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financier George Soros
[b. 1930]
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"I'm not better than the next trader, just quicker at admitting my mistakes and moving on to the next opportunity."
"The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States."
— George Soros
B I O
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György Schwartz was born in Budapest, Hungary on August 12, 1930. He survived the German occupation of Budapest and left communist Hungary in 1947 for England, where he graduated from the London School of Economics. While a student at L.S.E., he became familiar with the work of the philosopher Karl Popper, who had a profound influence on his thinking and later on his professional and philanthropic activities. In 1956 Mr. Soros moved to the United States, where he began to accumulate a large fortune through an international investment fund that he founded and managed. Today he is Chairman of Soros Fund Management LLC.
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George Soros credits [since 1992] at Internet Movie Database
Written Works
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"The Alchemy of Finance: Reading The Mind of The Market" [5/1987] by George Soros & Paul A. Volcker
http://www.amazon.com/Alchemy-Finance-George-Soros/dp/0471445495/ Jun 15, 2015
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01FJ1L1TI/ pb 6/88
paperback: Wiley 2003 ISBN 978-0-471-44549-4
http://www.amazon.com/Alchemy-Finance-Reading-Market-1987-05-03/dp/B01F7XE4QU/
http://www.amazon.com/Alchemy-Finance-Reading-Mind-Market/dp/0671634550/
hc? Simon & Schuster 1988 ISBN 978-0-671-66238-7
http://www.amazon.com/alquimia-las-finanzas-Spanish/dp/8494920332/ 11/2019
http://www.amazon.com/Alchemy-Finance-Chinese-Soros-George/dp/9869798543/ 1/2020
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/4893465228/ jp hb
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/4862801307/ new jp hb 2009
"Opening the Soviet System" [Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1990] by George Soros
paperback: Perseus Books 1996 ISBN 978-0-8133-1205-7
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0297820559/
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B010EUM81O/
"Underwriting Democracy: Encouraging Free Enterprise and Democratic Reform Among the Soviets
and in Eastern Europe" [Free Press 9/1991] by George Soros
http://www.amazon.com/Underwriting-Democracy-Encouraging-Enterpirse-Democratic-ebook/dp/B001W6Q6HM/
http://www.amazon.com/Underwriting-Democracy-Encouraging-Enterpirse-Democratic/dp/1586482270/
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0029302854/
"Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve" [John Wiley 8/1995] by George Soros
http://www.amazon.com/Soros-Staying-Ahead-Curve/dp/0471119776/
http://www.amazon.com/Soros-Staying-Ahead-Curve/dp/0471120146/
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/4883043002/ jp hb
"The Crisis Of Global Capitalism: Open Society Endangered" [PublicAffairs 12/1998] by George Soros
http://www.amazon.com/Crisis-Global-Capitalism-George-Soros/dp/8176497991/
http://www.amazon.com/Crisis-Global-Capitalism-Society-Endangered/dp/1891620274/
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/4532147190/ jp hb
"Science and the Open Society: The Future of Karl Popper's Philosophy"
[Central European Univ Press 4/2000] by Mark A. Notturno, Foreword by George Soros
