Political debate is more interested in manipulating the truth, than finding the truth.
GEORGE SOROSThe global crisis is caused by pathologies inherent in the global financial system itself.
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Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.
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I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.
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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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I fancied myself as some kind of god or an economic reformer like Keynes.
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I rely a great deal on animal instincts.
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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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Once a trend is established it tends to persist and to run it’s full course.
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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.
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Every bubble has two components: something – some real trend, and a misconception about that trend.
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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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Hedge 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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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 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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To others, being wrong is a source of shame; to me, recognizing my mistakes is a source of pride.
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Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.
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