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If we care about universal principles such as freedom, democracy and the rule of law, we cannot leave them to the care of market forces; we must establish some other institutions to safeguard them.

George Soros

Studying economics is not a good preparation for dealing with it.
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Deal Economics Goodness Preparation Study
There is very little difference between speculation and investment. The only difference is basically that investments are successful speculations because if you successfully anticipate the future you make a speculative profit.
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Difference Future Investment Profit Success Yourself
The collapse of the global marketplace would be a traumatic event with unimaginable consequences. Yet I find it easier to imagine than the continuation of the present regime.
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Consequence Global Imagination Market Myself Place Present Trauma
Start by assuming the market is always wrong, so if you copy everybody else on Wall Street, you’re doomed to do poorly.
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Assumption Poor Start Wrong Yourself
If the bubbles contain a misconception, as they always do, then it can’t be maintained forever.
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Concept Forever Maintain
As I discovered, there is a great deal of similarity between a boom-bust process in the financial markets and the rise and fall of the Soviet system.
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Discover Greatness Marketing Rise Similar System
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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Difference Ideas Interest Kind Money Myself People Personal
Once a trend is established it tends to persist and to run it’s full course.
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Establishment Persistence Run
I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.
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Freedom Home Myself Open Society Value
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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Myself Obstacle Opinion Stability Thinking World
The financial markets play an active role in determining what’s going to happen, how the economy is going to function.
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Determination Economics Function Marketing Role
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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Criticism Myself Qualification Reality Study Theory
Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on.
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Government Misery Poverty Weakness World
When a long-term trend loses it’s momentum, short-term volatility tends to rise. It is easy to see why that should be so: the trend-following crowd is disoriented.
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Crowd Follow Lose Momentum Rise Time
The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios… The idea that you can actually predict what’s going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market.
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Financial Ideas Marketing Prediction
When money is free, the rational lender will keep on lending until there is no one else to lend to.
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Freedom Money Oneself

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