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01K3JEE7W/
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/9639116696/ pb
ISBN 978-963-9116-70-2
more information on Karl Popper [1902-94] at Maison d'Être Philosophy Bookstore
"Open Society: Reforming Global Capitalism" [PublicAffairs 11/2000] by George Soros
http://www.amazon.com/Open-Society-Capitalism-Capitalism-Reconsidered/dp/B013J8Z90A/
http://www.amazon.com/Open-Society-Reforming-Global-Capitalism/dp/0316855987/
http://www.amazon.com/Society-Reforming-Global-Capitalism-Reconsidered/dp/B0086HRE12/
http://www.amazon.com/Open-Society-Reforming-Global-Capitalism/dp/1586480197/
"George Soros On Globalization" [PublicAffairs 3/2002] by George Soros
http://www.amazon.com/George-Soros-Globalization-ebook/dp/B004PYDBIU/
http://www.amazon.com/George-Soros-Globalization/dp/1586482785/
ISBN 978-1-58648-125-4 pb 2005
http://www.amazon.com/George-Soros-Globalization/dp/1903985242/
"The Bubble of American Supremacy: Correcting the Misuse of American Power" [PublicAffairs 12/2003] by George Soros
http://www.amazon.com/Bubble-American-Supremacy-George-Paperback/dp/B008CMEEIM/
http://www.amazon.com/Bubble-American-Supremacy-George-2003-12-02/dp/B01K3JPTBC/
http://www.amazon.com/Bubble-American-Supremacy-George-Soros/dp/0753818604/ pb 9/2004
http://www.amazon.com/Bubble-American-Supremacy-Correcting-Misuse/dp/1586482173/
"The Age of Fallibility: Consequences of the War on Terror" [PublicAffairs 6/2006] by George Soros
http://www.amazon.com/Age-Fallibility-Consequences-War-Terror-ebook/dp/B004WOGZUY/
http://www.amazon.com/Age-Fallibility-Consequences-War-Terror/dp/158648494X/
http://www.amazon.com/Age-Fallibility-Consequences-War-Terror/dp/1586483595/
http://www.amazon.com/Age-Fallibility-Democracy-Rights-Society/dp/0297852302/
 | "The Crash of 2008 and What It Means: The New Paradigm For Financial Markets" [2008] by George Soros http://www.amazon.com/Crash-2008-What-Means-Financial-ebook/dp/B004ROT3NA/ PublicAffairs 7½x5 pb [3/2009] for $10.17 http://www.amazon.com/New-Paradigm-Financial-Markets-Credit/dp/1586486837/ 5/2008 also cross copy to gopmeltdown |
"The Soros Lectures At The Central European University, Illustrated" [PublicAffairs 2/2010] by George Soros
five lectures that he delivered at the Central European University in October 2009
http://www.amazon.com/Soros-Lectures-Central-European-University-ebook/dp/B0035GTHKK/
http://www.amazon.com/Soros-Lectures-Central-European-University/dp/1586489445/
http://www.amazon.com/Soros-Lectures-Central-European-University/dp/1586488856/
"Mi Filosofía" [2011] by George Soros - translation of which prior book?
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/6071108861/
"Financial Turmoil in Europe and the United States: Essays" [PublicAffairs 2/2012] by George Soros
http://www.amazon.com/Financial-Turmoil-Europe-United-States-ebook/dp/B006R6Z0WE/
http://www.amazon.com/Financial-Turmoil-Europe-United-States/dp/1610391527/
ISBN 978-1-61039-161-0
"La tormenta financiera: Por qué los mercados sólo pueden sobrevivir con reglas (Spanish Edition)" [9/2012]
by George Soros and Eduardo G. Murillo - thirty essays, written between 2008 and 2011,
http://www.amazon.com/tormenta-financiera-mercados-pueden-sobrevivir/dp/8423328945/
"The Tragedy of the European Union: Disintegration or Revival?" [PublicAffairs 3/2014] by George Soros
http://www.amazon.com/Tragedy-European-Union-Disintegration-Revival-ebook/dp/B00EGWE10S/
