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This is the second in a series of posts about ideas for financial reform generated by the “Make Markets Be Markets” conference I attended yesterday in New York City on 3 Mar 2010.
Below is a compilation of all the ideas for financial reform presented by the group of financial professionals. It includes presentations by Simon [...]
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Make Markets Be Markets: The Report
Mar
Why is George Soros buying gold if it’s in a bubble?
Mar
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A lot of media outlets have noticed that, despite George Soros’ protestations about the rise in gold prices being excessive, Soros Fund Management have invested a lot more money in gold after he made his apparently gold-bearish calls. What gives?
Apparently, Soros is a market-timing momentum investor because his comments in the Australian demonstrate that [...]
Links: 2010-03-01 – Obama is not FDR, George Soros, gross misconduct and more
Mar
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A few words about the last link. When I checked, there were 600+ comments on the post about the Washington Hospital Center firing nurses for the “gross misconduct” of missing work during blizzard conditions. The comments were running 9 to 1 against the decision. I applaud the outrage people are finally showing for the callous [...]
Soros: ‘Markets have moods’
Jul
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George Soros believes regulators “will always be wrong.” But, he does not feel that gives them an excuse to fall asleep at the wheel. In this video conversation with the Wall Street Journal’s Alan Murray, Soros makes the case for regulatory reform, citing the need to expand beyond targeting money supply because “markets have moods.”
The [...]
Soros: ‘the dollar is a very weak currency except all the others’
Jul
Update 19 Jan 2010: In light of Euro weakness and the fissures in the Eurozone economy, one should how the dollar is going to fall precipitously as many have been arguing for months. The Chinese have pegged their currency, the Eurozone has its own problems, the Brits, Japanese and Swiss are running the printing presses.
George Soros: Europe is headed for recession
Sep
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I just spotted an interview in L’Express with George Soros while he is in France plugging his book on the credit crisis. His overall point is that markets are not efficient. They tend to excess. Present regulatory controls and banking standards are inadequate to deal with this. Therefore, we must change regulation to [...]
George Soros: the credit crisis of 2008
Sep
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George Soros recently released an interesting book called “The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What It Means.” The book critiques the new ‘efficient markets’ paradigm that has come to both control the financial marketplace and take a predominant place in economics departments at schools of higher learning. It [...]
Soros calls credit crisis the worst since ‘29
May
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George Soros claims that we are experiencing the most wrenching times in our financial system since the Great Depression. One has to be either appreciative of his advice or envious of his wealth. He made $3 billion in 2007 as a hedge fund manager while the debacle unfolded.
“We are in the midst of [...]
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