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  George Soros - Wikipedia
Soros verkündete seine Absicht, in großen Mengen Wertpapiere der Bundesrepublik Deutschland zugunsten französischer Wertpapiere abzustoßen.
Mit seiner Förderung der Idee der "offenen Gesellschaft" nimmt Soros Bezug zu einem Konzept von Karl Popper.
Soros unterstützte und unterstützt laut einem Bericht von Telepolis in den vergangenen Jahren durch die "offene Gesellschaft" verschiedene oppositionelle Gruppen in Südosteuropa und ehemaligen GUS-Republiken finanziell.
de.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_Soros   (731 words)

  
 George Soros - Biografie WHO'S WHO.
Heute ist Soros einer der reichsten Menschen der Welt und sein persönlicher Einsatz gilt seinen internationalen Stiftungen und sozialen Einrichtungen...
Soros verdiente in einer Nacht über 1,4 Milliarden US-Dollar.
Soros investierte in Mexiko-City 1,3 Milliarden US-Dollar in den Bau eines gigantischen Geschäfts- und Wohnkomplexes.
www.rasscass.com /templ/te_bio.php?PID=180&RID=1   (516 words)

  
 George Soros Biography
George Soros was born in Budapest, Hungary on August 12, 1930.
In 1947 Soros fled the Soviet Union Communist occupation of Hungary and arrived in England.
Soros commented that "it is the central focus of my life" and "it is a matter of life and death".
www.woopidoo.com /biography/george-soros/index.htm   (622 words)

  
 Billionaire Soros blasts Bush, calls on President to honor world opinion
Soros added that he felt O'Neill, whose blunt and open style sometimes grated other members of the administration, was a breath of fresh air.
Soros made his billions by betting on swings in the British pound and other currencies, a single-minded strategy some countries claimed complicated their financial problems.
Soros compared the failure of Bush policies with his success at investing, saying he had made bad investment decisions but had been willing to admit he was wrong and acted to correct his mistakes.
www.post-gazette.com /businessnews/20030228sorosbp4.asp   (578 words)

  
 Soros article "The Capitalist Threa
Soros wrote in a 7,000 word article as short on mea culpas as it is long on dire predictions.
Soros said that his love of open societies stemmed in part from his experience of totalitarian rule by both Nazis qnd Communists in Hungary of his youth.
Soros most is that today's markets idolatry threatens to depart from the realm of the merely distatesful into that of the downright dangerous in several areas.
www.ibiblio.org /obl/reg.burma/archives/199701/msg00103.html   (955 words)

  
 George Soros on Capitalism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Soros told a Washington audience that the global financial system is broken and requires urgent repair.
Soros says by imposing high interest rates on distressed countries, the IMF is not helping resolve the current crisis.
Soros believes unless global capitalism is reformed, inequities will give rise to a new wave of nationalism which would be destructive to global integration and cooperation.
www.cyberhaven.com /globalinvesting/soroscapitalism.html   (277 words)

  
 Soros Slams Bush, NeoCon Policies
In a speech to the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Soros said his criticism of Bush was not prompted by party politics or personal animosity.
Soros has pledged more than $US10 million ($12.8 million) to left-leaning Democratic groups trying to mobilise US voters for the November elections.
Soros' speech was timed to promote his latest book, The Bubble of American Supremacy: Correcting the Misuse of American Supremacy.
www.rense.com /general47/neocc.htm   (421 words)

  
 Radio Islam: George Soros - wolf in sheeps clothing
The financial desolation that Soros leaves in the wake of his deceitful transactions is the proof.
Goerge Soros backed the opposition of Republican George W. Bush, so that if the Jew supported stooge George W. Bush was defeated in the 2004 US presidential election by a "Democrat", he too would be stooge and lackey of Zionism.
Soros took aside Steve Rosenthal and Ellen Malcolm, the CEO and president of America Coming Together (ACT), who were proposing to mobilise voters in 17 battleground states.
www.radioislam.org /islam/english/jewishp/finance/sorostactics.htm   (496 words)

  
 Profile: George Soros
Soros has gone so far as to quip that he would be willing to spend his entire fortune, of somebody could ‘guarantee' an election-day victory over Bush.
In fact, Soros has contributed less than one percent of the $7 billion he is estimated to be worth.
Soros has not been shy about explaining his decision to invest so heavily in groups dedicated to defeating Bush.
www.motherjones.com /news/special_reports/2004/04/soros.html   (467 words)

