Investors & Traders · Macro & trading
George Soros
A Holocaust survivor and Karl Popper student who turned a philosophy of fallibility into a trading method. Reflexivity, boom–bust cycles, the Quantum Fund, breaking the Bank of England in 1992, and a philanthropy as controversial as his trades.
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Prereqs: Exchange rates & currency crises; Boom-bust cycles (Markets). Next: Paul Tudor Jones. Sources: Soros' *The Alchemy of Finance* (1987), Sebastian Mallaby's *More Money Than God*, Open Society Foundations lecture series (2009).Next: 1. Life