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November 23, 2008 8:01 pm

The U.S. economy needs additional support measures of between $300 billion and $600 billion to help it withstand the financial crisis, U.S. billionaire investor George Soros was quoted as saying by ... Read more »

Soros, Falcone Defend Hedge Funds at House Hearing

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November 13, 2008 9:45 pm

Hedge-fund managers including George Soros and Philip Falcone, in an unprecedented appearance before Congress, defended their practices and profits while splitting over whether the U.S. should impose stricter regulations.“This is ... Read more »

Soros predicts hedge fund horror in ‘worst financial crisis since the 1930s’

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9:36 pm

Billionaire investor George Soros yesterday warned that hedge funds will be ‘decimated’ in what he described as the ‘worst financial crisis since the 1930s’, writes Rupert Steiner. He was giving ... Read more »

Soros says crisis underscores need for regulation

November 1, 2008 9:36 pm

Financier, philanthropist and political activist George Soros told an MIT audience Tuesday that the current financial crisis underscored the need for regulation, even while he warned of the pitfalls of ... Read more »

SOROS PROJECTS HEDGE CUT

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October 29, 2008 8:52 pm

The global financial crisis will reduce the hedge-fund industry to as little as a third of its current size, billionaire investor George Soros said yesterday. “The hedge-fund industry is going ... Read more »

Soros on: How to capitalise the banks and save finance

October 13, 2008 9:31 pm

Now that Hank Paulson has recognised that the troubled asset relief programme is best used to recapitalise the banking system, it is important to spell out exactly how it should ... Read more »

Soros: This current economic disaster is self-generated. It was generated by the market itself

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11:09 am

Bill Moyers talks with one of the world’s most successful investors George Soros about the global capital meltdown, how he saw it coming, and what can be done now. watch it here: http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/10102008/watch.html

George Soros: Recapitalise the banking system

October 2, 2008 9:33 pm

The emergency legislation currently before Congress was ill-conceived – or more accurately, not conceived at all. As Congress tried to improve what Treasury originally requested, an amalgam plan has emerged ... Read more »

Soros: Paulson cannot be allowed a blank cheque

September 25, 2008 9:53 pm

Hank Paulson’s $700bn rescue package has run into difficulty on Capitol Hill. Rightly so: it was ill-conceived. Congress would be abdicating its responsibility if it gave the Treasury secretary a ... Read more »

Soros loses $120 million on Lehman stake

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September 11, 2008 10:22 pm

Billionaire George Soros’s hedge fund may have lost at least $120 million on its stake in Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., mostly acquired in the second quarter, as the investment bank ... Read more »

George Soros behind Mass. effort to decriminalize pot

August 27, 2008 8:24 pm

A measure that would decriminalize minor marijuana-possession cases is on the ballot in Massachusetts largely because of one man: billionaire financier and liberal activist George Soros. Of the $429,000 collected ... Read more »

Lehman Rises After Billionaire George Soros Raises Stake

August 15, 2008 8:43 pm

Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., the fourth-largest U.S. securities firm, rose in New York trading after billionaire George Soros disclosed that he bought almost 10 million shares of the company in ... Read more »

Soros, the Man Who Cries Wolf, Now Is Warning of a ‘Superbubble’

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June 22, 2008 5:21 pm

He has cried wolf many times, but this time George Soros says the beast is really upon us. Mr. Soros, the chairman of Soros Fund Management, is best-known as a ... Read more »

Soros sounds alarm on oil ‘bubble’

June 3, 2008 8:56 am

Billionaire investor George Soros is to tell US lawmakers on Tuesday that “a bubble in the making” is under way in oil and other commodities and that commodity indices are ... Read more »

Soros: rocketing oil price is a bubble

May 26, 2008 10:39 am

Speculators are largely responsible for driving crude prices to their peaks in recent weeks and the record oil price now looks like a bubble, George Soros has warned. The billionaire ... Read more »

Soros Says Impact of Crisis on Economy Just Starting

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May 7, 2008 10:54 pm

Billionaire investor George Soros said the “acute phase” of the financial crisis is “largely behind us” even as the U.S. economy is only now starting to feel the effect.The damage ... Read more »

Soros Says Commodity `Bubble’ Still in `Growth Phase’

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April 18, 2008 6:41 pm

Billionaire George Soros said the boom in commodities is still in a “growth phase” after prices for oil, wheat and gold rose to records.“You have a generalized commodity bubble due ... Read more »

Soros Lambastes Market Theory, Says It Created `Super-Bubble’

Filed under Hedge funds, George Soros - Soros Fund Management, Predictions

April 5, 2008 12:21 pm

For 20 years, George Soros has challenged the theory that markets, however choppy, always move toward equilibrium. Now a meltdown has handed him rich evidence that the hypothesis isn’t just ... Read more »

George Soros publishes a book about 2008 credit crisis

Filed under George Soros - Soros Fund Management, Books written by billionaires

April 3, 2008 7:38 am

titeled “The New Paradigm for Financial Markets” (Public Affairs, 2008). Released today online, the book explains the causes of the current meltdown, a crisis he says has been in the ... Read more »

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Soros on Credit Crisis

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April 2, 2008 7:24 pm

Billionaire investor George Soros discusses the credit crisis with CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo watch it here: http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=700385842