Person

George Soros

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Born:

“György Schwartz” in 1930

Nationality:

Hungarian

American (Citizenship)

Occupation:

Hedge Fund Manager

Net Worth:

$25.2 billion 94

References

  1. “George Soros.” Forbes. December 1, 2016. Accessed February 04, 2017. http://www.forbes.com/profile/george-soros/.
Main Philanthropy:

Open Societies Foundations

Residence:

Katonah, New York

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George Soros is a Hungarian-born American investor, author, left-of-center political donor, and philanthropist. Outside of his political giving and advocacy, he is best known for a set of currency trades that earned him the moniker “the man who broke the Bank of England.”1234567

After escaping totalitarian rule in Hungary, Soros used his survival experiences to acquire wealth through hedge funds and other financial vehicles, becoming one of the richest men in the world.89 While his original philanthropic and political focus was former Soviet-bloc states, Soros now advocates for regulations to expand the role of the federal government in the United States, ostensibly to reduce market instability.1011

Soros is one of the United States’ top political and advocacy donors, spending billions on campaigns, think tanks, start-ups, and nonprofits that promote his agenda. His principal philanthropic network centers on the Open Society Foundations (OSF) and Foundation to Promote Open Society (FPOS), two multi-billion-dollar left-of-center advocacy grantmaking foundations. Through OSF and FPOS Soros has funded the vast majority of the most prominent left-progressive advocacy groups in the United States.121314 He also created the Institute for New Economic Thinking to promote his unorthodox left-progressive economic policy viewpoints.  15

Early Life

Born in 1930 in Budapest, Hungary, George Soros was a native speaker of the international language, Esperanto.1617 George’s father, Tivadar, learned survival skills while escaping from a Soviet prison camp and fighting in Russia’s revolutionary war, eventually returning to Nazi-occupied Budapest to be with his family.8  While raising a Jewish family in hostile land, Tivadar’s survival skills were passed on to George Soros while he was a teenager.8 Soros says his father’s finest moment was printing false identity documents for Jewish family and friends during the Nazi occupation – free for those who could not afford it, and exorbitant pricing for those who could.3 Soros considers survival in German occupied territory to be the formative years of his life.3 In 1987, Soros compared his survival instincts to his investment strategy, writing, “I react to events in the marketplace as an animal reacts to events in the jungle.”18

After Hungary

After escaping Hungary, Soros moved to England to attend the London School of Economics in 1947.19 No longer facing the threat of war, Soros found life in London to be dull, became fascinated with the teachings of the philosopher Karl Popper and dreamed of one day becoming a famous philosopher himself.3 Soros was dissatisfied, however, because he had trouble finding an audience to hear his philosophical musings.3 Because he was a native speaker of the barely spoken, constructed international language, young Soros boarded with the London Esperanto society.17 Having finished his exit exams one year early, Soros spent the remainder of his studies under the tutelage of Popper and started developing the groundwork for the theory that would become the focus of his life, his theory of “reflexivity”—his explanation for why markets can at times “tend toward excesses” rather than equilibrium.17

Career

Currencies Exchange

After what he describes as “a few false starts”—bouncing between jobs restaurants, railways, and tourist stands—Soros found work in the currencies exchange in London and eventually moved to New York City in 1956, where he became a financial worker specializing in European markets. 8 According to the New York Times, Soros decided to move to New York after a “lackluster” decade in London, and was ultimately hired by an investment firm. 20 He became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1961. 21 In 1963, the Interest Equalization Act effectively ended purchases of foreign securities, which in turn put an end to the analyst niche in which Soros had specialized.8 Subsequently, Soros took three years off to write a book about his philosophical theories, which he felt would eventually give him an edge in the market. 8

In failed efforts to test his theories, Soros grew increasingly detached from the market, gave up on the book, and decided not to publish it. 3 Instead, he got back into stock trading, taking a job at a hedge fund in New York City.22 At first, he found difficulty in adjusting to corporate American culture, and claims that the only reason he was able to land the job in the first place was because one of the managers was also Hungarian.22 Soros found a better fit with the company once he began bringing in profits, and his employer helped start Soros’ own investment vehicle after three years.22 In 1969, Soros founded Quantum Fund in Manhattan, which later became one of the world’s most successful hedge funds. 20

“Breaking the Bank of England”

