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.
GEORGE SOROSAmerican supremacy is the greatest threat to the world today.
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The main difference between me and other people who have amassed this kind of money is that I am primarily interested in ideas, and I don’t have much personal use for money.
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I fancied myself as some kind of god or an economic reformer like Keynes.
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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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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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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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My main concern is with the world order.
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Unfortunately, the more complex the system, the greater the room for error.
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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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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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When a long-term trend loses it’s momentum, short-term volatility tends to rise. It is easy to see why that should be so: the trend-following crowd is disoriented.
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The main enemy of the open society, I believe, is no longer the communist but the capitalist threat.
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Making an investment decision is like formulating a scientific hypothesis and submitting it to a practical test.
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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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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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Increase your bets when you are confident and scale down your positions when you don’t have conviction.
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