  
 SOROS INTERFERING
The letter from Soros is the latest in high-profile appeals that Ukraine clean up its act with respect to democracy, the rule of law and press freedom.
Soros also pointed out in the letter that he had been deeply involved in Ukraine by trying to help it make the transition from a closed to an open society by creating the Ukrainian Renaissance Foundation and giving Ukraine more than $100 million in support.
Soros said he was "taken aback by the president's scathing, virulent remarks about Viktor Yushchenko, Ukraine's prime minister, and Yulia Tymoshenko, the former deputy prime minister." : "And later I found myself in the uncomfortable position of urging Mr.
www.brama.com /survey/messages/7549.html   (996 words)

  
 openDemocracy Author -George Soros   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
George Soros is chairman and founder of Soros Fund Management and of the Open Society Institute and Soros foundations network, whose philanthropic organisations are active in more than 50 countries, building and supporting institutions for an open society.
George Soros is also a former member of the Board of Directors of the Council on Foreign Relations and a founding member of The Phoenix Group, an organisation which supports the creation of left-leaning think tanks.
Soros’ first philanthropic efforts were in 1979, when he aided fl students attending the University of Cape Town in apartheid South Africa; he has subsequently contributed to countless projects, including Georgia’s Rose Revolution and the campaign to defeat George W. Bush in America’s 2004 election.
www.opendemocracy.net /author/George_Soros.jsp   (192 words)

  
 Soros Cutbacks - Johnson's Russia List 6-9-03
MOSCOW (AP)--U.S. billionaire financier and philanthropist George Soros said Monday he was reducing his activities in Russia because it was up to the state to work in the areas his foundation has previously supported.
Soros said he would reduce his investments in Russian projects from $25 million each year to $10 million beginning in 2004.
Russia was Soros' last stop on a tour of his foundation's offices in 10 countries spread across the Balkans, Caucasus, and Central Asia.
www.cdi.org /russia/johnson/7215-2.cfm   (275 words)

  
 George-Soros.com
George Soros was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1930.
He is currently the president and chairman of Soros Fund Management LLC, a private investment management firm that serves as principal advisor to the Quantum Group of Funds, a series of international investment vehicles.
Soros has received honorary degrees from the New School for Social Research in New York City, the University of Oxford, the Budapest University of Economics, and Yale University.
www.george-soros.com   (417 words)

  
 Capital Research Center: George Soros: A Bridge to Radicalism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
George Soros, the international financier, is at present caught up in an insider-trading scandal in France.
Soros, a currency speculator whose net worth is estimated to be more than $1 billion, is called the man who could “bring more change to [America’s] justice system and the [American] legal profession than anyone since Washington, Franklin, Jefferson and other Founding Fathers got together to write the Constitution.”
Soros survived World War II and briefly studied in London, where he became acquainted with Sir Karl Popper (1902-1994), the man he now regards as his intellectual mentor.
www.green-watch.com /news/news.asp?ID=83   (367 words)

  
 French Court Upholds Soros' Conviction
Soros' lawyer said he cooperated with the case from the beginning.
Soros, who emigrated to the United States in 1956 and set up Soros Fund Management 17 years later, has billions of dollars under management in his Quantum Fund.
Soros' spokesman, Michael Vachon, called the decision "an absurd miscarriage of justice" and said Soros was confident he would be cleared by the European court.
www.wtop.com /?nid=383&sid=821023   (878 words)

  
 OSF: George Soros
George Soros, americký finančník a filantrop, zakladatel Open Society Institute New York a Budapešť a mezinárodní sítě nadací Open Society Fund, se narodil v Budapešti v roce 1930.
První nadaci ve střední Evropě George Soros založil v Budapešti roku 1984, v roce 1987 následovala nadace v Moskvě.
George Soros publikoval množství článků o politických a sociálních změnách ve střední a východní Evropě a bývalém Sovětském svazu a je také autorem řady knih.
www.osf.cz /cz/o-nadaci/soros   (406 words)

  
 George Soros on the World Economy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Soros says a global credit crunch may be in the making with economic activity slowing in most parts of the world.
Soros says it is essential that Congress approve new U.S. contributions for the IMF, which he believes overall does more good than harm.
Soros, whose investment fund is reported to have lost two billion dollars in Russia this year, favors more regulation of the world financial system.
www.cyberhaven.com /globalinvesting/georgesoros.html   (352 words)

  
 Soros dives into midterms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Soros gathered about 60 of his friends and acquaintances in his Upper East Side home Thursday to hear a presentation from Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, according to a knowledgeable source.
Soros is known for making provocative statements and is often associated with hot-button issues that most politicians would rather avoid, such as drug decriminalization, assisted suicide and voting rights for felons.
Soros is also a member of the Democracy Alliance, a new partnership among more than 80 wealthy liberals who have pledged to fund a network of progressive think tanks and advocacy groups.
www.thehill.com /thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/092205/mid.html   (974 words)

  
 Paul And Daisy Soros Fellowship - Boston College   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans provide opportunities for continuing generations of able and accomplished New Americans to achieve leadership in their chosen fields.
The Soros Fellowships provide half tuition and a generous stipend to support two years of graduate study at any U.S. university, in any academic field.
The Soros is a highly-competitive scholarship, and work on the application should begin during the Spring semester of the Junior year.
www.bc.edu /offices/ufel/fellowships/graduates/soros   (325 words)

