and warns against the danger of nationalistic solutions to the economic crisis. A recent example of reflexivity in modern financial markets is that of the debt and equity of housing markets. The Bank of Finland and the Finnish Government commented at the time they believed that a "conspiracy" was impossible.[78]. He donated $128.5 million to support the Democratic Party in the election cycle. [91][92], On September 27, 2012, Soros announced that he was donating $1million to the super PAC backing President Barack Obama's reelection Priorities USA Action. "[205], In January 2015, he said that "Europe needs to wake up and recognize that it is under attack from Russia" and urged Western countries to expand economic sanctions against Russia for its support of separatists in eastern Ukraine. [84] Soros eventually decided against participating in the group effort, opting to personally move forward with his strategy of accumulating shares in four French companies: Socit Gnrale, as well as Suez, Paribas, and the Compagnie Gnrale d'lectricit. [74] The estimated cost of Black Wednesday to the UK Treasury was 3.4billion. Just how influential is billionaire philanthropist George Soros? So it's three books predicting disaster. Explaining his father's motives, he said, "The reason you fight for an open society is because thats the only society that you can live in, as a Jewunless you become a nationalist and only fight for your own rights in your own state. [132], In October 2010, Soros donated $1million to support California's Proposition 19. In 2008, Soros donated $400,000 to help fund a successful ballot measure in Massachusetts known as the Massachusetts Sensible Marijuana Policy Initiative which decriminalized possession of less than 1oz (28g) of marijuana in the state. None of the devices exploded. As of November 2022, he has a net worth of US$6.7billion, according to Forbes. [17] Based on his early studies of philosophy, Soros formulated the General Theory of Reflexivity for capital markets, which he says renders a clear picture of asset bubbles and fundamental/market value of securities, as well as value discrepancies used for shorting and swapping stocks. Soros's theories were originally dismissed by economists,[149] but have received more attention after the 2008 crash including becoming the focus of an issue of the Journal of Economic Methodology. The concept of reflexivity attempts to explain why markets moving from one equilibrium state to another tend to overshoot or undershoot. Soros has been active as a philanthropist since the 1970s, when he began providing funds to help black students attend the University of Cape Town in apartheid South Africa,[106] and began funding dissident movements behind the Iron Curtain. In reaction to the late-2000s recession, he founded the Institute for New Economic Thinking in October 2009. [168], In 2017, Israeli businessman Beny Steinmetz filed a $10-million lawsuit against Soros, alleging that Soros had influenced the government of Guinea to freeze Steinmetz's company BSG Resources out of iron ore mining contracts in the African country due to "long-standing animus toward the state of Israel". The New York Times termed this endeavor a "departure" for Soros whose philanthropic focus had been on fostering democracy and good government, but Soros noted that most poverty resulted from bad governance. [39][40] Tivadar liked the new name because it is a palindrome and because of its meaning. George Soros is a celebrated hedge fund tycoon who managed client money in New York from 1969 to 2011. ", "Black Lives Matters Defender May Become Philadelphia's Next District Attorney", "Here are the mega-donors and police unions pouring millions into the L.A. County district attorney race", "Another billionaire weighs in on state's attorney's race: George Soros gives $2M to group backing Foxx", "Biden Banks $242 Million as Big-Name Donors Write Huge Checks", "Analysis | Meet the mega-donors pumping millions into the 2022 midterms", "Waldemar Nielsen, Expert on Philanthropy, Dies at 88", "Soros: In revolutionary times the impossible becomes possible", "Saving Soviet Science: The Impact of Grants When Government R&D Funding Disappears", "World: Soros Says Revolutions Don't Build Democracies", "Alexander Lomaia Minister of Education and Science (Georgia)", "Does Foreign Funding Make NGOs into Puppets? During this period, Soros developed the theory of reflexivity to extend the ideas of his tutor at the London School of Economics, Karl Popper. After Bush's reelection, Soros and other donors backed a new political fundraising group called Democracy Alliance, which supports progressive causes and the formation of a stronger progressive infrastructure in America. [80] In 1998's The Crisis of Global Capitalism: Open Society Endangered, Soros explained his role in the crisis as follows: The financial crisis that originated in Thailand in 1997 was particularly unnerving because of its scope and severity By the beginning of 1997, it was clear to Soros Fund Management that the discrepancy between the trade account and the capital account was becoming untenable. A statement on Reuters website reads: Reuters erroneously published an advance obituary of financier and philanthropist George Soros. Forbes called him the "most generous giver" (in terms of percentage of net worth). George Soros, "On Israel, America and AIPAC". 