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Political debate is more interested in manipulating the truth, than finding the truth.

George Soros

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
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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Establish Fundamental Lying Price Reflection Seek Value
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
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
The reality is that financial markets are self-destabilizing; occasionally they tend toward disequilibrium, not equilibrium.
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Marketing Reality Science
Increase your bets when you are confident and scale down your positions when you don’t have conviction.
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Confidence Position Scale Yourself
To my mind, there is a solution which has to do with democracy, because democratic governments are subject to the will of the people. So, if the people will it, you can actually create international institutions through the democratic states.
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Every bubble consists of a trend that can be observed in the real world and a misconception relating to that trend. The two elements interact with each other in a reflexive manner.
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Element Myself Reality Relate Trend World
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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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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Business Health Law Politics Society
Unfortunately, the more complex the system, the greater the room for error.
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Complex Errors Fortunate Mistake Room System
What works for Germany can’t work for the rest of Europe: No country can run a chronic surplus without others running deficits.
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Country Resource Run Work
The strength of this country lies in the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights and the freedom of speech and thought.
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Market prices are always wrong.
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When money is free, the rational lender will keep on lending until there is no one else to lend to.
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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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