The world order needs a major overhaul.
GEORGE SOROSHedge 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.
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Increase your bets when you are confident and scale down your positions when you don’t have conviction.
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Fundamental analysis seeks to establish how underlying values are reflected in stock prices, whereas the theory of reflexivity shows how stock prices can influence underlying values.
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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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I’m not better than the next trader, just quicker at admitting my mistakes and moving on to the next opportunity.
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The prevailing wisdom is that markets are always right. I take the opposite position. I assume that markets are always wrong.
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My main concern is with the world order.
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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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I don’t panic. The same thing applies to me as to everybody else, so I’m given to euphoria and despair. And I would say that I basically have survived by recognizing my mistakes.
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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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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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The scope for improvement is infinite, precisely because perfection is unattainable.
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The sovereignty of states must be subordinated to international law and international institutions.
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Once a trend is established it tends to persist and to run it’s full course.
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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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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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