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blacksheep-1
10-09-2008, 12:29 PM
In 1969 he started his enormously successful Quantum Fund, which, over the ensuing three decades, yielded its long-term investors a four thousand-fold increase on their initial 1969 investments. During his career, Soros has orchestrated some extremely risky, ethically questionable deals. For instance, in a $10 billion 1992 deal whose success was contingent upon the devaluation of the British Pound, he earned himself a $1 billion profit and the title, "the man who broke the Bank of England." Over the years, he has amassed a personal fortune of some $7 billion.

Because this guy (Soros) is Obomber backa numba won, and I'm concerned that he's now buying the US.

Political_Man
10-09-2008, 12:37 PM
Source please. It doesn't matter if it's liberal, conservative, whatever. Posts without sources, especially those of current events or politics are totally useless.

blacksheep-1
10-09-2008, 12:52 PM
It's a conservative source, I don't recall the title, but it's not like this is some kind of mystery.
there's also this.
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/soros-plan-receives-mixed-reaction-in-senate-2008-10-01.html (http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/soros-plan-receives-mixed-reaction-in-senate-2008-10-01.html)

I'll try to locate the first.


Soros: The Life and Times of a Messianic Billionaire

By Michael T. Kaufman
Knopf
An excerpt from his clash with Malaysian Premier Mahathir
But Soros can get peeved at a leader and decide to bankroll a popular movement aimed at destabilizing a government. He's done it before! If I were a Malaysian citizen aware of what Soros had done in Poland and Czechoslovakia and the former Soviet Union, I'd be a little worried when he started calling my leader bad names. Who could stop him? Who could censure him?

No one.

Soros has stated that he doesn't do philanthropy in countries where he is involved as a trader, and vice versa. He has also noted that he considers his philanthropy moral and his money-management business "amoral." But is it really possible to make such distinctions? If the consequences of a billion-dollar bet on a currency change "anomaly" destabilizes a given country's economy, boosting unemployment and inflation, does that balance out the good karma that accrues from connecting all of Russia's universities to the Internet?
But at the same time, a guy like George Soros can't be voted out of office if you disagree with him. And when his billions of dollars can affect public policy, not just in his own country but in any country of his choosing, there is good reason to be a little bit nervous. Maybe Prime Minister Mahathir is indeed a menace to his own country. But on a bad day, a grumpy George Soros could be a menace to any country.

TampaDude
10-09-2008, 10:49 PM
Don't worry...if Soros ever really becomes a threat, our government will just have him eliminated. ;)