Over the years, Soros’ hedge funds have gone through a series of name changes and various incarnations, with Soros Fund Management and the Quantum Group of Funds being the most well-known. 23 With the help of Stanley Druckenmiller, Soros’ Quantum Group of Funds engineered and executed trades dealing with billions of dollars per day— not without controversy.11

Druckenmiller engineered a plan to “short” the British pound in 1992 when (together with Soros), he “broke the Bank of England.”24 The only role that Soros played was “pushing [Druckenmiller] to take a gigantic position.”25 Soros invested $10 billion in the operation, netting his Quantum Fund a $1 billion profit.2627 During an interview in 1994, Druckenmiller said, “If there is one thing I’ve learned from [Soros], it’s that when you’re right and you really feel it, you can’t have enough.”28

Global Financial Crises

By the year 2000, Soros had been accused by some of causing financial crises in Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan, and Russia.11 In a 1998 interview on CBS’ “60 Minutes,” Soros said of his investment activities, “I am actually trying to do the right thing, but sometimes what I do, it has negative unintended negative consequence, as it did in Russia.”11 According to Soros, his theory of reflexivity focuses on “the gap between perception and reality,” which he claims to have “explored and exploited.”28

By the time of its closing, Soros’ Quantum Fund generated a yearly average return for investors of 30 percent.22 In 2011, Soros shut down the fund after the implementation of the Dodd-Frank financial regulation law, but returned to the market with a privately-owned family-office.2329 While Soros uses the term “political philanthropy” to describe his programs that combine politics with philanthropy, he has said that “people should separate their role as market participants from their role as political participants”.30

Cryptocurrencies

In January 2018 Soros called the digital currency, or cryptocurrency, a “bubble” because digital coins are too volatile to function as reliable currencies.31 On April 6, 2018, however, it was announced that Soros Fund Management had received “interal approval” to trade in cryptocurrency.32

Political Ideology and Business

In 2009, Soros claimed to be able to separate his political ideology from his investment practices, saying, “I have practiced what I preach.”30 But, while in 2010, Soros said that gold was “the ultimate bubble,” in the spring before the 2016 presidential election, Soros followed the lead of his former hedge-fund manager, Stanley Druckenmiller, and invested in gold, while divesting from financial markets.333435363738 After the 2016 election, a stock rally ensued, boosting the Dow Jones Industrial Average over 19,000, and Soros lost nearly $1 billion because of his bearish positions.3940

Philanthropy

Soros has spent more of his money on what he calls “political philanthropy” as he has grown older.30 In 2011, Mr. Soros’ Open Society Foundations spent $835 million, intended to “promote the values of open society, human rights, and transparency,” and spent another $185 million in 2013.210 All in all, Soros claims that he has, “given away over $12 billion to date.”14  Some of Soros’ philanthropic projects are for-profit; in 2016, Soros pledged $500 million for economic programs to help refugees, mostly in Europe, where he planned to help start-ups and establish businesses owned by migrants.13

Open Society Foundations

Also see Open Society Foundations (Nonprofit)

Now active in 70 countries, Open Society Foundations (OSF) was founded in the early 1980s and had the intention of propagating democracy and post-Communist prosperity in former Soviet-bloc states.10 Financial ties between the Black Lives Matter movement and Soros have been reported, as well as financial ties to Occupy Wall Street through intermediaries like the Tides Center.4142 The network of Soros funded organizations indirectly touches 30 media organizations.43

The day after the 2017 presidential inauguration, the “Women’s March” took to the streets of Washington, D.C.44 Between 2000 and 2014, Soros donated to 40 of the groups affiliated with the march, his donations totaling at least $89.9 million.45

In a 2016 essay, Soros wrote, “My success in the financial markets has given me a greater degree of independence than most other people.”7 Soros continued, “This obliges me to take stands on controversial issues when others cannot, and taking such positions has itself been a source of satisfaction.”7 He finished,  “In short, my philanthropy has made me happy.”7

