George Soros
George Soros
George Sorosis a Hungarian-American business magnate, investor, philanthropist, political activist and author who is of Hungarian-Jewish ancestry and holds dual citizenship. He is chairman of Soros Fund Management. He is known as "The Man Who Broke the Bank of England" because of his short sale of US$10 billion worth of pounds, making him a profit of $1 billion during the 1992 Black Wednesday UK currency crisis. Soros is one of the 30 richest people in the world...
NationalityHungarian
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth12 August 1930
CityBudapest, Hungary
You have the potential of a breakdown of the entire system if you have a slowdown of economic activity in the center even as inflationary pressures mount, ... We're on the edge of it, yes.
Over half of all AIDS cases involving children are directly related to unclean syringes,
There's (a) problem that I think is brewing, and that is the end of the housing boom in the United States and the ability of households to spend more than they earn because the value of their house is rising.
This asymmetry in the treatment of lenders and borrowers is a major source of instability in the global capitalist system and it needs to be corrected,
Something really is broken in the international financial architecture, ... We're now in the 20th month of financial crisis. Yet this crisis was brewing, it was the most anticipated crisis in recent history.
Now, I have not worked out the details, because I don't think it's for me to work out the details. It's for them to work out the details.
I think the (Brazilian) government has done most of the things it promised to do on the fiscal front, ... However, it has mismanaged the process so badly that the currency overshot.
I think the whole idea of eradicating the drug problem is a false idea, ... You can discourage the use of drugs, you can forbid the use of drugs, you can treat people who are addicted to drugs, but you cannot eradicate drugs. Once you accept this point, you may be able to develop a more rational approach to the problem.
I think that it will lead to reforms and I am sure that the region will recover because it has tremendous energy,
I think they got the facts wrong. There was no case of insider trading.
He is actually doing the right thing for himself because he is preserving himself in power, and he puts himself in a position where he can bail out his cronies who are in financial difficulties, including his son and so on,
Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is make by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.
Clinton has a concrete goal of getting China into the WTO, his near-term agenda is to get China in.
I really want to help people who are hurt. And if I do that, I feel that my money is well-spent,