Monday, October 13, 2008
99th-richest person in the world
Soros is famously known for "breaking the Bank of England" on
Black Wednesday in 1992. With an estimated current net worth of
around $9 billion, he is ranked by Forbes as the
99th-richest person in the world.
Posted by Mahyar Hashemi,
at 12:42 AM
Monday, October 13, 2008
Soros Bio
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul
Volcker wrote in 2003 in the foreword of Soros' book The
Alchemy of Finance:
George Soros has made his mark as an enormously successful
speculator, wise enough to largely withdraw when still way ahead of
the game. The bulk of his enormous winnings is now devoted to
encouraging transitional and emerging nations to become 'open societies,' open not
only in the sense of freedom of commerce but - more important -
tolerant of new ideas and different modes of thinking and
behavior.
Posted by Mahyar Hashemi,
at 12:39 AM