When interest rates are low we have conditions for asset bubbles to develop, and they are developing at the moment. The ultimate asset bubble is gold.
GEORGE SOROSIf investing is entertaining, if you’re having fun, you’re probably not making any money. Good investing is boring.
More George Soros Quotes
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If the bubbles contain a misconception, as they always do, then it can’t be maintained forever.
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The sovereignty of states must be subordinated to international law and international institutions.
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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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Investors operate with limited funds and intelligence, they do not need to know everything. As long as they understand something better than others, they have an edge.
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Law has become a business. Health care has become a business. Unfortunately, politics has also become a business. That really undermines society.
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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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Market prices are always wrong in the sense that they present a biased view of the future.
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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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I fancied myself as some kind of god or an economic reformer like Keynes.
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Studying economics is not a good preparation for dealing with it.
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Market prices are always wrong.
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The global crisis is caused by pathologies inherent in the global financial system itself.
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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.
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If I had to sum up my practical skills, I would use one word: survival. And operating a hedge fund utilized my training in survival to the fullest.
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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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