George Soros

New chapter by Soros on the secrets to his success along with a new Preface and Introduction. New Foreword by renowned economist Paul Volcker "An extraordinary . . . inside look into the decision-making process of the most successful money manager of our time. Fantastic."― The Wall Street Journal George Soros is unquestionably one of the most powerful and profitable investors in the world today. Dubbed by BusinessWeek as "the Man who Moves Markets," Soros made a fortune competing with the British pound and remains active today in the global financial community. Now, in this special edition of the classic investment book, The Alchemy of Finance, Soros presents a theoretical and practical account of current financial trends and a new paradigm by which to understand the financial market today. This edition's expanded and revised Introduction details Soros's innovative investment practices along with his views of the world and world order. He also describes a new paradigm for the "theory of reflexivity" which underlies his unique investment strategies. Filled with expert advice and valuable business lessons, The Alchemy of Finance reveals the timeless principles of an investing legend. This special edition will feature a new chapter by Soros on the secrets of his success and a new Foreword by the Honorable Paul Volcker, former Chairman of the Federal Reserve. George Soros (New York, NY) is President of Soros Fund Management and Chief Investment Advisor to Quantum Fund N.V., a $12 billion international investment fund. Besides his numerous ventures in finance, Soros is also extremely active in the worlds of education, culture, and economic aid and development through his Open Society Fund and the Soros Foundation.

In the midst of the most serious financial upheaval since the Great Depression, legendary financier George Soros explores the origins of the crisis and its implications for the future. Soros, whose breadth of experience in financial markets is unrivaled, places the current crisis in the context of decades of study of how individuals and institutions handle the boom and bust cycles that now dominate global economic activity. “This is the worst financial crisis since the 1930s,” writes Soros in characterizing the scale of financial distress spreading across Wall Street and other financial centers around the world. In a concise essay that combines practical insight with philosophical depth, Soros makes an invaluable contribution to our understanding of the great credit crisis and its implications for our nation and the world.

George Soros Ends the Speculation"The outcome [of this book] is a summing up of my life's work. . . As I finish the book, I feel I have succeeded."-George Soros from the PrefaceCritical praise for Soros on Soros"If you have ever wanted to sit down for a candid conversation with a phenomenal financial success, George Soros's book provides the opportunity. You will meet a complex man and a first-rate mind."-Henry A. Kissinger"The best expert on Soros is undoubtedly George Soros! After all, who is better equipped to tell us what he really thinks and how he thinks, a matter of some importance given the fact that he has translated a remarkable personal financial success into a truly generous and historically significant effort to promote postcommunist democracy." -Zbigniew Brzezinski"The best X-ray of the mind of the master yet." -Barton M. Biggs"George Soros brings a lot more to the world of finance than the intuition and nerve of a born trader-and in Soros on Soros he's no longer bashful about telling us about it. A philosopher at heart, George attributes his success at investing to a theory of the interaction of reality and human perception. What really drives the man now, with a personal fortune beyond all personal need, is a different kind of strategic investing-investment to build in Eastern Europe the kind of open societies he came to value in his own life." -Paul A. VolckerFinancial guru George Soros is one of the most colorful and intriguing figures in the financial world today. Now in Soros on Soros, readers are given their most intimate and revealing look yet into the life and mind of the one BusinessWeek dubbed, "The Man Who Moves Markets."Soros on Soros interweaves financial theory and personal reminiscence, political analysis and moral reflection to offer a compelling portrait of the world (and its markets) according to Soros. In an interview-style narrative with Byron Wien, Managing Director at Morgan Stanley, and with German journalist Krisztina Koenen, Soros vividly describes the genesis of his brilliant financial career and shares his views on investing and global finance, politics and the emerging world order, and the responsibility of power.Speaking with remarkable candor, he traces his progress from Holocaust survivor to philosophy student, unsuccessful tobacco salesman to the world's most powerful and profitable trader and introduces us to the people and events that helped shape his character and his often controversial views.In describing the investment theories and financial strategies that have made him "a superstar among money managers" (The New York Times), Soros tells the fascinating story of the phenomenally successful Soros Fund Management and its $12 billion flagship, Quantum Fund. He also offers fresh insights into some of his most sensational wins and losses, including a firsthand account of the $1 billion he made going up against the British pound and the fortune he lost speculating on the yen. Plus: Soros's take on the devaluation of the peso and currency fluctuations internationally.He tells of the personal and professional crises that more than once threatened to destroy him and of the personal resources he drew upon to turn defeat into resounding victory. And he explains his motivations for establishing the Soros Foundation and the Open Society Institute through which he worked to build open societies in postcommunist countries in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.Finally, turning his attention to international politics, Soros offers keen insights into the current state of affairs in Russia and the former communist bloc countries and analyzes the reasons behind and likely consequences of the West's failure to properly integrate them into the free world. He also explores the crisis of the ERM and analyzes the pros and cons of investing in a number of emerging markets.Find out what makes one of the greatest financial wizards of this or any age tick. Soros on Soros is a must read for anyone interested in world finance and international policy.

