM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Meanwhile, the Irish are threatening to pull out of the Euro if something isn’t done soon.


5 posted on 01/20/2009 2:59:06 PM PST by diefree
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

No doubt


6 posted on 01/20/2009 2:59:48 PM PST by Perdogg (Only the hypnotized never lie)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

The Brits are some of the “good guys” - hate to see an iceland happen to them.


7 posted on 01/20/2009 3:00:33 PM PST by GOPJ ("A consensus of 100 scientists is undone by one fact." - - Einstein (take that Al Gore))
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Soros did manipulate the Sterling in 1992, but today the FX markets are many times bigger now than in 1992...this means that Soros is nowhere near big enough to control that market. The Pound is getting pounded because the credit crisis in Britain is worse than it is over here if you could imagine. Brits were even more levered on their personal balance sheets than people in the US - amazing! They got big problems. So does the rest of the world.


8 posted on 01/20/2009 3:03:00 PM PST by Carlo Gambino
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I believe Soros has brought down the banking systems of Britain and Belgium. Ten years ago he vowed to bring down the USA economy. That's about the time that the sub-prime mortgage scheme ramped up. Would I be surprised to find Soros behind our economic woes? Not at all.
9 posted on 01/20/2009 3:04:37 PM PST by originalbuckeye
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Having secretly helped nurture (financial and commodity trades), and aided those in politics who helped nurture (Acorn, etc.), the tipping point (not the Fed’s inflation) in the U.S. current financial malaise, Soros is now working with his international Mercedes-Marxist friends to try to insure the Brits are driven into the hands of the Euro.


10 posted on 01/20/2009 3:04:45 PM PST by Wuli
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To: Deb

LOL. I was thinking much the same — time to tour Scotland again. This time knowing more Gaelic.


11 posted on 01/20/2009 3:05:17 PM PST by sionnsar (IranAzadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5(SONY)|http://trad-anglican.faithweb.com/|TaglineSpaceForRent)
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To: originalbuckeye

Strangely enough, PBS did a documentary the aired the other night and the only thing you could take away was that the Father of the Hedge Fund, Soros, caused the whole economic meltdown.


12 posted on 01/20/2009 3:08:52 PM PST by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Euro is pretty screwed too. 1.28 today, down from 1.57 a mere six months ago. I predict we’ll see parity on both this year.


13 posted on 01/20/2009 3:10:46 PM PST by montag813 (www.FreepShop.com)
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To: Deb

He is an international criminal and a minyan of Satan. He should be jailed. He reminds me of the old Twilight Zone episode of the “Howling Man.” It would not surprise me that he is the devil incarnate.


14 posted on 01/20/2009 3:15:28 PM PST by lone star annie
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

I would not have money in ANY currency right now.


15 posted on 01/20/2009 3:16:18 PM PST by GeronL (DAY 1, YEAR 0 - The first day of the Oministration. The nightmare begins.)
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Good for Ireland!


16 posted on 01/20/2009 3:16:58 PM PST by GeronL (DAY 1, YEAR 0 - The first day of the Oministration. The nightmare begins.)
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To: lone star annie

He sure looks like the Devil.


17 posted on 01/20/2009 3:17:53 PM PST by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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To: freekitty

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2132937/posts?page=111#111


18 posted on 01/20/2009 3:17:55 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

The Pound Sterling will outlast European Monetary Union. A weak currency can be a boon to exporting economies.


19 posted on 01/20/2009 3:32:29 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

UK banks are in even worse shape than US banks - both systems are insolvent but the Brits are going to go first. We’ll follow shortly - anybody watch the action in US banks Friday and today ?

If Obama were really smart he’d let the insolvent banks fail and use the rest of the TARP to create solvent ones. 350 billion at a 10:1 leverage would be +3 T of bank lending capability.

But he’s a mouthpiece of the Wall Street pigmen, so he’ll do the wrong thing and we’ll be nationalizing banks right after the UK does.


20 posted on 01/20/2009 3:48:24 PM PST by nicola_tesla (www.fedupusa.org)
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