[dennisw]

George is still bitter from his little dance with the internet bubble. He waited 3 years and then went long in early 2000, lost several billion in 60 days and if I recall correctly fired the top man and closed the fund. 

That's my recollection too. Fired the honcho and closed the fund is right. Prolly bought a lot of Yahoo and Amazon at 200$

Kind of lost his magic touch without his sleazy palm greasing inside info. 

He and fund managers had the inside track to all kinds of dot bomb crud and lost big

Thanks for playing George, now shut up and go hug a communist.

Let's give him credit. He's greedy bast**d who was smart enough to make no money draining pledges to the UN. Unlike --->>>

 

[T. Jefferson]

He's greedy bast**d who was smart enough to make no money draining pledges to the UN like Turner.

Ted drops out of 90% of his pledges...his $1B pledge over 10 years to the UN was to be paid out of appreciation of his AOL stock. He made one payment, unless they spin off AOL NOW before the indictments come he'll get out of his UN pledge too.

Soros has philanthropy in 50 countries. It was a fascinating attempt to bring capitalism in poor communist countries. However, he's taken a hard left turn in the last few years and bashes Bush vs. Terrorism and anything pro American. Soros Foundation