Political Activities

George Soros spent over $18 million on political campaigns affiliated with the Democratic Party in 2016, $24 million on left-of-center Super PACs over the last few years—including $7 million on Hillary Clinton’s primary PAC, Priorities USA—and partnered with other donors in a $15 million campaign to mobilize specific demographics.46474849 In 2013, Soros had agreed to become co-chair for the Clinton-aligned Ready For Hillary Super PAC, as well as investing over $2 million in a left-of-center data analytics company, Catalist.5051 After Hillary Clinton’s defeat in the 2016 Presidential election, Soros met for three days with elite donors and Democrats to come up with new plans.52 Soros also spent $2 million in 2016 to help defeat then-Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio (R) as part of a nationwide push for criminal justice reform.53

In the 2012 election, Soros announced that he would contribute $1 million each to the voter mobilization group America Votes and the Democratic super PAC American Bridge 21st Century.54 According to the Center for Responsive Politics, Soros gave American Bridge 21st Century $2 million in the 2015-2016 election cycle.55

In the first three months of 2020, George Soros had put $28.3 million into various efforts to support the Democratic side in the 2020 election. Soros is using his Democracy PAC to distribute these payments, a new super PAC he launched in 2019 for the purpose of handing a victory to the Democrats in the upcoming presidential election. 5657 Of the $28.3 million, $10 million went to Win Justice for its programs against voter disenfranchisement, namely to mobilize “people of color and other infrequent voters” that might be affected by states choosing to suspend in-person voting come November due to the coronavirus pandemic. 58 The voters that Win Justice talk to are “are among those who will most deeply and disproportionately affected by the upheaval the Covid-19 pandemic appears likely to cause in November,” said a Soros spokesperson. 58

Soros also gave $5 million to left-of-center PAC Priorities USA and $7 million to the Democratic Senate Majority PAC. Soros’ early 2020 giving also targeted several feminist groups, including EMILY’s List and Supermajority. 5659

In August 2021, Soros contributed $1 million to aide California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) in his recall election against Republican challengers like conservative radio personality Larry Elder and transgender activist Kaitlynn Jenner. 60

2022 Political Contributions

According to the Washington Post and the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonprofit which tracks political spending, George Soros spent $128.5 million on poltical contributions during the 2022 midterm elections, making the largest contributor to political action committees (PACs) in the Unites States during that time. 61 62 Soros’s largest expense was a $125 million contribution to Democracy PAC II, the second iteration of the Democracy PAC, which Soros created in 2019 to act as a warehouse for his political contributions. Soros also contributed $1 million to the Color Of Change PAC and $825,000 to the Democratic Grassroots Victory Fund.

Funds from Democracy PAC II were then distributed to numerous other Democrat-aligned PACs during the 2022 election cycle. As of November 2022, Federal Election Commission (FEC) records showed that the Senate Majority PAC (SMP), controlled by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), received $5 million, and One Georgia Inc, the authorized PAC of Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams (D-GA), received $2.5 million. The labor union aligned Care in Action PAC also received $1 million, as did the House Majority PAC, the Vote Rev PAC, and the Democratic Association of Secretaries of State (DASS). 63 64 65

Other PACs receiving support from Democracy PAC II included the Main Justice & Public Safety PAC and the Texas Justice & Public Safety PAC, which supported the campaigns of left-wing District Attorney candidates. Together, the Maine and Texas Justice &  Public Safety PACs received over $500,000 from Democracy PAC II while the Justice & Public Safety PAC, which serves as a national leadership hub for the Justice & Public Safety PAC network, received another $400,000 directly from Soros. 64 66 The Youth Progressive Action Catalyst PAC, the North Carolina based State Victory Action PAC, and the Black PAC also received $250,000 each. 65

2023 Wisconsin State Supreme Court Election

During the 2023 Wisconsin State Supreme Court Election, state financial records show that Soros donated $1,00,000 to the Democratic Party of Wisconsin on February 22, 2023. Between February 7 and March 20, 2023, the Democratic Party of Wisconsin donated roughly $8.7 million to the campaign for Democratic-backed Milwaukee County Judge Janet Protasiewicz. 67 68

Funding Attorney Campaigns

Starting in 2015, Soros began funding political action committees, such as the Justice and Public Safety PAC, that contribute to the campaigns of left-wing district attorneys. 6970 These included Illinois State Attorney Kimberly Foxx, Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner, and Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot. 71 His contributions have supported these attorneys who seek to reduce theft-related prosecution. In 2017, State Attorney Kimberly Foxx was elected into office after receiving financial support from the Illinois Justice & Public Safety PAC that received $400,000 from Soros. Foxx, whose jurisdiction includes Chicago, announced that her office sought to quit prosecuting shoplifters unless they possessed a record of over 10 previous felony convictions or had stolen more than $1,000 worth of goods. Similarly, Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot announced in 2019 that his campaign received national funding through Soros and said that his office would no longer prosecute individuals for the theft of items valued under $750.

