SOROS: The Life, Times, and Trading Secrets of the World's Greates Investor

By Robert Slater

Mcgraw-Hill, 1995 

Veteran Time reporter and renowned biographer Robert Slater probes Soros's financial genius to give readers insight to the unique investment philosophy, strategies, methods, and tactics that have given George Soros enormous influence over world financial markets and in 1993 made him America's largest money-earner (a record-breaking $1.1 billion). Since 1992, the Soros Foundations he created to fund political reform in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union have given away $500 million - and have plans to give away $500 million more. Soros is the fascinating story of this enigmatic master investor, philanthropist, and self-styled philosopher. 

George Soros (born August 12, 1930 in Budapest, Hungary as Schwartz György) is a financialspeculator, stock investor, philanthropist, liberal political activist and philosopher. Currently, he is the chairman of Soros Fund Management and the Open Society Institute and is also a former member of the Board of Directors of the Council on Foreign Relations. His support for the Solidarity labor movement in Poland, as well as the Czechoslovakian human rights organization Charter 77, contributed to end of Soviet Union's rule on those nations. His funding and organization of Georgia's Rose Revolution was considered crucial to its success by Russian and Western observers although Soros said his role has been "greatly exaggerated." In the United States he is known for donating large sums of money to efforts to defeat President George W. Bush's bid for re-election.

Useful links and references

• George Soros official site and blog
• Open Society Institute and Soros Foundations Network
• George Soros' Project Syndicate op/eds

Bio

• Forbes.com: Forbes 400 Richest in America
• George Soros Bio

About

• Stephen Adams "Furious George" on Citizen - Family Issues in Policy and Culture
• Laura Blumenfeld, Billionaire Soros Takes On Bush, MSNBC, November 11, 2003
• Neil Clark Analysis of Soros' role in Eastern Europe from "New Statesman"
• Heather Coffin George Soros: Imperial Wizar
• Fortune City List of articles and speeches by and about George Soros
• John Horvath The Soros Effect on Central and Eastern Europe
• Victor Niederhoffer and Laurel Kenner Three Lessons Learned from George Soros in the Speculator.
• Matt Welch, Open Season on 'Open Society': Why an anti-communist Holocaust survivor is being demonized as a Socialist, Self-hating Jew Reason magazine, December 8, 2003

Speech

• Testimony of George Soros to a congressional sub-committee, Sept. 15, 1998
• The Theory of Reflexivity Delivered April 26, 1994 to the MIT Department of Economics World Economy http://www.geocities.com/ecocorner/intelarea/gs1.html

Writings

• George Soros, The Bubble of American Supremacy, editorial in The Korea Herald, March 12, 2003.
• George Soros, The Bubble of American Supremacy, column in the Atlantic Monthly, December 2003.
• Johnson's Russia List Issue - Moskovsky Novosti: George Soros, Bitter Thoughts with Faith in Russia
• (stop-imf) FT: Soros on Brazil - Aug 13, 2002

Interviews

• frontline: the crash: interviews: george soros
• Wall $treet Week with FORTUNE . TV Program | PBS
• Challenge: The international financial crisis - International ...
• NOW with Bill Moyers. Transcript. David Brancaccio interviews ...
• Booknotes with Brian Lamb. Transcript and streaming video.

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