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In 2003, former Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker wrote in the foreword of Soros's book The Alchemy of Finance: George Soros has made his mark as an enormously successful speculator, wise enough to largely withdraw when still way ahead of the game. From 1963 to 1973, Soros's experience as a vice president at Arnhold and S. Bleichroeder resulted in little enthusiasm for the job; business was slack following the introduction of the Interest Equalization Tax, which undermined the viability of Soros's European trading. Reuters Publishes George Soros Obituary In Error News agency declares billionaire financier dead before removing article after 30 minutes. At the same time, I do believe that attitudes toward Israel are influenced by Israel's policies, and attitudes toward the Jewish community are influenced by the pro-Israel lobby's success in suppressing divergent views. [178] Orbn and his government's representative said they had a "zero tolerance" of antisemitism, explaining the posters were aiming to persuade voters that Soros was a "national security risk". He then established the Soros Fund and gave investors in the Double Eagle Fund the option of transferring to that or staying with Arnhold and S. Bleichroeder. Soros later described this time to writer Michael Lewis: "The Jewish Council asked the little kids to hand out the deportation notices. "[199] In November 2015, Russia banned the Open Society Foundations (OSF) and the Open Society Institute (OSI)two pro-democracy charities founded by Sorosstating they posed a "threat to the foundations of the constitutional system of the Russian Federation and the security of the state. [244], In July 2017, Soros was elected an Honorary Fellow of the British Academy (HonFBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences. He has been the target of multiple conspiracy theories and misinformation on social media ( here ).. In 1959, after three years at F. M. Mayer, Soros moved to Wertheim & Co. One prominent Soros-related conspiracy theory is that he is behind the European migrant crisis or importing migrants to European countries. Who is George Soros? Share. "[105] From 1979, as an advocate of 'open societies', Soros financially supported dissidents including Poland's Solidarity movement, Charter 77 in Czechoslovakia and Andrei Sakharov in the Soviet Union. "[128], Soros has helped fund the non-profit group Independent Diplomat, established by the former British diplomat Carne Ross. These efforts, mostly in Central and Eastern Europe, occur primarily through the Open Society Foundations (originally Open Society Institute or OSI) and national Soros Foundations, which sometimes go under other names (such as the Stefan Batory Foundation in Poland). He. Most of these books were published with funds donated by Soros's charities. There's no sign that we are anywhere near a bottom. A rumor appeared on Twitter on July 28 saying that the Hungarian born billionaire had died at the age of 89. In fact, when Norman Lamont said just before the devaluation that he would borrow nearly $15billion to defend sterling, we were amused because that was about how much we wanted to sell. [221], In July 2020, Soros's Foundations announced plans to give $220 million in grants for racial justice groups, criminal justice reform and civic engagement.[222]. She opines that after the revolution the Soros Foundation and the NGOs were integrated into power. Tamiko Bolton wedding to George took place in an elaborate wedding ceremony that was highly publicized. [177] Lydia Gall of Human Rights Watch asserted that it was reminiscent of Nazi posters during the Second World War featuring "'the laughing Jew'". The article still appeared on Reuters' website as of 6:19 p.m. (SCROLL DOWN TO SEE A SCREENSHOT) Reuters apologized for the incident via Twitter: It allows us to focus on the final outcome rather than the process that leads up to it. At 5:41 p.m. on Thursday afternoon, the 162-year-old news agency accidentally published a prewritten obituary for Soros, complete with dummy text for the place and . [85] However, the case was reopened a few years later, and the French Supreme Court confirmed the conviction on June 14, 2006,[86] although it reduced the penalty to 940,000. [47][48] In 1945, Soros survived the Siege of Budapest, in which Soviet and German forces fought house-to-house through the city. [172] Soros called Steinmetz's suit "frivolous and entirely false" and said that it was "a desperate PR stunt meant to deflect attention from BSGR's mounting legal problems across multiple jurisdictions". He planned to stay for five years, enough time to save $500,000, after which he intended to return to England to study philosophy. [After] the boy cried wolf three times the wolf really came.