[hoosiermama]

George Soros (pronounced /ˈsɔroʊs/ or /ˈsɔrəs/,[2] Hungarian IPA: [ˈʃoroʃ]) (born August 12, 1930, in Budapest, Hungary, as György Schwartz) is a Hungarian-born Jewish American financial speculator, stock investor, philanthropist, and political activist.[3]

Soros is famously known for "breaking the Bank of England" on Black Wednesday in 1992. With an estimated current[update] net worth of around $9 billion, he is ranked by Forbes as the 99th-richest person in the world.[1]

Soros is chairman of Soros Fund Management and the Open Society Institute and is also a former member of the Board of Directors of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is also one of three initial funders of Center for American Progress, and is represented on the board. Soros's support for the Solidarity labor movement in Poland, as well as the Czechoslovak human rights organization Charter 77, contributed to ending Soviet Union political dominance in those countries.[4] ..., ..., he is known for having donated large sums of money in a failed effort to defeat President George W. Bush's bid for re-election in 2004.

[thecodont]

..., he [George Soros] is known for having donated large sums of money in a failed effort to defeat President George W. Bush's bid for re-election in 2004.

So, why is 2008 so very different from 2004?

[Calpernia]

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