Five lectures George Soros recently delivered at the Central European University in Budapest - which he founded in 1991 - distill a lifetime of thinking on finance, capitalism and open society In a series of lectures delivered at the Central European University in October 2009, George Soros provided a broad overview of his thoughts on economics and politics. The lectures are the culmination of a lifetime of practical and philosophical reflection. In the first and second lecture, Soros discusses his general theory of reflexivity and its application to financial markets, providing insight into the recent financial crisis. The third and fourth lectures examine the concept of open society, which has guided Soros' global philanthropy, as well as the potential for conflict between capitalism and open society. The closing lecture focuses on the way ahead, closely examining the increasingly important economic and political role that China will play in the future. "The Budapest Lectures" presents these five seminal talks into one volume, which offers a condensed and highly readable summary of Soros' world view.

An impassioned defense of open society, academic and media freedom, and human rights.George Soros -- universally known for his philanthropy, progressive politics, and investment success--has been under sustained attack from the far right, nationalists, and anti-Semites in the United States and around the world because of his commitment to open society and liberal democracy.In this brilliant and spirited book, Soros brings together a vital collection of his writings, some never previously published. They deal with a wide range of important and timely the dangers that the instruments of control produced by artificial intelligence and machine learning pose to open societies; what Soros calls his "political philanthropy"; his founding of the Central European University, one of the world's foremost defender of academic freedom; his philosophy; his boom/bust theory of financial markets and its policy implications; and what he calls the tragedy of the European Union. Soros's forceful affirmation of freedom, democracy, the rule of law, human rights, social justice, and social responsibility as a universal idea is a clarion call-to-arms for the ideals of open society.

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Never before have we stood to gain or lose as much from understanding the international economy. Scandals plague the world's largest corporations, the American trade deficit has soared to historic heights, and international organizations from the World Bank to the WTO are accused of being inefficient and corrupt. Is our global economy as unhealthy, and as unjust, as we think? And what can be done about it?At this critical juncture, George Soros, a major proponent of globalization, takes to task the many institutions that have failed to keep pace with our global economy. At the same time, he offers a compelling new paradigm to bring the institutions and the economy back into necessary alignment. Economics are amoral, he argues -- but neither our society nor our economy can afford to function without a distinct system of right and wrong. As we look toward the future and wonder what's ailing our economy, where our jobs are going, and whether the power of economics can be harnessed for positive changes, this thoroughly updated edition of George Soros on Globalization is a report no citizen of the world can do without.

The global economy, on which the world now depends more than ever, is in crisis. The Russian economy has collapsed, leading to punishing inflation and economic hardship. Scores of Japanese banks are in ruin while the Japanese government muddles along, the nation falling deeper and deeper into recession. The once-booming economies of Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia have imploded. Brazil and the rest of Latin America has begun to edge toward the precipice, and even in Europe and America the markets lurch violently, wiping out gains with each passing week.No one is better positioned to explain the current global financial crisis than George Soros, the man Morgan Stanley head Barton Biggs calls "the finest analyst of the world in our time." In The Crisis of Global Capitalism, Soros, chairman of Soros Fund Management (whose Quantum Fund is considered to have been the best performing investment fund in the world over the past thirty years), dissects the current crisis and economic theory in general, revealing how theoretical assumptions have combined with human behavior to lead to today's mess. He shows how unquestioning faith in market forces blinds us to crucial instabilities, and how those instabilities have chain-reacted to cause the current crisis—a crisis that has the potential to get much, much worse. Offering brilliant solutions to the global meltdown, based on years of Soros's own experience as a financier and philanthropist, this is essential reading for anyone involved with the new economy—that is, all of us.

