George Soros

Mr. Buffet, Mr. Soros: Please Stop Investing in Filthy Fossil Fuels

David Sassoon | Posted 12.01.2008 | Green

Read More: Tar Sands, Warren Buffett, Climate Change, Coal, George Soros, Daniel Rice, BlackRock Advisors Inc., Fossil Fuels, Goldman Sachs Buffet, Energy Investment, Oil-Sands, Bloomberg News, Global Resources Fund, Green News

Buffet and Soros are men who could be showing us the way out of an endless fossil future. Instead, it looks like these men are showing us the opportunistic face of business-as-usual.

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Obama Right to Reassure Wall Street Markets With Rubinauts But Also Needs Econ Advisors Who Stand for Main Street

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 11.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Timothy Geithner Treasury Secretary, Jared Bernstein, Financial Bailout, George Soros, Economic Crisis, Robert Rubin Citibank, Paul Krugman Barack Obama, Obama's Economic Team, Jame Galbraith, Kuttner Obama, Krugman Obama, Financial Advice, u.s. Economy Problems, Larry Summers and Barack Obama, Economic Stimulus Package, Joseph Stiglitz, Financial Meltdown, John Kenneth Galbraith, Kuttner Obama's Challenge, Paul Krugman on Barack Obama, Financial Crisis, Global Financial Crisis, Obama Cabinet Picks, Sheila Bair, Cabinet Appointments, Soros on Crisis, FInancial Markets, Economy, Politics News

We can only hope that Obama balances the smart Rubinauts whom he has picked to lead his economic team with some equally smart pro-Main Street economic minds.

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Of course Barbara Walters Thinks Rush Limbaugh Is "Fascinating"

Eric Boehlert | Posted 11.14.2008 | Media

Read More: Abc, Talk Radio, Rush Limbaugh, George Soros, Barack Obama, Barbara Walters, Tom Daschle, Media News

And that's why ABC is including the right-wing hate talker in a primetime special of the year's most fascinating people. Because naturally, in a yea...

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Hedge Fund Managers Tell Congress They See Need For Tighter Restrictions

NY Times | LOUISE STORY | Posted 11.13.2008 | Business

Read More: George Soros, Wall Street Crisis, Kenneth Griffin, John Paulson, Economy, Hedge Fund Managers, James Simons, Philip Falcone, Business News

Five prominent hedge fund managers testified Thursday before a House committee that they supported some additional regulation of their industry. The ...

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Deficit and jobless claims jump, but stocks soar

AP | MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Posted 11.13.2008 | Business

Read More: Bailout, Hedge Funds, Finance, George Soros, Economy, Financial Crisis, Congress, Business News

WASHINGTON — The nation's financial picture grew darker Thursday, a day marked by breathtaking numbers: a quarter-trillion-dollar budget deficit...

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Who Wasn't On Stage With Obama and Should Have Been?

Steve Clemons | Posted 11.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Robert Kuttner, Penny Pritzker, Adam Posen, Alan Murray, James Galbraith, George Soros, Doug & Heidi Rediker, Leo Hindery, Eric Schmidt, Richard Parsons, Tom Gallagher, Paul Volcker, Lawrence Summers, Economic Team, Warren Buffet, Kevin Phillips, William Daley, William Donaldson, Jennifer Granholm, Joseph Stiglitz, Robert Samuelson, Paul Krugman, Roel Campos, William Bonvillian, Jeffrey Sachs, C. Fred Bergsten, Robert Reich, Antonio Villaraigosa, Joseph Biden, Charlene Barshefsky, Bill Gates, Barack Obama, Robert Rubin, Austan Goolsbee, David Bonior, Economic Policy, Rahm Emanuel, Bernard Schwartz, Jason Furhman, Sheila Bair, Anne Mulcahy, Roger Ferguson, Clyde Prestowitz, Sherle Schwenninger, Obama's Cabinet, Politics News

I'm not satisfied with the roster of economic personalities and thinkers we see Barack Obama mixing with.

