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The financial markets play an active role in determining what’s going to happen, how the economy is going to function.

George Soros

Discount the obvious, bet on the unexpected.
GEORGE SOROS

Discount Expectation Inspirational Risk
The reality is that financial markets are self-destabilizing; occasionally they tend toward disequilibrium, not equilibrium.
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Marketing Reality Science
The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios… The idea that you can actually predict what’s going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market.
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Financial Ideas Marketing Prediction
Studying economics is not a good preparation for dealing with it.
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Deal Economics Goodness Preparation Study
Revolutions usually start with enthusiasm and end in tears.
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End Enthusiasm Revolution Start Tears
Market prices are always wrong.
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Market One Liner Price Wrong
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
Market prices are always wrong in the sense that they present a biased view of the future.
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Future Market Present Price View Wrong
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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Democracy Government International Mindset People Solution State
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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Greatness Interest Member Open Possible Society
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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Concept Growth Market Reality Stock
The scope for improvement is infinite, precisely because perfection is unattainable.
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Attain Improvement Infinite Perfection
There is always a divergence between our perception and what actually exists.
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Existence Ourselves Perception
If the bubbles contain a misconception, as they always do, then it can’t be maintained forever.
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Concept Forever Maintain
Once a trend is established it tends to persist and to run it’s full course.
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Establishment Persistence Run
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

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