  
 OSF: George Soros
Soros became familiar with the work of the philosopher Karl Popper, who had a profound influence on his thinking and later on his professional and philanthropic activities.
Soros moved to the United States, where he began to accumulate a large fortune through an international investment fund he founded and managed.
Soros has been active as a philanthropist since 1979, when he began providing funds to help fl students attend Capetown University in apartheid South Africa.
www.osf.cz /en/o-nadaci/soros   (312 words)

  
 Boycott George Soros
"I think that those pictures hit us the same way as the terrorist attack itself," Soros continued, "not quite with the same force, because in the terrorist attack, we were the victims.
Financier George Soros, who you'll recall helped douse the U.S. economy after Sept. 11, has joined with some other "philanthropists" and unions in funding an effort to defeat George W. Bush in 2004.
Soros said: "I believe deeply in the values of an open society.
www.boycottliberalism.com /biographies/Soros.htm   (508 words)

  
 Soros: Dalganın kaynağı Japonya
Soros, “Japon Merkez Bankası’nın aşırı likiditeyi 10 trilyon yene kadar indirmesinden sonra yatırımların dünya çapında azaltılması söz konusu oldu; kurlar, tahviller, hisse senetleri dünya çapında etkilendi, Türkiye de dahil” dedi.
Soros, “Değeri düşünce, Yeni Türk Lirası daha rekabetçi oldu.
Soros, “Ama kısa vadede bir krize yol açacağını düşünmüyorum” dedi.
www.ntv.com.tr /news/377346.asp   (319 words)

  
 Soros, George. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Soros mostly worked as a financial analyst, and in 1969 he founded the first of his offshore hedge funds.
His reputation for financial acumen was tarnished somewhat, however, when the value of the funds fell 20% in early 2000.
As president of the Soros Management Fund, he has used his wealth to create a network of wealthy foundations, many of which are intended to aid former Communist countries in creating the kind of anti-Marxist “open society” advocated by Popper.
www.bartleby.com /65/so/SorosG.html   (334 words)

  
 FrontPage magazine.com :: The Soros-Kerry Nexus by Rachel Ehrenfeld and Shawn Macomber
So was Soros being facetious when he signed off on a 2000 Open Society Institute report that claimed one of the group’s major goals was to get, “states to experiment with various approaches to reduce the pressure of money on elections and legislation, ranging from improved disclosure to full public financing of campaigns”?
Soros on Soros contains a clue as to what he may be thinking: “I do not accept the rules imposed by others...I am a law-abiding citizen, but I recognize that there are regimes that need to be opposed rather than accepted.
And in periods of regime change, the normal rules don’t apply.” Clearly, Soros considers himself as someone who is able to determine when the “normal rules” should and shouldn’t apply.
www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=15575   (769 words)

  
 Alchemy of Finance, The : Reading the Mind of the Market : George Soros
Soros is one of the core of masters.
George Soros is unquestionably the most powerful and profitable investor in the world today.
Soros is not merely a man of finance, but a thinker to reckon with as well.
www.audiobooksonline.com /shopsite/1560150483.html   (314 words)

  
 Soros Urges IMFChanges
Soros said the IMF should act as lender of last resort, and only for ``a select group of countries that are eager to obtain such protection.'' In return, the countries would have to maintain sound economic and banking policies.
One of the major criticisms of the billion-dollar IMF rescue packages for Asia and Russia in the past year was that much of the money went to bail out international bankers who made bad investments.
Soros, chairman of Soros Fund Management, runs the $20 billion Quantum group of hedge funds, which were rattled by the turbulent global economy last year.
www.globalpolicy.org /socecon/bwi-wto/sorosimf.htm   (388 words)

  
 Soros blamed for shakeup
Soros blamed for shakeup in SE Asia currencies The Economic Time (27/07/97) US financier George Soros was accused today of destabilizing South East Asian currencies for political motives, as governments in the region resolved to fight-back against speculation in their money.
Mr Soros was named by Malaysian Foreign Minister Mahathir Mohamad as the man responsible for the recent shakeup of the Malaysian ringgit and other currencies of countries in the association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN).
Mr Soros had admitted that he did not want Malaysia and Thailand to allow Burma, which he regarded a "totalitarian and repressive regime", into Asean, the New Straits Times said.
www.burmalibrary.org /reg.burma/archives/199707/msg00439.html   (573 words)

  
 BHHRG
The overwhelming majority of the respondents said Soros makes his billion profit out of the work of developing nations.
Over 90 percent expressed their view that Soros used his influence over the Georgian government that reflects in the country’s interior politics.
Soros is considered the mastermind and financer of so-called “rose revolution” of November 2003 that led the current Georgian president Mikhail Saakashvili to power.
www.bhhrg.org /mediaDetails.asp?ArticleID=881   (193 words)

  
 George Soros
Born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1930, George Soros is considered by many to be one of the world's greatest investors.
Besides his investing prowess, Soros is also known for his vast philanthropic activities, donating billions of dollars to various causes through the Soros Foundation.
Soros is most famous for his single-day gain of US$1 billion on Sept 6, 1992, which he made by short selling the British pound.
www.investopedia.com /terms/g/soros.asp   (301 words)

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