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George Soros: Investing In Green Energy Could Save Global Economy (VIDEO)

GreenInc | Posted 10.14.2008 | Green

Read More: Wind Power, Soros Moyers Interview, Video, George Soros, Green Investing, S Renewable Energy, Billionaires, Green Energy, Solar Power, Bill Moyers, Green News

Last Friday, in an interview with Bill Moyers on PBS, George Soros, who has made billions of dollars based on his ability to read the ebb and flow of ...

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Alan Shrugged

Marty Kaplan | Posted 10.13.2008 | Business

Read More: Greed, George Soros, Wall Street Crisis, Subprime Mortgages, American Greed, Financial Crisis, Alan Greenspan, Corporate Greed, Business News

Invoking greed to explain what happened with Wall Street actually explains little. The mystery isn't why people are greedy; it's how greed gets the better of them.

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Back from the Brink: Report from Inside the World Bank Meeting

Sarah van Gelder | Posted 10.13.2008 | Business

Read More: Paulson, John Cavanagh, George Soros, Green Jobs, Wall Street Crisis, Wall Street, David Korten, World Bank, Main Street, Financial Crisis, Henry Paulson, Bailout, Economy, Business News

The World Bank and IMF held their annual meeting in Washington, DC, this weekend, and of course the global economic meltdown was on everyone's minds.

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My Interview with George Soros: End of Financial Crisis Could Be in Sight

Nathan Gardels | Posted 10.12.2008 | Business

Read More: George Soros, Wall Street Crisis, Housing Crisis, Business News

Soros: Repairing the financial system will not stop a severe worldwide recession. The U.S. consumer can no longer serve as the motor of the world economy, the U.S. government must stimulate demand.

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Post Claims Paulson Misled Bush on Bailout

Dean Baker | Posted 10.06.2008 | Business

Read More: Wall Street Crisis, Paulson Bailout, Financial Crisis, George Soros, Business News

According to the Washington Post, after the initial defeat of the bailout package in the House, Paulson told Bush "there is no Plan B." Of course this was not true.

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Sheldon Adelson: GOP's Answer To George Soros?

HuffingtonPost.com | Thomas B. Edsall | Posted 07.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Vets for Freedom, George Soros, Barack Obama, Sheldon Adelsen, Sheldon Adelson, Adelson, Freedom's Watch, John McCain, Republican Jewish Coalition, Republican National Committee, Politics News

Sheldon Adelson, the 74-year-old casino billionaire who has become the third richest man in America and who has strong ties to the hard-line Likud Par...

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Digital Music and the Free Market

Max Keiser | Posted 04.24.2008 | Business

Read More: Adam Smith, Cartel, Mpaa, Copyright, Riaa, Swedish PIrate Party, Bernanke, Ashley Alexandra Dupre, Amiestreet.com, Digital Music, Record Companies, George Soros, Eliot Spitzer, Marketing, Business News

For years, Madonna pretended to be a vamp to make it big. Dupre is an actual hooker scoring big using the indie music site, aimestreet.com, which charges based on user demand.

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The Soros Solution

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 04.24.2008 | Business

Read More: Bernanke, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Countrywide, George Soros, Business News

I'm a big fan of bailouts. Some believe that the markets should go through the pain of what they have wrought on themselves in order to come out the other side cleaner, stronger, faster. Not me.

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Earth Day Resolution: No Biofuel from Food Crops

Chris McGowan | Posted 04.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Soros, Food Riots, Amazon Deforestation, Biofuels, Amazon Rain Forest, Biofuel, Earth Day, Steven Bing, Ethanol, Food Prices, Cerrado, Ron Burkle, Global Warming, Steve Case, Earth Day 2008, Biodiesel, Politics News

Biofuel has a positive role to play, but it will come from its production from agricultural and food waste or from renewable native grasses in areas that are not environmentally sensitive.

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Hedge-Fund Managers Score Biggest Ever Payday

Posted 04.16.2008 | Business

Read More: John Griffin, Stephen Mandel Jr, Steven Cohen, Kenneth Griffin, Hedge Fund Salaries, Hedge Funds, Timothy Barakett, Hedge Fund Managers Salaries, George Soros, Hedge Fund Managers, O. Andreas Halvorsen, Alpha Magazine, James Simons, Philip Falcome, Business News

It's a good day to be a hedge fund manager. Institutional Investor's Alpha magazine has just released it's annual ranking of top hedge funds earners...

