The exact term George Soros uses is "superbubble," as he tells a skeptical Greg Ip of the Wall Street Journal in an interview, Soros, the Man Who Cries Wolf, Now Is Warning of a "Superbubble". Bubblicious is a kind of gum favored by callow teenagers (I loved...
George Soros Goes BubbliciousCassandraA learned reader reminds me that Cassandra was not a boy who cried wolf. Obviously, she was not a boy at all. But more importantly for the context of my post, people didn't believe her though she always told the truth.Soros is thus no Cassandra. My...
George Soros knows financial markets -- it's how he got to be a billionaire. So when he starts pointing out fundamental flaws in today's markets and calls for reform, he's doing it from within the machine. Soros has a new book out, "The New Paradigm for Financial...
Warren Buffett and George Soros might be two of Americas most famous and successful investors, but Soros seems the less covered in business circles, which is odd, because I find him infinitely complex and interesting though my knowledge of him at the moment is still scant. Soros on Soros...
SuperVision Entertainment Inc. --(PINKSHEETS: SVET) Following the sale of the DreamWorks film library of 59 films to a privateinvestment group led by George Soros for $900 million, SuperVision ispleased to announce that it has completed the purchase of a film andtelevision library with almost 1,000 titles. The library is expected...
WHEN PETROL and diesel prices were raised in early June, there was little doubt all of us would be affected. Now there is NO doubt. All we need do is open our newspapers or go online for our daily dollop of depressing data from conventional sources or...
PORT-AU-PRINCE AFP — Haitian President Rene Preval has designated Michele Pierre-Louis as his new prime minister, parliament leader Kely Bastien said, after the body turned down two other candidates in the past month. Pierre-Louis, 61, is a close friend of Preval who since 1995 has headed FOKAL (the...
Until recently, aging big-shot executives were happy to play golf, become ambassadors or just fade away. Have you noticed that CNBC is dominated by frisky septuagenarians? Last Wednesday, Carl Icahn, the 72-year-old corporate raider turned hedge-fund manager/ shareholder activist, was terrorizing the whippersnappers at Yahoo, accusing the executive...
George Soros, the billionaire financier, has rounded on institutional investors who have been ploughing money into oil, saying they are following a "craze" that is inflating a commodities bubble and harming the global economy. And he predicted that the rise of index funds that allow retail investors...
NEW YORK — The list of culprits to blame for $4 gas and $125 oil keeps getting longer. Oil-thirsty China and India get most of the blame. The declining U.S. dollar, tight supplies, geopolitics and hurricanes ...
Soon after George W. Bush's re-election in 2004, wealthy Democratic donors from across the country, dispirited and frustrated, scrambled to understand why their efforts to retake the White House had failed--and just how they could utilize their considerable means to help elect Democrats moving forward. Out of the...
If George Soros thinks Britain is likely to have a recession, it must be so? Er, no. The Hungarian-born billionaire speculator and philanthropist made his name, and much of his fortune, by betting against sterling ahead of its ejection from the ERM in 1992. That earned him the sobriquet: "The...
Alpha magazine, as part of its fifth-yearanniversary celebration, announces the creation of the Alpha Hedge FundHall of Fame to recognize those individuals who have had a major impact onthe evolution, growth and success of the now $2 trillion hedge fundindustry. The inaugural group of 14 inductees is a who's who...
After trailing George Soros for nine years, Irene Hell comes face to face with him again - and his latest grim warning for the financial system George Soros spoke very calmly: "There is no free lunch. First you have to listen to me." I felt the tension...
The Open Society Institute-Baltimore, which was started in 1998 by financier George Soros, celebrated its 10th anniversary and announced two new major gifts that put the institute more than halfway toward its $20 million goal in its development campaign, OSI officials announced. Empower Baltimore Management Corp., the nonprofit overseeing the...
WASHINGTON -- For most people, being known as a fabulously wealthy investor, prominent global philanthropist and outspoken critic of the current occupant of the White House would constitute sufficient acclaim. But George Soros, now in his eighth decade and enjoying a personal fortune estimated at $9 billion, yearns...
On Tuesday, when hundreds of black tie-wearing philanthropists gather in Baltimore to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the local chapter of George Soros' Open Society Institute, the site of their revelry could be the star of the show. OSI organizers chose Silo Point -- a...
Valerie Guymon, whose liberal pronouncements have graced this space in the past, has outdone herself with her fawning description of Barack Obama (Readers' Forum, May 7). I, for one, say he is a liberal elitist espousing George Soros' beliefs of world order. This is confirmed by his...
If nothing else, three decades as one of the world's most successful speculators has taught George Soros how to pitch a book. While the main title of his latest work, The New Paradigm for Financial Markets, might not be the kind of thing to get Waterstone's managers clearing their shelves,...
The Outsider's Edge Brent D. Taylor, author Adrian Mulraney, narrator Bolinda Publishing, Inc. 48 Oxford Woods, Falmouth, ME 04105-3401 9781921415173, $118.95 www.bolinda.com 1-888-235-2019 The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires is an unabridged audiobook analysis of seventeen...
