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Saturday, February 18, 2012

George Soros

 He is one of the America's leading philanthropist, specializing in speculating world currencie markets. "The man who broke the Bank of England" is his nickname after he placed a high-stakes bet against the British Pound and got roughly around US$ 1 billion through Quantum Fund.
Soros, a Jewish-Hungarian born, and naturalized US citizen, had also made countries in the Southeast Asia like Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia plunged into a financial crisis in 1998 which made the Prime Minister of Malaysia Mahathir Mohamad got angry and called him as 'moron', but Soros didn't made any comment nor reaction. He belief in the 'open society' and criticized the free market capitalism

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