http://www.amazon.com/Tragedy-European-Union-Disintegration-2014-03-11/dp/B01K3MGPV2/
ISBN 978-1-61039-421-5
"In Defense of Open Society" [October 22, 2019] by George Soros
http://www.amazon.com/Defense-Open-Society-George-Soros-ebook/dp/B07PLMCFX7/
http://www.amazon.com/Defense-Open-Society-George-Soros/dp/1541736702/
http://www.amazon.com/Defence-Open-Society-George-Soros/dp/152934350X/
http://www.amazon.com/Defence-Open-Society-George-Soros/dp/1529343496/
"En defensa de la sociedad abierta (Spanish Edition)" [Dec 15, 2020] by George Soros
http://www.amazon.com/En-defensa-sociedad-abierta-Spanish-ebook/dp/B08L9T3Q54/
http://www.amazon.com/En-defensa-sociedad-abierta-Spanish/dp/6077479799/
"George Soros Quotes: Selected Quotes By The Controversial Billionaire" [Jan 3, 2020] by Eric Adams 51 pages
http://www.amazon.com/George-Soros-Quotes-Controversial-Billionaire-ebook/dp/B083GZK3VX/
Movies, Stageplays, Other Media
George Soros incomplete credits [since 1992] at Internet Movie Database
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"The Charlie Rose Talk Show" TV series [PBS/WNET-TV/Bloomberg 1991-2017]
 | Syndicated hour-long interview program, with occasional pre-recorded segments by others; the show was cancelled in November 2017 after allegations of sexual harassment by Rose very incomplete series credits at IMDb • official series website • series entry at Wikipedia official 'Charlie Rose Show' YouTube Channel [est. 8/2006], with 113,000 subscribers official website guest archive list for George Soros: 16 videos online |
"Charlie Rose" with Benjamin Netanyahu (to 17:42), George Soros, Vogue editor Shirley Lord (starts at 41:46) - 16 February 1994
http://www.charlierose.com/videos/21242 = soros segment
http://www.charlierose.com/videos/21518 = full episode [54:56]
"Charlie Rose" with George Soros, Hugh Price - 2 August 1995
http://www.charlierose.com/videos/19025 = soros segment
http://www.charlierose.com/videos/23042 = full episode [55:21]
"Charlie Rose" with George Soros - 2 October 1995
http://www.charlierose.com/videos/17526 [55:21]
http://www.amazon.com/Charlie-Rose-George-Soros-October/dp/B000J6H0WG/
"Charlie Rose" with George Soros, Susanna Moore, A.R. Gurney - 30 November 1995
http://www.charlierose.com/videos/12362 = soros segment
http://www.charlierose.com/videos/22853 = full episode [54:02]
http://www.amazon.com/Charlie-George-Susanna-Gurney-November/dp/B01EGQPCPG/
"Charlie Rose" with Edward Said (to 14:34), Raghida Dergham, Hisham Melhem, and George Soros {starts at 31:27) - 22 December 1998
http://www.charlierose.com/videos/27356 = full episode [52:42]
http://www.amazon.com/Charlie-Edward-Raghida-Dergham-December/dp/B000IU339W/
"Charlie Rose" with George Soros - 23 February 2001
http://www.charlierose.com/videos/29119 = full episode [53:40]
http://www.amazon.com/Charlie-Rose-George-Soros-February/dp/B01GUP714Q/
"Charlie Rose" with George Soros, Michael Moore - 15 January 2004
http://www.charlierose.com/videos/2219 = soros segment
http://www.charlierose.com/videos/21914 = full episode
http://www.amazon.com/Charlie-George-Soros-Michael-January/dp/B01EGQPBHA/ currently unavailable
"Charlie Rose" with George Soros, Arianna Huffington - 12 October 2006 = /tt1800630/
http://www.charlierose.com/videos/19256 = soros segment
http://www.charlierose.com/videos/27285 = full episode
http://www.amazon.com/Charlie-discussion-Arianna-Huffington-October/dp/B01GUP6XGI/
