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The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States. [This idea] happens to coincide with the prevailing opinion in the world. And I think that's rather shocking for Americans to hear.

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George Soros
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 12
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I rely a great deal on animal instincts.
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When it comes to social consequences, they've got all different people acting in different ways, very difficult to even have a proper criterion of success. So, it's a difficult task.
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Proposition 19 already is a winner no matter what happens on election day. The mere fact of its being on the ballot has elevated and legitimized public discourse about marijuana and marijuana policy in ways I could not have imagined a year ago.
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Whenever there is a conflict between universal principles and self-interest, self-interest is likely to prevail.
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I think that my foundation uses the money better than the government does. In any event, I do pay taxes.
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Markets are imperfect. So you do need regulation, knowing that the regulators are also human.
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The main difference between me and other people who have amassed this kind of money is that I am primarily interested in ideas, and I don't have much personal use for money.
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Increase your bets when you are confident and scale down your positions when you don't have conviction.
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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 fancied myself as some kind of god or an economic reformer like Keynes
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China could easily emerge as the great winner if the Chinese leaders handle the situation well. On the other hand, they could also turn out to be the biggest losers if they handle it poorly. If the management turns out be wrong, this could lead to a political crisis in China.
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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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The lower interest rates fueled housing and consumption booms in countries such as Spain and Ireland. At the same time, Germany, struggling with the burdens of reunification, tightened its belt and became more competitive. All this led to a wide divergence in economic performance. Europe became divided into creditor and debtor countries.
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The generally accepted theory is that financial markets tend towards equilibrium, and...discount the future correctly. I operate using a different theory, according to which financial markets cannot possibly discount the future correctly because the do not merely discount the future they help to shape it.
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I call government that works the best for people open society, which is basically just another more general term for a democracy that is - you call it maybe a liberal democracy. It's not only majority rule but also respect for minorities and minority opinions and the rule of law. So it's really a sort of institutional democracy.
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As a society we can't live without moral considerations. We do have to protect the public good. And markets are not designed to do that, so we need a political process.
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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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The prevailing wisdom is that markets are always right. I take the opposite position. I assume that markets are always wrong.
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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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