[157]. According to The New York Times 1997, the Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko has been widely criticized in the West and in Russia for his efforts to control the Belarus Soros Foundation and other independent NGOs and to suppress civil and human rights. Reuters has accidentally posted an obituary of hedge fund billionaire George Soros. [131] Soros donated $1.4million to publicity efforts to support California's Proposition 5 in 2008, a failed ballot measure that would have expanded drug rehabilitation programs as alternatives to prison for persons convicted of non-violent drug-related offenses. [60] He has stated that his own financial success has been attributable to the edge accorded by his understanding of the action of the reflexive effect. [70], The fund announced in 2015 that it would inject $300 million to help finance the expansion of Fen Hotels, an Argentine hotel company. [56], In 1970, Soros founded Soros Fund Management and became its chairman. Among those who held senior positions there at various times were Jim Rogers, Stanley Druckenmiller, Mark Schwartz, Keith Anderson, and Soros's two sons.[65][66][67]. [53] After graduating, he wanted to stay in the university and work as a professor but his grades were not high enough, prompting him to work for an investment firm in London. [231], Soros's older brother Paul Soros, a private investor and philanthropist, died on June 15, 2013. Although the primary manifestation of the reflexive process that Soros discusses is its effects in the financial markets, he has also explored its effects in politics. "[200], In January 2019, Soros used his annual speech at the World Economic Forum, in Davos, to label Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and President of China, as the "most dangerous opponent of open societies", saying: "China is not the only authoritarian regime in the world but it is the wealthiest, strongest and technologically most advanced". In 1997, during the Asian financial crisis, the prime minister of Malaysia, Mahathir Mohamad, accused Soros of using the wealth under his control to punish the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) for welcoming Myanmar as a member. [60] Lenders began to make more money available to more people in the 1990s to buy houses. Kaufman, Michael T., Soros: The Life and Times of a Messianic Billionaire, Chapter 8. Now 92, George Soros' net worth is still significant at an estimated $8.5 billion according to Bloomberg, which ranks him as the 227th wealthiest people in the world. (Photo: Sean Gallup/Getty Images. Soros has popularized the concepts of dynamic disequilibrium, static disequilibrium, and near-equilibrium conditions. "[137] In 1994, Soros delivered a speech in which he reported that he had offered to help his mother, a member of the right-to-die advocacy organization Hemlock Society, commit suicide. Ideas and events influence each other in reflexive feedback loops. [63][64], In 1973, the Double Eagle Fund had $12million and formed the basis of the Soros Fund. By September 16, 1992, the day of Black Wednesday, Soros's fund had sold short more than $10billion in pounds,[65] profiting from the UK government's reluctance to either raise its interest rates to levels comparable to those of other European Exchange Rate Mechanism countries or float its currency. "[203] Additionally, Soros is very critical of American companies that ignore Chinese human rights violations for business reasons, for example slamming BlackRock's decision to invest big in China as detrimental to worldwide democracy and US national security. "That's what's scary, is that it seems like he funds . [122], In January 2017, the "Stop Operation Soros" (SOS) initiative was launched in Macedonia. If there is anyone who proves the exception to Matthew 19:24that it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a . ", "George Soros attacks Hungarian prime minister for building a 'mafia state', "Macedonia to George Soros and USAID: Go Away", "Why is the State Department refusing to disclose Soros' involvement in