The financial markets play an active role in determining what’s going to happen, how the economy is going to function.
GEORGE SOROSIncrease your bets when you are confident and scale down your positions when you don’t have conviction.
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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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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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The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.
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Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman.
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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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An open society is a society which allows its members the greatest possible degree of freedom in pursuing their interests compatible with the interests of others.
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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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Find the trend whose premise is false, and bet against it.
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American supremacy is the greatest threat to the world today.
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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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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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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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The global crisis is caused by pathologies inherent in the global financial system itself.
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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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If 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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