"Charlie Rose" with George Soros (to 31:45), actress Helen Mirren - 10 April 2008
http://www.charlierose.com/videos/11416 = soros segment
http://www.charlierose.com/videos/22855 = full episode
http://www.amazon.com/Charlie-Rose-George-Soros-Mirren/dp/B0016ZPH88/
  | "Inside Job" [Sony Pictures Classics Oct 2010] "If you're not enraged by the end of this movie, [then] you haven't been paying attention." — Mary & Richard Corliss, in Time Magazine A comprehensive analysis of the global financial crisis of 2008, thru exhaustive research and extensive interviews with key financial insiders, politicians, journalists & academics • Co-produced, written & directed by Charles Ferguson; narrated by Matt Damon; featuring Congressman Barney Frank, Raghuram Rajan, Nouriel Roubini, George Soros, Eliot Spitzer, Paul Volcker, many others; won Oscar for Best Documentary Feature, D.G.A. & W.G.A. Awards, New York Film Critics Circle Award Sony Pictures Classics widescreen color DVD [3/2011] for $14.99 credits at IMDb • official movie site |
"Soros" documentary feature [Abramarama/Vital Pictures Aug 2019]
 | 85-minute docufilm about billionaire George Soros, who is one of the most influential and controversial figures of our time, and his battle against the rising tide of authoritarianism around the world • Co-produced by Priscilla Cohen; co-produced & directed by Jesse Dylan; music by Federico Jusid; featuring Alexander Soros, daughter Andrea Soros Colombel, Jonathan Soros, Robert Soros, Behrouz Afagh, Shaharzad Akbar, Akwe Amosu, Kofi Annan, Hrvoje Batinic, Prince Zeid bin Ra’ad, Endre Bojtár, Leon Botstein, Geoffrey Canada, Tucker Carlson, Istvan Deak, Nadine Epstein, Patrick Gaspard, Róza Hodosán, Sherrilyn Ifill, Gordana Knež-evic, Stephen Kotkin, Ivan Krastev, Jeri Laber, Annette Laborey, Allan Little, Lord Mark Malloch-Brown, Vera Mayer, Mary-Jane Morifi, Ethan Nadelmann, Aryeh Neier, Evan Newmark, Haris Pašovic, Kemal Pervanic, Istvan Rev, Anthony Romero, Kenneth Roth, Amartya Sen, Laura Silber, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Bryan Stevenson, Joseph Stiglitz, Ethan Zuckerman, and George Soros
DVD/Blu-ray not yet available • credits at IMDb • official movie site • movie entry at Wikipedia watch official trailer [11/2020 upload; 2:10] online at YouTube |
Dec 2020 interview of Jesse Dylan in Moviemaker Magazine
Companies & Organizations
Soros Fund Management [est. 1969]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soros_Fund_Management
son? Robert Soros stepped down as deputy chairman & president in June 2017.
The Soros Fund [est. 1973] renamed The Quantum Fund [when?]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Group_of_Funds
The George Soros Fund [est. ??]
The George Soros Fund recently bought 53,000 shares in Monsanto Company, Inc. [est. 1901].
Central European University in Budapest - which he founded in 1991
Open Society Foundations {orig 1984, name changed 8/2010}
formerly Open Society Institute [est. April 1993 in USA]
Aryeh Neier served as president of OSI/OSF from 1993 to 2012; Christopher Stone served as president of OSF from 2012 to 2017;
Patrick Gaspard serves as president of OSF since January 2018.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Society_Foundations
ranked as distant second-largest private philanthropy budget in the United States {$1.2 billion}, after the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation {$3.9 billion}.
