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The strength of this country lies in the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights and the freedom of speech and thought.

George Soros

Stock market bubbles don’t grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception.
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Concept Growth Market Reality Stock
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
Political debate is more interested in manipulating the truth, than finding the truth.
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Finding Interest Manipulation Politics Truth
My approach works not by making valid predictions but by allowing me to correct false ones.
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Correct Fake Myself Oneself Prediction Valid Work
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
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
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
The scope for improvement is infinite, precisely because perfection is unattainable.
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Attain Improvement Infinite Perfection
Discount the obvious, bet on the unexpected.
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Discount Expectation Inspirational Risk
Market prices are always wrong in the sense that they present a biased view of the future.
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Future Market Present Price View Wrong
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
My sense of insecurity keeps me alert, always ready to correct my errors.
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Correction Errors Insecurity Myself
To others, being wrong is a source of shame; to me, recognizing my mistakes is a source of pride.
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Mistake Myself Pride Recognition Shame Wrong
I’m only rich because I know when I’m wrong.
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Aware Myself Rich Wrong
Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman.
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Business Career Human Man Myself Transformation
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

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