The European Union could soon be a thing of the past. Xenophobia is rampant and commonly reflected in elections across the continent. Great Britain may hold a referendum on whether to abandon the union altogether. Spurred by anti-EU sentiments due to the euro crisis, national interests conflict with a shared vision for the future of Europe. Is it too late to preserve the union that generated unprecedented peace for more than half a century?This is no mere academic question with limited importance for America and the rest of the world. In the past decade, the EU has declined from a unified global power to a fractious confederation of states with staggering unemployment resentfully seeking relief from a reluctant Germany. If the EU collapses and the former member states are transformed again from partners into rivals, the US and the world will confront the serious economic and political consequences that follow.In a series of revealing interviews conducted by Dr. Gregor Peter Schmitz, George Soros -- a man of vast European experience whose personal past informs his present concerns -- offers trenchant commentary and concise, prescriptive The euro crisis was not an inevitable consequence of integration, but a result of avoidable mistakes in politics, economics, and finance; and excessive faith in the self-regulating financial markets that Soros calls market fundamentalism inspired flawed institutional structures that call out for reform. Despite the considerable perils of this period, George Soros maintains his faith in the European Union as a model of open society. This book is a testament to his vision for a peaceful and productive Europe.

After reflecting on his support of a losing Democrat for president, George Soros steps back to revisit his views on why George Bush's policies around the world fall short in the arenas most important to democracy, human rights and open society. As a survivor of the Holocaust and a life-long proponent of free expression, Soros understands the meaning of freedom. And yet his differences with George Bush, another proponent of freedom, are profound. In this powerful essay Soros spells out his views and how they differ from the president's. He reflects on why the Democrats may have lost the high ground on these values issues and how they might reclaim it. As he has in his recent books, On Globalization and The Bubble of American Supremacy , Soros uses facts, anecdotes, personal experience and philosophy to illuminate a major topic in a way that both enlightens and inspires.

The dire economic situation we find ourselves in is not a result of economic forces alone, but of the policies pursued, and not pursued, by world leaders. In this collection of his recent writings on the global financial situation, George Soros presents his views and analysis of key economic policy choices leading up to, during, and following the financial crisis of 2008-2009.Soros explores domestic and international policy choices like how to manage the (then) potential implosion of Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac, deploying measures to stem global contagion from the sub-prime crisis, alternative options on bailing out lesser developed countries and why this was vital, the structural problems of European economic management, and more.Financial Turmoil in Europe and the United States elegantly distills the choices at hand, and takes the reader on a journey of real time economic policy work and experimentation.

George Soros's The Crisis of Global Capitalism became an international bestseller and an instant classic; a must read for anyone concerned with the complex market forces that rule our global economy and create both prosperity and instability. Now, in Open Society , Soros takes a new and provocative look at the arguments he made in that book, incorporating the latest global economic and political developments into his analysis. He shows how our economic and political arrangements are out of sync. Recognizing that our existing institutions are under the sway of sovereign states, he proposes an "open society alliance" with the dual purpose of fostering open societies in individual countries and laying the groundwork for a global open society. In leading up to his inspiring vision, Soros presents an iconoclastic view of the world that has guided him both in making money and spending it on his network of Open Society Foundations. This book sums up the life's work of an exceptional individual. George Soros is the best fund manager in history, a stateless statesman, and an original thinker.

In the midst of one of the most serious financial upheavals since the Great Depression, George Soros, the legendary financier and philanthropist, has written a significant update to his NYT bestseller, THE NEW PARADIGM FOR FINANCIAL MARKETS. In these four new chapters, he looks at the depth and breadth of the credit crash and proposes an updated set of policies to confront the global financial crisis.

George Soros has done more for open societies than any other private citizen in the world. In Underwriting Democracy he describes his experiences helping to bring about democratic change in Eastern Europe -- experiences that are especially relevant now that our country has begun to intervene (though in an entirely different way than Soros) to create functioning democracies. Throughout the 1980s George Soros worked to identify and fund the growing political movements that caused the downfall of Eastern Europe's Communist governments. He established foundations, first in his native Hungary, and then in eight other countries, and used them to finance everything from the installation of previously forbidden copying machines in public libraries to the creation of experimental schools, clubs, and workshops for the support of dissidents. This unprecedented, and brilliant, financial and logistical support helped to bring down the communist regimes in peaceful revolutions across the continent. These are thrilling stories about facing down -- and getting past -- the Communist party powers in order to change these nations from the inside out .