Macedonia? Ron DeSantis over migrant flights to Martha's Vineyard, reportedly violated federal tax law. [245], Soros was the Financial Times Person of the Year for 2018, with the FT describing him as "a standard bearer for liberal democracy, an idea under siege from populists". trvny (LXXVI. with a lead stating that the Occupy Wall Street movement "may have benefited indirectly from the largesse of one of the world's richest men [Soros]." Chinese state media responded by stating "Soros' challenge to the RMB and Hong Kong dollar are doomed to fail, without any doubt. [190] Soros is opposed to Brexit and donated 400,000 to the anti-Brexit 'Best for Britain' group. He's one of the great hedge fund managers and is arguably the most successful currency speculator in history; he is a major political donor; and he has given billions to his charity, the Open. In October 2011, a Reuters story, "Soros: Not a funder of Wall Street Protests," was published after several commentators pointed out errors in an earlier Reuters story headlined "Who's Behind the Wall St. 2 | Project on Death in America", "Fatal prescription re-enactment of the Oregon Death With Dignity Act on physician-assisted suicide", "The Bombs Addressed to Obama, Clinton, and Soros, and the History of Anti-Soros Hate-Mongering", "Would-be attacker hand-delivered pipe bomb to George Soros' home mailbox: Source", "At George Soros's Home in N.Y. George and his mother also spent some time hiding with the family of Elza Brandeisz and even attended their Lutheran church with them. A mural of . [147] In August 2019, Sayoc was sentenced to 20 years in prison for mailing 16 pipe bombs to 13 victims. Soros's profit on the bet was estimated at over $1billion. By THR staff April 19, 2013 4:32am In October 2010, the. In the US, home loans were guaranteed by the Federal government. [112] Ercis Kurtulus, head of the Social Transparency Movement Association (TSHD) in Turkey, said in an interview 2006 that "Soros carried out his will in Ukraine and Georgia by using these NGOs Last year Russia passed a special law prohibiting NGOs from taking money from foreigners. As other fact checkers have noted, this is the only account of . The groups aimed to defeat President George W. Bush. [37][38] The two married in 1924. George Soros[a] HonFBA (born Gyrgy Schwartz, August 12, 1930)[1][2] is a Hungarian-American[b] businessman and philanthropist. He was also known as a powerful and influential supporter of liberal social causes. The elder Soros's . "George Soros, who died XXX at age XXX, was a predatory and hugely successful financier and investor, who argued paradoxically for years against the same sort of free-wheeling capitalism that. Further information on George Soros's philanthropy: Socit Gnrale insider trading conviction, Reflexivity, financial markets, and economic theory, View of problems in the free market system, Views on relations between Europe and Africa. Whenever you are wrong you have to fight or [take] flight. He said, 'You deliver the slips of paper and tell the people that if they report they will be deported.' George Soros is not dead. [25] The New York Times reported in October 2018 that "conspiracy theories about him have gone mainstream, to nearly every corner of the Republican Party". Soros argued that this process leads to markets having procyclical "virtuous" or "vicious" cycles of boom and bust, in contrast to the equilibrium predictions of more standard neoclassical economics.[59][60]. [135], The Project on Death in America, active from 1994 to 2003,[136] was one of the Open Society Institute's projects, which sought to "understand and transform the culture and experience of dying and bereavement. [213] He has also donated 64% of his original fortune, and distributed more than $15 billion through his Open Society Foundations (an international grantmaking network that supports advancing justice, education, public health and independent media). Although she was not Jewish, she was well-liked by Soros's parents as she had also experienced the privation and displacement brought about by World War II. George Soros launches attack on Chinese president Xi. ivot. The government has attacked OSF, the international civil support foundation created by George Soros, and tried to revoke the licence of Central European University (Budapest) (which failed mostly due to significant public outrage). [134] Soros has been a major financier of the Drug Policy Alliance an organization that promotes cannabis legalization with roughly $5million in annual contributions from one of his foundations. Anti-Semitism predates the birth of Israel. In Hungarian, soros means "next in line," or "designated successor"; in Esperanto it means "will soar". U.S. World; He studied at the London School of Economics and was awarded a BSc in philosophy in 1951, and then a Master of Science degree, also in philosophy, in 1954. Soros argues that different principles apply in markets depending on whether they are in a "near to equilibrium" or a "far from equilibrium" state. When Soros was asked in 2006 about his statement in The Age of Fallibility that "the main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States", he responded that "it happens to coincide with the prevailing opinion in the world. George Soros was born George Schwartz, a Hungarian Jew. An additional $140million was put into the fund by the state of New York from money they had received from the 2009 federal recovery act.