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Offline thundley4

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George Soros, enigmatic financier, liberal philanthropist dies at XX
« on: April 18, 2013, 05:00:33 PM »
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(Reuters) - 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 made him billions.

He was known as "the man who broke the Bank of England" for selling short the British pound in 1992 and helping force the United Kingdom to withdraw from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism, which devalued the pound and earned Soros more than $1 billion.

And his Soros Fund Management was widely blamed for helping trigger the Asian financial crisis of 1997, by selling short the Thai baht and Malaysian ringgit.

"Subsequently, Prime Minister Mahatir of Malaysia accused me of causing the crisis, a wholly unfounded accusation," Soros wrote in The Crisis of Global Capitalism: Open Society Endangered," in 1998.

"We were not sellers of the currency during or several months before the crisis; on the contrary ... we were purchasing ringgits to realize profits on our earlier speculation."

Still, economist Paul Krugman, was one of many observers who accused Soros of helping trigger the crisis.
Reuters

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Re: George Soros, enigmatic financier, liberal philanthropist dies at XX
« Reply #1 on: April 18, 2013, 05:02:09 PM »
Quote from: thundley4 on April 18, 2013, 05:00:33 PM
Is this a joke?
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Re: George Soros, enigmatic financier, liberal philanthropist dies at XX
« Reply #2 on: April 18, 2013, 05:03:10 PM »
Curious...
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Re: George Soros, enigmatic financier, liberal philanthropist dies at XX
« Reply #3 on: April 18, 2013, 05:04:06 PM »
It was a mistake.  http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-04-18/reuters-releases-george-soros-obituary-mistake-enigmatic-financier-liberal-philanthr

Damn.

Can a mod lock or delete this?  With any luck it can be reopened this year.
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Re: George Soros, enigmatic financier, liberal philanthropist dies at XX
« Reply #4 on: April 18, 2013, 05:13:33 PM »
Quote from: thundley4 on April 18, 2013, 05:04:06 PM
It was a mistake.  http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-04-18/reuters-releases-george-soros-obituary-mistake-enigmatic-financier-liberal-philanthr

Damn.

Can a mod lock or delete this?  With any luck it can be reopened this year.

Figures.
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Re: George Soros, enigmatic financier, liberal philanthropist dies at XX
« Reply #5 on: April 18, 2013, 05:38:59 PM »
Hope springs eternal. Please die you SOB piece of scum!

NB: During WW2, he sold Jewish neighbors, friends, schoolmates, teachers, and even family members to the Nazis. His reasoning? He said that if he didn't do it, others would. He even bragged about it in his autobiography.
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Re: George Soros, enigmatic financier, liberal philanthropist dies at XX
« Reply #6 on: April 19, 2013, 10:44:31 AM »
How in the hell could Reuters make a mistake like that? 
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Re: George Soros, enigmatic financier, liberal philanthropist dies at XX
« Reply #7 on: April 19, 2013, 10:52:08 AM »
It looks like they have the article already written so that they can publish it ASAP once he does die. 
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Re: George Soros, enigmatic financier, liberal philanthropist dies at XX
« Reply #8 on: April 19, 2013, 02:08:23 PM »
Man I was all set to make a comment.  :whistling:
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Re: George Soros, enigmatic financier, liberal philanthropist dies at XX
« Reply #9 on: April 22, 2013, 09:00:39 AM »
Quote from: Karin on April 19, 2013, 10:44:31 AM
How in the hell could Reuters make a mistake like that? 

It's REUTERS.
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