George Soros is one of the world's leading philanthropists. Over the past 30 years, he has provided more than 7 billion to his network of foundations, known collectively as the Open Society Institute, for projects around the world and in the United States.In this e-book, Soros writes in detail for the first time about his vision for philanthropy. -I have always been leery of philanthropy, - he writes, -Philanthropy is supposed to be devoted to the benefit of others, but many philanthropists are primarily concerned with their own benefit.- Soros engages in philanthropy not out of a desire for praise or to impose his vision upon the world but out of a strong sense of moral -My success in the financial markets has given me a greater degree of independence than most other people enjoy. This allows me to take a stand on controversial issues. In fact, my exceptional position obliges me to do so.-Soros is celebrated for his brilliant financial and economic insights and his investment strategies. But his contribution to philanthropy and the impact of his generosity is equally impressive. This text reveals the thinking and practice that drives a lesser known aspect of this remarkable man's life, his goals for society and his philosophy.

George Soros is both a participant in and an observer of the revolution whichcontinues to sweep through the former Soviet empire. In this book he tells thestory of his involvement, which has grown in line with events.He presents a theoretical framework which recognizes that participants in historyact on the basis of imperfect understanding. He connects the traditional mode of thinking with organic society, the critical mode with open society, and thedogmatic with closed society.

Soros is the founder of Soros Fund Management. In 1970 he co-founded the Quantum Fund with Jim Rogers. It returned 3,365% during the next ten years (42.6% per year for 10 years), and created the bulk of the Soros fortune.On Black Wednesday (September 16, 1992), Soros became immediately famous when he sold short more than $10 billion worth of pounds, profiting from the Bank of England's reluctance to either raise its interest rates to levels comparable to those of other European Exchange Rate Mechanism countries or to float its currency.Finally, the Bank of England was forced to withdraw the currency out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism and to devalue the pound sterling, and Soros earned an estimated US$ 1.1 billion in the process. He was dubbed "the man who broke the Bank of England."This ebook contains the greatest quotes of George Soros.

Pourfendeur des théories ultralibérales, George Soros a montré sa clairvoyance en prédisant l'ampleur qu'allait prendre la crise des subprimes dès ses prémices. À rebours de la vulgate économique, il tire aujourd'hui les enseignements de la crise dans ce recueil de cinq conférences lumineuses. Fort de l'expérience et des réflexions de toute une vie, il y expose en détail le cadre conceptuel qui le guide dans ses activités tant financières que philanthropiques, et l'applique à la crise actuelle des marchés financiers. Une situation qui, d'après lui, appelle un renforcement de la régulation de l'économie, indissociable d'une restauration du politique. Critique aussi bien envers le laxisme de l'administration Bush qu'envers une administration Obama trop confiante dans sa force de persuasion, clairvoyant quant aux perspectives qui s'offrent à la Chine, George Soros se tient ici à l'écart de toute démagogie et donne à voir une pensée d'une grande clarté. "Mon but est ambitieux. Je souhaite contribuer à une meilleure compréhension de l'humain. Le lecteur jugera si j'y ai réussi. J'espère en tout cas que mes idées seront accueillies dans le même esprit que celui dans lequel elles sont proposées : celui d'une pensée critique et non dogmatique."

大物投資家ソロス氏のかけ声のもと、要人たちが世界シナリオを語る。インド準銀のラジャン総裁の不満に答えるIMFのラガルド専務理事。フクヤマ氏のいう「成長戦略の競争」に自信満々たる中国勢。アジアインフラ投資銀行の金立群総裁が笑い、スティグリッツ教授が嘆き、ユンケル欧州委員会委員長が叫び、テロはCIAの謀略ではないとブレア元英国首相が力説する。興隆アジアを反映し、9名のアジア人が参加。未来を形づくるアイデアを詰めこんだ、国際言論機関プロジェクトシンジケートの最強オピニオン集。

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Critical Praise . . . "The Alchemy joins Reminiscences of a Stock Operator as a timeless instructional guide of the marketplace." - Paul Tudor Jones from the Foreword "An extraordinary . . . inside look into the decision-making process of the most successful money manager of our time. Fantastic."- The Wall Street Journal "A breathtakingly brilliant book. Soros is one of the core of masters . . . who can actually begin to digest the astonishing complexity . . . of the game of finance in recent years."- Esquire "A seminal investment book . . . it should be read, underlined, and thought about page-by-page, concept-by-idea. . . . He's the best pure investor ever . . . probably the finest analyst of the world in our time." - Barton M. Biggs, Morgan Stanley George Soros is unquestionably the most powerful and profitable investor in the world today. Dubbed by BusinessWeek as "The Man Who Moves Markets," Soros has made a billion dollars going up against the British pound. Soros is not merely a man of finance, but a thinker to reckon with as well. Now, in The Alchemy of Finance, this extraordinary man reveals the investment strategies that have made him "a superstar among money managers" (The New York Times).