[52]. [196] Soros has also stated that "the euro has many unresolved problems" which "must not be allowed to destroy the European Union". But the concept is also very deceptive. According to anthropologist Ivan Kalmar, "Many of his most outspoken enemies inside and outside Hungary saw him as leading an international cabal that included other Jews such as the Rothschilds, as well as Freemasons and Illuminati. Tivadar saved not only his immediate family but also many other Hungarian Jews, and Soros later wrote that 1944 had been "the happiest [year] of his life," for it had given him the opportunity to witness his father's heroism. We left most of the potential gain on the table because we were afraid that Mahathir would impose capital controls. They have two children: In 2008, Soros met Tamiko Bolton;[229] they married September 21, 2013. Lenders looked at their balance sheets which not only showed that they had made more loans, but that the collaterals backing the loans the value of the houses had gone up (because more money was chasing the same amount of housing, relatively). [217], Soros played a role in the peaceful transition from communism to democracy in Hungary (198489)[23] and provided a substantial endowment to Central European University in Budapest. ", "These 18 insanely successful people all went to LSE", "George Soros: World's Champion Bull Rider", "Philanthropy vs. It was photographed and exploded by the FBI, which launched an investigation. The obituary for a Utah murder-suicide suspect is sparking outrage online after describing the man accused of killing his mother-in-law, wife and five children as a devoted father and husband who "enjoyed making memories with the family." Michael Haight, a 42-year-old member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, is accused of . [94] In June 2015, he donated $1million to the Super PAC Priorities USA Action, which supported Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential race. The family changed its surname to Soros in 1936 because Jews were being persecuted. [182][183] Soros gave $3million to the Center for American Progress, $2.5million to MoveOn.org, and $20million[184] to America Coming Together. [26][27][28][29] Conspiracy theories targeting Soros, who is of Jewish descent, have often been described as antisemitic. He has donated much of the fortune he earned working in finance. George Soros wife age is 50 (as of 2021), and George is 91 years old as of 2021. "[141][142], A pipe bomb was placed in the mailbox at Soros's home in Katonah, New York, on October 22, 2018, as part of the October 2018 United States mail bombing attempts. ", "How Do You Say 'Billionaire' in Esperanto? [107], Since the fall of the Soviet Union, Soros's funding has played an important role in the newly independent countries. I was told to go to the Jewish Council. [155], Soros argues that the current system of financial speculation undermines healthy economic development in many underdeveloped countries. "[161] According to hacked emails released in 2016, Soros's Open Society Foundation has a self-described objective of "challenging Israel's racist and anti-democratic policies" in international forums, in part by questioning Israel's reputation as a democracy. "[45][46], Soros did not return to that job; his family survived the war by purchasing documents to say that they were Christians. Double Eagle was renamed to Quantum Fund and was the principal firm Soros advised. [61] It was based in Curaao, Dutch Antilles. In 1988, Soros was contacted by a French financier named Georges Pbereau, who asked him to participate in an effort to assemble a group of investors to purchase a large number of shares in Socit Gnrale, a leading French bank that was part of a privatization program (something instituted by the new government under Jacques Chirac). Vilified by some, praised by others, the Hungarian-born investor and his Open Society Foundations (OSF)he's donated $32 billion since 1979works to support liberal democratic intuitions in 37 countries around the world. Protests?" Joe