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Soros and Democracy

By Jonathan Simor

(Joel Saget, Agence France Press, Getty Images)Today's New York Times Business section leads with an elegant black and white photo of the 77 year old face of George Soros, the global financier and philanthropist, with the story below headlined, The Face of a Prophet. The article profiles the apparently widening gap between the Hungarian born Holocaust survivor's amazing financial acumen which continues to earn billions of dollars in the face of global economic problems, and his seemingly doomed quest for respect as a major economic theorist. His most recent book, his 10th, analyzes the sources of the current economic crisis, what he considers the worst of his lifetime (which includes the Great Depression).Whatever the fate of Soros' economic theories, history will likely recall him for his striking commitment to democracy on a global scale...continue to full post

Full post as published by Governing Through Crime on April 11, 2008 (boomark / email).