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I’m only rich because I know when I’m wrong…I basically have survived by recognizing my mistakes.

George Soros

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
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
Making an investment decision is like formulating a scientific hypothesis and submitting it to a practical test.
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Investment Practice Science Submit
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
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
The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.
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Obstacle Order Stability World
Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.
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Certain Expectation Marketing Money State
Unfortunately, the more complex the system, the greater the room for error.
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Complex Errors Fortunate Mistake Room System
It is sort of a disease when you consider yourself some kind of god, the creator of everything, but I feel comfortable about it now since I began to live it out.
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Beginning Comfortable Creation God Kind Live Myself Sick
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
I’m only rich because I know when I’m wrong…I basically have survived by recognizing my mistakes.
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Basic Mistake Recognition Rich Wrong
Political debate is more interested in manipulating the truth, than finding the truth.
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Finding Interest Manipulation Politics Truth
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 trouble with institutional investors is that their performance is usually measured relative to their peer group and not by an absolute yardstick. This makes them trend followers by definition.
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Follow Institution Performance Relation Trend Trouble
No individual anonymous participant can influence the prices and therefore you really can speculate in the market without paying attention to morality. That’s one of the positive features of markets. That’s why they function.
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Attention Feature Influence Market Moral Oneself Participant Pay Positive Price
Short term volatility is greatest at turning points and diminishes as a trend becomes established.
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Diminish Establishment Greatness Short Time

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