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Hedge Fund Managers See Billion-Dollar Paydays

New York Times | JENNY ANDERSON | Posted 04.16.2008 | Business

Read More: Wall Street Money, John Paulson, Hedge Funds, George Soros, Business News

Hedge fund managers, those masters of a secretive, sometimes volatile financial universe, are making money on a scale that once seemed unimaginable, e...

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O'Reilly's 'Soros' Smear of Obama

Jeffrey Feldman | Posted 04.15.2008 | Media

Read More: Bill O'Reilly, George Soros, Barack Obama, 2008 Presidential Election, Media News

This week, Bill O'Reilly invoked violent logic to suggest that a Barack Obama presidency could have dire consequences for American citizens.

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Where Have All the 527s Gone?

Dylan Loewe | Posted 04.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Democrat 527, David Brock, George Soros, Tom Matzzie, Progressive Media USA, Campaign to Defend America, Michael Vachon, Soft Money, Barack Obama, Fund for America, Democrats 527, 527 Groups, 527s, 527 Organizations, Politics News

Though Obama will continue to attack McCain aggressively, there are certainly methods to define McCain that only a 527 can comfortably pursue.

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Soros: Credit Crunch Is "Biggest Financial Crisis Of My Lifetime"

New York Times | Louise Story | Posted 04.11.2008 | Business

Read More: Economic Reflexivity, Superbubble, Global Economic Collapse, George Soros Retirement, George Soros, Reflexivity, Soros on Crisis, Business News

George Soros will not go quietly. At the age of 77, Mr. Soros, one the world's most successful investors and richest men, leapt out of retirement las...

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George Soros: "We Are in the Midst Of The Worst Financial Crisis Since the 1930s."

Blake Fleetwood | Posted 04.03.2008 | Business

Read More: George Bush, Recession, Depression, George Soros, Decline of the Dollar, Housing Crisis, Communism, Dollar, Hillary Clinton, Pound, Forbes, Bank of England, Barack Obama, Business News

If Soros is right and foreigners lose confidence in the U.S. economy, they will want their money back, the dollar will fall, and foreign investments will tumble.

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New $2 Million Ideas Fund: Competing to be a Soros "Ideas Entrepreneur"

Steve Clemons | Posted 03.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Philanthropy, Ideas Industry, Think Tanks, New America Foundation, National Security, George Soros, Entrepreneurship, Karen Kornbluh, Open Society Institute, Barack Obama, Politics News

Creativity funds -- money to help smart people take risks, even for a year -- are vital to our times. This kind of investment in tomorrow's ideas and policy infrastructure is vital today.

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Today's Market Crisis: "This Too Will Pass"

Vince Farrell | Posted 03.03.2008 | Business

Read More: Chartwell Captial, Aig, U.S. Economy, Trim Tabs Investment, Monthly Jobs Report, Crude Oil, Craig Johnson, George Soros, Barron's, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Charles Biderman, Recession, Consumers, Business News

George Soros says this is the worst market crisis in 60 years. With respect, I think that's more a political statement than not.

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Is This The Worst Crisis Ever?

Eben Esterhuizen | Posted 02.27.2008 | Business

Read More: U.S. Economy, Economics, George Soros, Stock Market, Recession Fears, Recession, David Rosenberg, Alan Greenspan, Credit Crunch, Bear Market, Credit Markets, Stocks, Financial Crises, Business News

A bear market is only possible if there is a consensus that a financial crisis is significantly worse than ever before. And that is why we are currently in a bear market.

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Is Obama Good For Business?

BusinessWeek | Eamon Javers | Posted 02.13.2008 | Business

Read More: Potomac Primary Results, Paul Volcker Barack Obama, Obama Business, George Soros, Warren Buffett, Hillary Clinton, Potomac Primary, Paul Volcker, Barack Obama, Ubs, Business News

On Sunday, Feb. 10, after he found out he'd won that day's Democratic Presidential primary in Maine, but before his appearance on CBS's 60 Minutes, Se...

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