George Soros | Philanthropist or Bond Villain?

https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/george-soros

Under George Soros’s leadership, the Open Society Foundations support individuals and organizations across the globe fighting for freedom of expression, accountable government, and societies that promote justice and equality.

George Soros experienced ethnic and political intolerance firsthand. Born in Hungary in 1930, he lived through the Nazi occupation of 1944–1945, which resulted in the murder of over 500,000 Hungarian Jews. His own Jewish family survived by securing false identity papers, concealing their backgrounds, and helping others do the same. Soros later recalled that “not only did we survive, but we managed to help others.”

“1944, the year of the German occupation, was my formative experience. Instead of submitting to our fate, we resisted an evil force that was much stronger than we were—yet we prevailed.” —George Soros

Over the course of his career, he has given over 64% of his wealth. Sounds like a great guy right?

Quotes from George Soros
“I fancied myself as some kind of god”
 “If truth be known I carried some rather potent messianic fantasies with me from childhood which I felt I had to control otherwise they might get me in trouble”
“It is a sort of disease when you consider yourself some kind of god, the creator of everything but I feel comfortable about it now since I began to live it out”


Well there are 2 camps the one mentioned above and this one:

Play a clip from Pad about the evil George Soros.

George Soros was born in Budapest, Hungary, on August 12, 1930, and his birth name was Gyorgy Schwartz, but his dad changed his name to make it sound less Jewish.
After the Nazis occupied Hungary in March of 1944, they prohibited Jewish children from going to school and forced them to work. George and his family avoided being sent to concentration camps by buying documents that said they were Christians. His family was fairly well off and had connections, so they were able to do such a thing. When George was 14 he began pretending to be the Christian godson of a Hungarian government official named Baumbach who himself had a Jewish wife in hiding. One time, he brought George with him while he completed an inventory of a Jewish family’s confiscated estate.
By 1947, Soros had his heart set on England, and he soon moved there.
 
Soros got a master of Science in philosophy in 1954 at the School of Economics. Karl Popper was his tutor in his final year of school and had the biggest influence on Soros with his open society ideology which is nothing can be known with absolute certainty so the default should always be a more open society with lots of different ideas for a better understanding. He went back sometime later and got his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of London, still right out of college he could not find work or success nor did he have any connections. Eventually, he finally landed a job at Singer & Friedlander after writing to every bank manager in London. He probably got that job because one of the managing directors was Hungarian. Soros started out as a clerk and worked his way to arbitrage, which is basically buying and selling assets in different markets. Soros got pretty good at this and moved to New York City in 1956 working as a arbitrage trader for the firm F.M. Mayer. 1959 Three years later, he began working at another firm, Wertheim & Co. It was around this time he began a relationship with Annaliese Witschak and married in 1960 and eventually would have 3 children together, Robert, Andrea, and Jonathan. So at Wertheim & Co Soros worked as an analyst of European securities. It was during this time that he developed the theory of reflexivity in markets, which basically says that markets can be irrational and investors don’t base their decisions on reality but instead on their perceptions of reality. Then in 1963, Soros began work at another firm Arnold & S. Bleichroeder now as a vice president. In his first years there he was more about working on philosophy dissertation than making money. However, in 1966 the firm let him experiment with a fund of $100,000 and the account performed very well. Because of its success, the firm let him manage a small investment fund called the First Eagle Fund. In 1969 he used $4 million to set up a hedge fund named the Double Eagle Fund. (What the Heck is a hedge fund) Well they are complicated and boring but they make investors a lot of freaking money. Soros was very new to this type of investment even though hedge funds have been around for about a couple of decades. They are basically investments with client money in alternative investments to either beat a market or provide a hedge against unforeseen market changes. Because all the money is pooled together in a big fund and there are fewer regulations on what to do with the money, they can invest more aggressively so that everyone potentially makes lots more money. Soros learned to do this very well in 1973, the Double Eagle Fund had $12 Million dollars at this time Soros decided to leave Arnhold & S. Bleichroeder and start his own hedge fund called the Soros Fund together with his friend Jim Rogers, by the time they renamed it the Quantum Fund it had grown to be around $12 million dollars, that was in 1978. By this time Soros had decided that it wasn’t enough to make a bunch of money he also wanted to give it all away. Now that he had a small fortune, he established the Open Society Fund in 1979. He started on his mission of an open society and looked to help South Africa which still had a system of racial segregation simply known as apartheid. He believed he could end apartheid with education and began giving out scholarships to help black students attend college there. In 1981, the Quantum Fund was worth almost $400 million dollars, and Soros had a personal fortune of $100 million dollars. By the end of 1981 after a 22% market drop in value combined with lots of folks cashing out the fund was only worth $200 Million but that of course did not phase Soros at all. For the rest of the decade, he would consistently gamble aggressively with his assets. As his ambitions grew his marriage suffered and was divorced in 1983. Soon after he would marry a historian Susan Weber and would have 2 more children. In the late 80s, Soros began betting against currencies he made hundreds of millions of dollars by shorting the U.S. dollar, and by 1987 Soros was well known to investors around the world. He started secretly funding governments around the world with his open society fund. 1989 He got in trouble for insider trading but was not punished for it for some time later. This takes us to September 16th, 1992 known as Black Wednesday (pass this to Joey)

In April 1993 he started the Open Society Institute later named and is still to this day the Open Society foundations

In the 2000’s Soros set his eyes on the criminal justice system in the US. as he was always against the war on drugs thinking it was a medical issue, not a criminal issue.  
In 2004 Soros put his sights on the political arena thinking that the direction that George W. Bush was taking the country and the world with the war on terror was a big mistake so for the first time Soros picked a side in American politics donating millions to defeat Bush. This is when a lot of American conservatives started to hate him. He also spent millions trying to defeat Donald Trump in both 2016 and 2020 elections.    

In 2005 he divorced his 2nd wife and for a while he just had alot of girlfriends that were a lot younger than him. In 2013 he married his 3rd and current wife Tamiko Bolton he was 83 she was 41. That same year the Quantum Fund made $5.5 Billion making it the most successful hedge fund in history. To date, the fund has generated over $40 billion. Today George Soros is 93 years old. Despite giving away most of his money, he still has a net worth of more than $8.6 billion making him still one of the richest people in the world.  
George Soros seems to be one of the most hated men in the world. So why is he hated?

• Antisemitic – European nationalist leaders attacked him because he spent millions against them,  You can’t deny the fact that antisemitism is related to the hate of him when you hear that he is Jewish all the time. And he also gets crap from the Jewish folks too since he has consistently criticized the Israeli government. 
• Supporting politicians across the world who are way on the left. 
• The 60 min interview where he had no remorse in helping the Nazis take away Jewish property. 
• He is an Atheist 

So basically George Soros is just another billionaire trying to pull the puppet strings.