George Soros

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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
Max Keiser

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>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing

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
Chris McGowan

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
Jeffrey Feldman

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
Dylan Loewe

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
Blake Fleetwood

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
Steve Clemons

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
Vince Farrell

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
Eben Esterhuizen

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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New Propaganda Piece Hits Iranian Airwaves

Sam Sedaei | Posted 02.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, George Soros, John McCain, Iran Propaganda, War With Iran, Gene Sharp, Propaganda, Iran, Khatami, Ahmadinejad, Iran John McCain George Soros Gene Sharp, Politics News
Sam Sedaei

The Iranian regime has found itself searching for ways to discredit any genuine movement for democracy by relying on absurd conspiracy theories to link any opposition to the American government.

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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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A $43 Trillion Dollar Market That Most People Have Never Heard Of

Jacki Zehner | Posted 02.12.2008 | Business

Read More: Fixed Income, George Soros, Credit Default Swaps, Shadow Banking, Credit Crunch, Bill Gross, Economy, Business News
Jacki Zehner

You are going to be hearing a lot about fixed income markets in coming weeks and months, which begs the question, why don't most people even know what they are?

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George Soros Bets On Bollywood

Variety | Patrick Frater | Posted 02.08.2008 | Business

Read More: Adlabs Group, Reliance Entertainment, Anil Dirubhai Ambani, Bollywood, Reliance ADAG, George Soros, Indian Movies, Business News

Iconic financier George Soros has paid $100 million for a stake in Indian movies, gaming and Internet conglom Reliance Entertainment. He is picking u...

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Recession Fear and Dollar Loathing in Las Vegas

Eben Esterhuizen | Posted 02.06.2008 | Business

Read More: Recession Fears, Federal Reserve, Recession, U.S. Economy, Budget Gap, Consumer Debt, Wall Street, George Soros, Business News
Eben Esterhuizen

The Fed may continue to cut interest rates, but they must be careful not to run out of ammunition. In other words, if the federal funds are lowered beyond a certain point, the ability of the Fed to stimulate the economy comes to an end.

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Soros Pours $2.5 Million Into New Advocacy Group

LA Times | Posted 02.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Soros Gives to Group, Soros Donations, George Soros, Politics News

Here comes Big George again. Billionaire George Soros is weighing in heavily with more cash, delivering $2.5 million to a new political organization c...

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Dish After Davos: Magic and The Mountains

Susan Sawyers | Posted 01.31.2008 | Business

Read More: Al Gore, Howard Dean, Davos, Dan Quayle, The Magic Mountain, Water Crisis, George Soros, Laura Tyson, Bono, Davos 2008, Wold Economic Forum, Business News
Susan Sawyers

Much like Thomas Mann's main character in The Magic Mountain, written in Davos, I was an "ordinary [wo]man," amongst a sea of world leaders and power brokers. This convergence of knowledge and influence in one place made for some heady observations and encounters.

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Earth, Wind & Fire Raises Key Fed Funk Rate

Linda Keenan | Posted 01.26.2008 | Business

Read More: Subprime Crisis, Christopher Hitchens, George Soros, Queen Rania, Davos, Maurice White, Earth, Arianna Huffington, World Economic Forum, Recession, Ben Bernanke, Gordon Brown, Wind & Fire, Ban Ki-Moon, Bill Gates, Federal Reserve, Funk, Global Market Turmoil, Stock Market, Al Gore, Philip Bailey, Charlie Rose, Tracy Morgan, Satire, Davos 2008, Business News
Linda Keenan

The move was preceded by the triumphantastic sounds of the EWF horn section heard around the rarefied precincts of the World Economic Forum.

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Soros: Worst Market Crisis In 60 Years

Financial Times | George Soros | Posted 01.25.2008 | Business

Read More: Dollar Value, US Housing Market, Soros, Weak Dollar, Financial TImes, George Soros, Market Crisis, Business News

The current financial crisis was precipitated by a bubble in the US housing market. In some ways it resembles other crises that have occurred since th...

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Bon Jovi Entertains A-List Masses On St. Barts' Yacht

Fox News | Roger Friedman | Posted 01.02.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Denzel Washington, Lorne Michaels, Penny Marshall, Martha Stewart, George Soros, Paul Allen, Rebecca DeMornay, Robbie Robertson, Bon Jovi, Paul Allen Octopus, Billy Joel, Linda Evangelista, Ziyi Zhang, Brett Ratner, Harvey Weinstein, Steven Spielberg, Tom Freston, Vivi Nevo, Katie Lee, LeeLee Sobieski, Georgina Chapman, St. Barts, Charles Simonyi, Peter Morton, Entertainment News

The real party down in expensive, tony, and apparently cold St. Bart's this year was on December 30th. The location was Microsoft co founder Paul Alle...

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Who Should Be Time's Person of the Year?

Steve Clemons | Posted 12.14.2007 | Media

Read More: Angelia Jolie, Al Gore, Time, Petraeus, Ahmadinejad, Sarkozy, George Soros, Ron Paul, Guantanamo, Cheney, Person of the Year, Obama, Schwarzenegger, Putin, Media News
Steve Clemons

My pick for Time Magazine's "Person of the Year" would be the "Guantanamo Detainee" because this unresolved problem goes to the very core of what America decides to be in the future.

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Dem Mega-Donors To Plot '08 Plans

Politico | Ben Smith | Posted 10.30.2007 | Politics

Read More: 2008 Elections, Fundraisers, Democrats, George Soros, Politics News

The wealthy Democrats and giant organizations that spent $135 million to make John Kerry president in 2004 are reaching into their pockets for another...

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