Billionaire speculator-philanthropist George Soros has made a fortune in the world's financial markets, and he would like to continue to do so; but he sees growing evidence that forces unleashed by the global market economy are destroying the very values on which open markets depend. Worse, our unquestioning faith in market forces blinds us to serious instabilities in the interconnected global economy that will inevitably chain-react into a full-blown global meltdown if left uncorrected. In The Trouble with Capitalism, Soros outlines the dangers, explains the widespread misconceptions from which they spring, and proposes real-world solutions tested on the ground in the over forty countries worldwide in which his $350 million-plus-a-year Open Society Institute has foundations. The Trouble with Capitalism is informed by a lifetime of work in support of the society we need to preserve the open markets we cherish.Alarming, contrarian, and intensely controversial, The Trouble with Capitalism flies in the face of much conventional economic wisdom. Like a farseeing lookout crying Iceberg! on a speeding ship filled with oblivious revelers, his is a voice we ignore at our grave peril.

I Finanskrisen 2008-2009 viser George Soros klart og enkelt:* Hvorfor vi står midt i den værste økonomiske krise siden 1930'erne* Hvorfor denne krise er anderledes end tidligere kriser* Hvordan en ustyrlig vækst uden dækning i "virkeligheden" har krakket finansmarkederne* Hvordan nye spilleregler skal tæmme finansmarkederne og skabe en ny ordenDen danske økonomi-professor Jakob Brøchner Madsen betegner i sit forord George Soros' nye bog Finanskrisen 2008-2009 - Nye værdier og spilleregler på finansmarkederne som ´en gyser´. Han fortsætter: »Soros bog er den første bog, som sætter krisen i perspektiv, giver baggrunden for udviklingen og viser, at de financielle markeder danner nervebanerne i de kapitalistiske økonomier.«George Soros er børshajen og finansgeniet, der skabte sin milliardformue ved at kende og udnytte svaghederne i finansmarkederne. Med Finanskrisen 2008-2009 har Soros skrevet den helt rigtige bog på det rigtige tidspunkt.

"E könyvemben az egész világra kiterjedő nyílt társadalom alapjait kíséreltem meg lefektetni. Globális gazdaságban élünk, miközben globális társadalmunk politikai szervezettsége siralmas. Nem tudjuk megőrizni a békét, és kénytelenek vagyunk a pénzpiacok túlkapásait ellensúlyozni. E kettő nélkül pedig a globális gazdaság szükségképpen összeomlik…Könyvem megírásának eredeti célja életfilozófiám ismertetése volt. Sikeres üzletemberként kerültem a köztudatba, később jótékonyságaim tettek híressé. Néha már úgy éreztem magam, mint egy hatalmas emésztőcsatorna: az egyik oldalon befelé áramlott a pénz, a másikon kifelé, holott a két fázis között bonyolult gondolati folyamatok zajlottak le." – írja legújabb könyvében Soros György.

Деятельность Джорджа Сороса, американского финансиста, одного из богатейших людей планеты, вызывает неоднозначную оценку в разных странах и различных кругах общества. Он сыграл важную роль в падении коммунистических режимов в Восточной Европе в ходе "бархатных" революций 1989 года; в России в 1990-е годы Сорос во многом определял ход реформ. Влияние Сороса в мире очень велико и теперь. В книге, представленной вашему вниманию, Джордж Сорос пишет о кризисе, который переживает Россия. Сорос утверждает, что санкции против России в совокупности с падением цен на нефть нанесли громадный ущерб российской экономике, но это еще не предел. "Будет неудивительно, если этот кризис приведет к дефолту в России", - предрекает он. Комментарии дает В.Ю.Катасонов, профессор МГИМО, доктор экономических наук, известный писатель и публицист.