George Soros | Wikipedia audio article
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00:02:45 1 Early life and education
00:06:06 2 Investment career
00:06:16 2.1 Early business experience
00:07:02 2.2 Singer and Friedlander
00:07:22 2.3 F. M. Mayer
00:07:50 2.4 Wertheim and Co
00:08:44 2.5 Arnhold and S. Bleichroeder
00:10:07 2.6 Soros Fund Management
00:12:13 2.6.1 1992-pound short
00:17:15 2.6.2 Société Générale insider trade
00:19:19 3 Personal life
00:23:34 4 Political involvement
00:26:20 4.1 Central and Eastern Europe
00:32:07 4.2 Africa
00:32:38 4.3 Support of separatist movements
00:33:13 4.4 Drug policy reform
00:34:43 4.5 Death and dying
00:35:24 5 Conspiracy theories and threats
00:39:26 6 Attempted assassination
00:40:12 7 Political and economic views
00:40:22 7.1 Reflexivity, financial markets, and economic theory
00:43:36 7.2 Reflexivity in politics
00:44:28 7.3 View of problems in the free market system
00:44:53 7.3.1 Market predictions
00:46:52 7.4 Views on antisemitism and Israel
00:51:58 7.5 Views on the U.S.
00:54:28 7.6 Views on Europe
00:56:38 7.7 Views on relations between Europe and Africa
00:57:04 7.8 Views on China
00:59:00 7.9 Views on Russia and Ukraine
01:01:06 8 Wealth and philanthropy
01:05:20 9 Honours and awards
01:07:25 10 Publications and scholarship
01:07:44 10.1 Books authored or co-authored
01:11:25 10.2 Journalism
01:13:11 11 See also
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George Soros, Hon (born Schwartz György; August 12, 1930) is a Hungarian-American investor and philanthropist. As of February 2018, he had a net worth of $8 billion, having donated more than $32 billion to his philanthropic agency, Open Society Foundations.Born in Budapest, Soros survived Nazi Germany-occupied Hungary and emigrated to the United Kingdom in 1947. He attended the London School of Economics, graduating with a bachelor's and eventually a master's degree in philosophy. Soros began his business career by taking various jobs at merchant banks in the United Kingdom and then the United States, before starting his first hedge fund, Double Eagle, in 1969. Profits from his first fund furnished the seed money to start Soros Fund Management, his second hedge fund, in 1970. Double Eagle was renamed to Quantum Fund and was the principal firm Soros advised. At its founding, Quantum Fund had $12 million in assets under management, and as of 2011 it had $25 billion, the majority of Soros's overall net worth.Soros is known as The Man Who Broke the Bank of England because of his short sale of US$10 billion worth of pounds sterling, which made him a profit of $1 billion during the 1992 Black Wednesday UK currency crisis. Based on his early studies of philosophy, Soros formulated an application of Karl Popper's General Theory of Reflexivity to capital markets, which he claims renders him a clear picture of asset bubbles and fundamental/market value of securities, as well as value discrepancies used for shorting and swapping stocks.Soros is a well-known supporter of progressive and liberal political causes, to which he dispenses donations through his foundation, the Open Society Foundations. Between 1979 and 2011, he donated more than $11 billion to various philanthropic causes; by 2017, his donations on civil initiatives to reduce poverty and increase transparency, and on scholarships and universities around the world totaled $12 billion. He influenced the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and provided one of Europe's largest higher education endowments to the Central European University in his Hungarian hometown. His extensive funding of political causes has made him a bugaboo of European nationalists. Numerous American conservatives have promoted false claims that characterize Soros as a singularly dangerous puppetmaster behind a variety o ...