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My main concern is with the world order

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George Soros
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 12
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Market prices are always wrong in the sense that they present a biased view of the future.
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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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It is better to have a cat and mouse game where the cat has the upper hand than a cat and mouse game where the mice are ruling. Because the latter means that the market participants are given free range. That was actually the big misconception of our national hero Ronald Reagan, who always talked about the magic of the market.
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The pro-Israel lobby has been remarkably successful in suppressing criticism. Politicians challenge it at their peril because of the lobby's ability to influence political contributions.
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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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You could adjust the punishment to fit the infraction. Even a small fine would be enough to bring an errant government to heel.
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When you sell options, you get paid for assuming risk. That can be a profitable business, but it does not mix well with the risks inherent in a leveraged portfolio.
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Now that I have called you on your false accusation, you are using additional smear tactics.
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Political debate is more interested in manipulating the truth, than finding the truth.
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Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman.
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The worse a situation becomes the less it takes to turn it around, the bigger the upside.
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However, even a strong government can't perform miracles. It needs money from the taxpayers.
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Market prices are always wrong.
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The people currently in charge have forgotten the first principle of an open society, namely that we may be wrong and that there has to be free discussion. That it's possible to be opposed to the policies without being unpatriotic.
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I contend that financial markets never reflect the underlying reality accurately they always distort it in some way or another and the distortions find expression in market prices. Those distortions can, occasionally, find ways to affect the fundamentals that market prices are supposed to reflect.
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The world order needs a major overhaul.
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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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I rely a great deal on animal instincts.
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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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Bush's war in Iraq has done untold damage to the United States. It has impaired our military power and undermined the morale of our armed forces. Our troops were trained to project overwhelming power. They were not trained for occupation duties.
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