Works About George Soros
"Invest First, Investigate Later: And 23 Other Trading Secrets of George Soros, the Legendary Investor" [June 1996] by Robert Slater
http://www.amazon.com/Invest-First-Investigate-Later-Legendary/dp/0786309946/
 | "SOROS: The Unauthorized Biography - The Life, Times and Trading Secrets of The World's Greatest Investor" [1997] by Robert Slater
McGraw-Hill Education pb [undated] out of print/used McGraw-Hill Education 9x6 hardcover [5/97] for $26.00 |
 | "Money Masters of Our Time" [orig 1994, rev 2000] by John Train Author provides new and updated appraisals of the investment techniques and methods of acknowledged 'money masters', including Warren Buffett, Paul Cabot, Philip Carret, Philip Fisher, Benjamin Graham, Mark Lightbrown, Peter Lynch, John Neff, T. Rowe Price, Richard Rainwater, Julian Robertson, Jim Rogers, George Soros, Michael Steinhardt, John Templeton, Ralph Wanger, and Robert Wilson Harper 8x5¼ pb [5/2003] for $10.65 HarperBusiness hardcover [8/2000] out of print/used |
 | "Soros: The Life and Times of A Messianic Billionaire" [2002] by Michael T. Kaufman Kindle Edition from Vintage [9/2010] for $10.99 Vintage 8x5¼ pb [3/2003] for $16.95 Knopf deckle-edge 9½x6½ hardcover [2/2002] for $50.75 {sic} |
 | "The Winning Investment Habits of Warren Buffett & George Soros: Harness The Investment Genius of The World's Richest Investors" [2006] by Mark Tier St. Martin's Griffin 8¼x5½ pb [8/2006] for $11.31 Kogan Page Ltd. 9¼x6 hardcover [3/2006] out of print/used |
"George Soros: An Illustrated Biography of the World's Most Powerful Investor [Mar 17, 2006] by Kaoru Kurotani
http://www.amazon.com/George-Soros-Illustrated-Biography-Powerful/dp/0470821809/
"Soros: The Life, Ideas, and Impact of the World's Most Influential Investor [Jan 9, 2009] by Robert Slater
http://www.amazon.com/Soros-Impact-Worlds-Influential-Investor/dp/0071608443/
 | "The Sages: Warren Buffett, George Soros, Paul Volcker, and The Maelstrom of Markets" [2009] by Charles R. Morris author "brilliantly analyzes the records of these men, distilling their wisdom and experience" Kindle Edition from PublicAffairs [6/2009] for $2.99 PublicAffairs 8½x5½ pb [6/2010] for $16.99 PublicAffairs 8½x5¾ hardcover [6/2009] for $10.14 see also Spirit of America Bookstore's Warren Buffett Page see also Maison d'Être Philosophy Bookstore's Paul A. Volcker Page |
"It's Not Easy Being God: The Real George Soros [Oct 20, 2010] by Dr Joy Tiz
http://www.amazon.com/Its-Not-Easy-Being-God-ebook/dp/B004HYHJQ8/
http://www.amazon.com/Its-Not-Easy-Being-God/dp/0615414737/
"The Shadow Party: How George Soros, Hillary Clinton, and Sixties Radicals Seized Control of the Democratic Party" [Nov 2010]
by David Horowitz & Richard Poe
http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Party-Hillary-Radicals-Democratic/dp/1595551034/
"From Shadow Party to Shadow Government: George Soros and the Effort to Radically Change America [1/2011] by John Perazzo & David Horowitz
http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Party-Government-Radically-America-ebook/dp/B0058ORN08/
"Masquerade: The Incredible True Story of How George Soros' Father Outsmarted the Gestapo" [March 2011] by Tivadar Soros
http://www.amazon.com/Masquerade-Incredible-George-Outsmarted-Gestapo-ebook/dp/B004VX3DDS/
http://www.amazon.com/Masquerade-Incredible-George-Outsmarted-Gestapo/dp/1611450241/
http://www.amazon.com/Masquerade-Dancing-Around-Occupied-Hungary/dp/1559705817/
 | "Billionaire! How The Ultra-Rich Built Their Fortunes Through Good and Evil, and What You Can Learn From Them" [2011] by Robert Pittenger, PhD
Barrelhead Media 8½x5½ pb [3/2011] for $18.95 Profiles include: Virgin brands founder Richard Branson, Warren Buffett, Netscape founder Jim Clark, Oracle (software) founder Larry Ellison, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, imprisoned Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, E.D.S. founder Ross Perot, FedEx founder Fred Smith, financier George Soros, Martha Stewart, Donald Trump, and cable TV founder & eco-rancher Ted Turner |
