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George Soros HonFBA (born György Schwartz on August 12, 1930) is a Hungarian-American billionaire businessman, investor, and philanthropist.
- Who Is George Soros?
- Why Is Soros Controversial?
- What Impact Does He Actually have?
- What Motivates The 'Stop Soros' Movement?
Born in Budapest in 1930, Soros survived the Nazi occupation of Hungary and moved to Britain after the Second World War. He later moved to New York, and became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1961. He made his fortune as an investor, turning a $1 billion US profit by short selling pound sterling during the 1992 Black Wednesday U.K. currency crisis. T...
Emily Tamkin, a staff writer for Foreign Policy magazine, compares Soros's public image to a mirror in the Harry Potter novels. When a character looked in that fictional mirror, they would see what they desired most. "He's like that, but with the thing that you revile most," she told The Current'sAnna Maria Tremonti. "In Hungary, he's this Jewish p...
Anna Porter, author of Buying a Better World: George Soros and Billionaire Philanthropy, said Soros is heavily engaged in political causes around the world, from Myanmar to Bosnia. The billions spent in the name of philanthropy have helped individual cases, she explained, and may have even saved lives. But his influence on the wider political lands...
Soros is a useful enemy for politicians in Eastern Europe, said Porter, largely because he is absent. "It's always easier to cry foul against an enemy who is not there," she said. "For Mr. Orban to run an entire election campaign on the anti-Soros ticket is astounding," she added. "I can't remember, from my reading of history, when an incumbent gov...
Jan 4, 2024 · George Soros is a legendary hedge fund manager who is widely considered one of the most successful investors of all time. Soros managed the Quantum Fund, a fund that achieved an average...
Sep 6, 2019 · He's a Jewish multi-billionaire philanthropist who has given away $32bn. Why does the hard right from America to Australia and from Hungary to Honduras believe George Soros is at...
George Soros is one of the world’s foremost philanthropists. He has given away more than $32 billion of his personal fortune to fund the Open Society Foundations’ work around the world. He is also the founder of Central European University, a leading regional center for the study of the social sciences.
Apr 2, 2014 · Who Is George Soros? Investor and philanthropist George Soros survived Nazi occupation followed by Communist-rule in Hungary in the mid-1940s and emigrated to London. There he studied...
May 30, 2018 · Hungarian-American businessman George Soros is one of the world's most renowned, and philanthropic, financial investors. Earning his fortune through shrewd financial speculation, he...