Rogan blasted George Soros on a recent episode of his podcast. [4][34], In a discussion at the Los Angeles World Affairs Council in 2006, Alvin Shuster, former foreign editor of the Los Angeles Times, asked Soros, "How does one go from an immigrant to a financier? [84] In October 2011, the court rejected his appeal in a 43 decision, saying that Soros had been aware of the risk of breaking insider trading laws. George Soros se narodil jako Gyrgy Schwartz v rodin budapeskho prvnka a esperantisty Tivadara Sorose (tehdy jet pod jmnem Theodor Schwarz) a jeho eny Erzsbet (pozdji Elizabeth).. Z rodnho Maarska odeel po vlce v roce 1946.Od roku 1947 il v Anglii, kde studoval ekonomii a filozofii na London School of Economics, kde ho vznamn ovlivnil Karl R . "[188], In 2017, Soros described Donald Trump as a con man, and predicted Trump would fail because he believed Trump's ideas were self-contradictory. His 2003 book, The Bubble of American Supremacy[187], was a forthright critique of the Bush administration's "War on Terror" as misconceived and counterproductive, and a polemic against the re-election of Bush. "[114], In June 2009, Soros donated $100million to Central Europe and Eastern Europe to counter the impact of the economic crisis on the poor, voluntary groups and non-government organisations. Jewish philanthropist Michael Steinhardt, who arranged for Soros's appearance at the conference, clarified that "George Soros does not think Jews should be hated any more than they deserve to be. "[198] In July 2015, Soros stated that a "strategic partnership between the US and China could prevent the evolution of two power blocks that may be drawn into military conflict". "[108] His funding of pro-democratic programs in Georgia was considered by Georgian nationalists to be crucial to the success of the Rose Revolution, although Soros has said that his role has been "greatly exaggerated. The Hungarian government spent millions of dollars on a poster campaign demonizing Soros. [100] Soros gave $2 million to a PAC supporting Kim Foxx's campaign for Cook County State's Attorney in 2020. George Soros is not the devilish puppet master of right-wing caricature. effort to decriminalize pot, "Wealthy Californians put their agendas to a vote", "George Soros gives $1million to Prop. And the foundation has been functioning ever since and played an important part in events now. George Soros This article is more than 9 years old Red-faced Reuters prematurely publishes George Soros obituary News agency declares billionaire financier dead in less-than-flattering. As a prominent political activist and supporter of left-wing causes, Hungarian-born billionaire financier George Soros has frequently been the target of smear campaigns, and none more odious. He worked as a clerk and later moved to the arbitrage department. Since its inception in 1973, the fund has generated $40billion. Youtube/@PowerfulJRE. [189] Soros also said he believed Trump was preparing for a trade war and expected financial markets to do poorly.[190]. This was further amplified by public policy. [58] Reflexivity posits that market values are often driven by the fallible ideas of participants, not only by the economic fundamentals of the situation. Soros, citing accusations that he was one of the "Jewish financiers" who, in antisemitic terms, "ruled the world by proxy", suggested that, if the direction of those policies were changed, then anti-Semitism would diminish. George Soros has made a number of impressive investments and trades over the years. [238] In 2008, Soros's name was associated with AS Roma, an Italian association football team, but the club was not sold. Soros called the fines part of a campaign to "destroy independent society. Soros has been married three times and divorced twice. It renders an important service by exposing to the world [in English] what Prime Minister Viktor Orbn is telling his own people [in Hungarian]. According to National Review Online[216] the Open Society Institute gave $20,000 in September 2002 to the Defense Committee of Lynne Stewart, the lawyer who has defended controversial, poor, and often unpopular defendants in court and was sentenced to 2.mw-parser-output .sfrac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .sfrac.tion,.mw-parser-output .sfrac .tion{display:inline-block;vertical-align:-0.5em;font-size:85%;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .sfrac .num,.mw-parser-output .sfrac .den{display:block;line-height:1em;margin:0 0.1em}.mw-parser-output .sfrac .den{border-top:1px solid}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px}1/3 years in prison for "providing material support for a terrorist conspiracy" via a press conference for a client.

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