The office of Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner states that refusing to prosecute certain crimes such as public camping, offering or soliciting sex, and public urination is working to “decriminalize poverty and homelessness.” Soros contributed $1.45 million to a super PAC that supported District Attorney Larry Krasner in the Democratic primary in May 2017. 71

Ideological Platform

The Open Society Foundations and the Central European University were created by Soros to provide a platform for his ideology.72 Soros is also involved in groups such as Global Witness, the International Crisis Group, the European Council on Foreign Relations, and the Institute for New Economic Thinking.72

Through the Open Society Foundations Soros donates to a number of left-of-center organizations, including the Center for American Progress, a policy think-tank that was formed by Hillary Clinton’s former campaign manager, John Podesta.73 Soros was one of the early supporters of then-Senator Barack Obama in his first presidential run, after Soros failed in his 2004 backing of then-U.S. Senator John Kerry (D-Massachusetts), to whose mobilization efforts Soros had donated $27 million in an attempt to defeat President George W. Bush.4248

In his 1987 book, Soros said, “I opted for Open Society, but the choice was not without qualification”. His qualm was that, “each form of social organization was found wanting in something that could be found only in its opposite: totalitarian society lacked freedom; Open Society lacked stability.”74 Soros says he was drawn to Karl Popper’s term “open societies”— societies wherein free exchange of ideas is allowed— after experiencing totalitarian oppression by both Hitler’s Germany and Soviet Russia in World War II-era and early Cold War-era Budapest, Hungary.3

Soros claims his political beliefs are also rooted in his philosophical theory of “reflexivity.”30 Soros wrote of the relationship between freedom and stability in politics, “Given our innate bias, a stable equilibrium between the two is just as unlikely to be attained as a stable equilibrium in a free market.”74 Also writing, “Sentiment is likely to swing in one direction or the other.”74

In a 2009 lecture on capitalism’s relationship with open societies, Mr. Soros said, “The market mechanism may be flawed but the political process is even more so.”30 George Soros claims to have an “aversion to bureaucracy” and he has concerns “An international central bank would make bureaucracy inescapable.” Soros believes that, “Permanent and perfect solutions are beyond our reach.”75 He has concluded that “Temporary solutions are much better than none at all.”75

Soros has argued that improperly regulated credit lies at the root of economic instability, saying, “Whether stock markets would prove inherently unstable if there were no credit involved remains an open question, because stock-market booms are always associated with credit expansion.”76 He concluded, “Excessive instability can be prevented only by some sort of regulation”.76  Soros supported the Occupy Wall Street movement because he was not happy with the bank bailouts during the economic crisis of 2009.42 He believed the banks being bailed out should have been nationalized, or at least regulated, in return for TARP funds.42 He warned that bailing out banks would “provide artificial life support for the banks at considerable expense to the taxpayer.”42

State Capitalism and Communism

In 2003, Soros claimed to have been “involved in the revolutionary process that led to the collapse of communism.”77 He said he participated by “Establishing a network of foundations throughout the communist world.”77  Soros has said that the Western economic system of what he calls “international capitalism” will also collapse, however, because, “International capitalism in its present form has proven itself inherently unstable because it lacks adequate regulation.”78 Also, he said international capitalism “favors the haves over the have nots.”78

Soros claims that the Chinese quasi-capitalistic model of economics, what he calls “state capitalism,” is a novel and even perhaps desirable approach to economics. 78 In 2009, Soros said, “The rise of China offers a fundamentally different form of economic organization than the current international financial system.”78 He followed by saying that, “We are at the end of an era, but we are not fully aware of it.” Soros believes that multi-laterally restricted world markets are the only mechanism for insuring global economic stability, because, “a system of bilateral relations is liable to generate conflicts between states.”78 In 2012, Soros said that free-market globalization had created an inherently unstable financial system that “grew like a cancer.”79

