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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

The reality is that financial markets are self-destabilizing; occasionally they tend toward disequilibrium, not equilibrium.
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Marketing Reality Science
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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Consequence Global Imagination Market Myself Place Present Trauma
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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Care Democracy Establishment Freedom Guard Institution Safe Universe
Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman.
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Business Career Human Man Myself Transformation
To be successful, you need leisure. You need time hanging heavily on your hands.
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Hands heavy Need Success Time Yourself
Discount the obvious, bet on the unexpected.
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Discount Expectation Inspirational Risk
Every bubble has two components: something – some real trend, and a misconception about that trend.
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Component Concept Reality Trend
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
Political debate is more interested in manipulating the truth, than finding the truth.
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Finding Interest Manipulation Politics Truth
It is credit that matters, not money (in other words, monetarism is a false ideology).
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Fake Ideology Money Word
If we carry this line of argument to its logical conclusion, the meaning of life consists of the flaws in one’s conceptions and what one does about them. Life can be seen as a fertile fallacy.
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Carry Flaw Life Logic Meaning Oneself See
I fancied myself as some kind of god or an economic reformer like Keynes.
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Economics Fancy God Kind
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
Misconceptions play a prominent role in my view of the world.
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Concept Play Role View World
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

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