Economics
George Soros vs The Bank of England, Round II: Matthew Lynn
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George Soros scored big betting against the British pound in 1992, earning $1 billion and a lot of ill will from poor losers at the Bank of England.
Lately things haven't gone so well and the financier has turned into a Jeremiah, warning a Harvard audience about capitalism -- ``a bigger danger to an open society than socialism'' -- and describing Russia and Ukraine as ``disaster areas'' on a swing through the region.