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George Soros
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 12
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I think there's a lot of merit in an international economy and global markets, but they're not sufficient because markets don't look after social needs.
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An open society calls itself open to improvement. It is based on the recognition that people have divergent views and interests, and that nobody is in possession of the ultimate truth.
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The generally accepted view is that markets are always right -- that is, market prices tend to discount future developments accurately even when it is unclear what those developments are. I start with the opposite view. I believe the market prices are always wrong in the sense that they present a biased view of the future.
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My original intention was to spend the money in my lifetime.
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Political debate is more interested in manipulating the truth, than finding the truth.
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America needs to follow the policies it has introduced in Germany. We have to go through a certain de-Nazification process.
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Of course, speculation will always make a crisis worse. If there is a weak point, it will expose it.
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Hedge funds are a very efficient way of managing money. But there are clearly some risks. Hedge funds use credit and credit is a source of instability. Transactions involving credit should be regulated.
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In politics, manipulating reality can take presidence over finding reality.
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President George W. Bush is endangering the United States and the world's safety while undermining American values.
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I'm only rich because I know when I'm wrong.
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I think it is natural that every country has to take care of its interests, but there are some interests that are common to all countries. There are some human interests, or we need also international cooperation. We've sometimes confused it with dictation.
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There is no doubt that the countries that now have a very large debt have not introduced the kind of structural reforms that Germany did and are therefore at a disadvantage. But the problem is that this disadvantage is becoming even more pronounced through the punitive policies in place.
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I passionately disagreed with Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson's plan to bail out the banks by using a public fund called the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) to help banks take toxic assets off their balance sheets. I argued that it would be much better to put the money where the hole was and replenish the equity of the banks themselves.
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If the bubbles contain a misconception, as they always do, then it can't be maintained forever.
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The bureaucratic method of building an integrated Europe has exhausted its potential.
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I am not well qualified to criticize the theory of rational expectations and the efficient market hypothesis because as a market participant I considered them so unrealistic that I never bothered to study them.
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Financial markets ... resent any kind of government interference but they hold a belief deep down that if conditions get really rough the authorities will step in.
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Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman.
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Who most benefits from keeping marijuana illegal? The greatest beneficiaries are the major criminal organizations in Mexico and elsewhere that earn billions of dollars annually from this illicit trade - and who would rapidly lose their competitive advantage if marijuana were a legal commodity.
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