"The Philanthropy of George Soros: Building Open Societies [May 10, 2011] by Chuck Sudetic with essay by George Soros
http://www.amazon.com/Philanthropy-George-Soros-Building-Societies-ebook/dp/B004THDSTK/
http://www.amazon.com/Philanthropy-George-Soros-Building-Societies/dp/1586488228/
"Selling Short on America: George Soros (Book 1 of 4: Robert George Books [Aug 3, 2016] by Robert George
http://www.amazon.com/Selling-Short-America-George-Soros-ebook/dp/B01JQSD7JC/
http://www.amazon.com/Selling-Short-America-George-Soros/dp/1536914096/
"The Soros Conspiracy: George Soros - Puppet Master (The Conspiracy Series Book 1) by Peter Young | Feb 17, 2017
http://www.amazon.com/Soros-Conspiracy-George-Puppet-Master-ebook/dp/B06VXKD6ZD/
36 pages of factless New World Order conspiracy silliness
"Reflexivity and Economics: George Soros's Theory of reflexivity and the methodology of economic science" [4/2018]
by John B. Davis & D. Wade Hands
http://www.amazon.com/Reflexivity-Economics-reflexivity-methodology-economic-ebook/dp/B07CHX3X75/
http://www.amazon.com/Reflexivity-Economics-reflexivity-methodology-economic/dp/0367030071/
http://www.amazon.com/Reflexivity-Economics-reflexivity-methodology-economic/dp/1138203483/
"George Soros: Earn Your First Billion Dollars Using The Proven Investing Strategies of The Man Behind
The Alchemy Of Finance" [Sept 2018] by Peter Parish
http://www.amazon.com/George-Soros-Billion-Investing-Strategies-ebook/dp/B07H711YCW/
http://www.amazon.com/George-Soros-Billion-Investing-Strategies/dp/1720178755/
"Behind The Curtain: Inside The Network of Progressive Billionaires and Their Campaign To Undermine Democracy [2/2019] by Jeff Reynolds
http://www.amazon.com/Behind-Curtain-Progressive-Billionaires-Undermine-ebook/dp/B07M7L8D5F/
http://www.amazon.com/Behind-Curtain-Progressive-Billionaires-Undermine/dp/1682617076/
 | "The Influence of Soros: Politics, Power, and The Struggle For An Open Society" [2020] by Emily Tamkin "A seasoned journalist probes one of the right-wing’s favorite targets ... to explore the genesis of his influence and the truth of the conspiracies that surround him" Kindle Edition from Harper [7/2020] for $12.99 Harper Paperbacks pb [DUE June 2021] for $17.99 Harper 9x6 hardcover [7/2020] for $10.15 |
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Family & Friends
György Schwartz was born in Budapest, Hungary in August 1930; family changed their name to Soros in 1936; George left communist Hungary in 1947 for England,
where he graduated from the London School of Economics; in 1956 he moved to the United States, and accumulated a large fortune through investment.
father Tivadar Schwartz/Soros [1893-1968] was a lawyer - married 1924 / Esperanto name was Teodoro Svarc
mother Erzsébet/Elizabeth Szücs Schwartz/Soros [] came from a family that owned a thriving silk shop - married 1924
older brother engineer Paul Schwartz/Soros [1926-2013] - defected to USA in 1948
sister-in-law Daisy Schlenger Soros [b. 1929] - married 1951
nephew investment banker Peter Soros - lives in England
nephew actor-producer Jeffrey Soros - lives in California
first wife Annaliese Witschak - married 9/1960, divorced 1983
3 children
second wife Susan Weber Soros - married June 1983, divorced 2005
2 children
current wife Tamiko Bolton Soros - married 9/2013
James Beeland 'Jim' Rogers Jr. [b. 1942] - Soros business partner 1969-80
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Rogers
http://www.jimrogers.com/
more details on the "Economics or Else!' Pages at Maison d'Être Philosophy Bookstore
George Soros was mentored by philosopher Karl Popper [1902-94] at London School of Economics, circa 1947-54
Adversaries
one of Soros’ biggest adversaries is Hungary’s conservative prime minister Viktor Orbán
who is president of Fidesz, a national conservative political party, 1993-2000 and 2003-present
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