It is credit that matters, not money (in other words, monetarism is a false ideology).
GEORGE SOROSTo 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.
More George Soros Quotes
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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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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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My approach works not by making valid predictions but by allowing me to correct false ones.
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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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In politics, manipulating reality can take presidence over finding reality.
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Start by assuming the market is always wrong, so if you copy everybody else on Wall Street, you’re doomed to do poorly.
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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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Studying economics is not a good preparation for dealing with it.
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Markets can influence the events that they anticipate.
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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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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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I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.
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Market prices are always wrong in the sense that they present a biased view of the future.
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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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The worse a situation becomes the less it takes to turn it around, the bigger the upside.
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