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.
GEORGE SOROSIf we carry this line of argument to its logical conclusion, the meaning of life consists of the flaws in one’s conceptions and what one does about them. Life can be seen as a fertile fallacy.
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I fancied myself as some kind of god or an economic reformer like Keynes.
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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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It’s not whether you’re right or wrong that’s important, but how much money you make when you’re right and how much you lose when you’re wrong.
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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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There is no point in being confident and having a small position.
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Unfortunately, the more complex the system, the greater the room for error.
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American supremacy is the greatest threat to the world today.
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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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To be successful, you need leisure. You need time hanging heavily on your hands.
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The scope for improvement is infinite, precisely because perfection is unattainable.
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It is credit that matters, not money (in other words, monetarism is a false ideology).
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The reality is that financial markets are self-destabilizing; occasionally they tend toward disequilibrium, not equilibrium.
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The sovereignty of states must be subordinated to international law and international institutions.
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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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The hardest thing to judge is what level of risk is safe.
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