In 2021, however, Soros appeared to change his position on Chinese “state capitalism,” penning an op-ed for the Wallstreet Journal criticizing Blackrock for its decision to launch a mutual fund in China, and its recommendation that investors triple their holdings of Chinese assets.80 According to Soros, further investment in Chinese markets would be a mistake because the Chinese government’s total control over private property, a feature of the Chinese system of “state capitalism,” would allow private investment to be seized by the state at any time to increase the Chinese Communist Party’s power and crush opposition. 80

Soros wrote that Blackrock had foolishly bought into president Xi Xin Ping’s promises and had “taken the statements of Mr. Xi’s regime at face value. [Blackrock] has drawn a distinction between state-owned enterprises and privately owned companies, but that is far from reality. The regime regards all Chinese companies as instruments of the one-party state.” He also categorized the Chinese system as oppressive and dangerous to U.S. national security, writing that “the U.S. and China are engaged in a life and death conflict between two systems of governance: repressive and democratic.” 80

American Global Power

Soros is skeptical of the role the United States plays in global affairs, having said, “It is even more important for the sake of a peaceful world that the United States should find its proper place in a new world order.”78 And having also said, “A declining superpower losing both political and economic dominance but still preserving military supremacy is a dangerous mix.”78

Supporters of Soros’s activities promoting liberal democracy in post-Communist European states have cautioned that his aggressive partisanship in favor of liberal Democrats in the United States has limited his and his Foundations’ ability to effectively promote nonpartisan democratic practice abroad.81

Controversies

Religion

Soros is of Jewish ancestry and escaped persecution by the Nazi-collaborationist Hungarian regime during the Second World War. He has identified as an atheist in his personal beliefs.82 Soros’s ethno-religious background have made him a target of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories both in the United States and in Eastern Europe, where his Open Society Foundations have been exceptionally active.81

Supporters of Soros’s American political advocacy activities have attempted to characterize the vast majority of right-leaning criticisms of those activities as examples of anti-Semitism, despite an absence of evidence that mainstream right-of-center criticisms of Soros’s partisanship and ideology arise from anti-Semitism. 81

Right-of-center and pro-Israel Jewish opponents of Soros’s political activities including Trump 2016 campaign advisor and later Trump administration U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman have criticized Soros for his hostility to Israel and Israeli government policies, with Friedman at one point saying that Soros “has done more to vilify the state of Israel and to fund anti-Israel propaganda machines than almost any individual on the face of the earth.”83

Civil right organizations like the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) have described critics of Soros as being driven by far-right, anti-Semitic ideologies. 84 However, the state of Israel seems to have pushed back against this notion in 2017 when the Hungarian government under Prime Minister Viktor Orban ran a billboard campaign featuring statements such as “Let’s not allow Soros to have the last laugh.” 85 The move was in response to Soros’s advocacy of increasing refugee resettlement within the European Union. 86 Israel’s ambassador to Hungary initially denounced the campaign, saying that it “evokes sad memories but also sows hatred and fear.” 85 Hours later, the Israeli foreign ministry clarified that

“In no way was the statement meant to delegitimize criticism of George Soros, who continuously undermines Israels democratically elected governments by funding organizations that defame the Jewish state and seek to deny it the right to defend itself.” 87

Accusations of Sexism

In June 2018, Soros expressed his disappointment with U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) for pressuring disgraced Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) to resign office following allegations of sexual harassment and assault. In return, Gillibrand’s supporters accused Soros of sexism.88

According to the Washington Post, Soros indicated that Gillibrand, due to her pressure on Franken, is the one potential 2020 Democratic presidential candidate that “he hopes does not get the nod” for nomination.89 Gillibrand later responded to Soros in a statement, saying: “If standing up for women who have been wronged makes George Soros mad, that’s on him.”90

Suit Filed by Ex-Girlfriend

In 2011, Brazilian soap opera actress Adriana Ferreyr, who claimed she was in a relationship with Soros between 2006 and 2010, filed a $50 million suit against Soros. Ferreyr’s suit alleged that Soros reneged on his promise to buy her an $1.9 million apartment in New York City as well as for physically assaulting her. A statement released by Soros lawyer William Zabel to BBC News, commented that, “Mr. Soros once had an “on-again, off-again and non-exclusive relationship with Ms. Ferreyr,” 91 but also stated that Ferreyr’s suit is, “riddled with false charges and is obviously an attempt to extract money from my client, who is known to be a very wealthy man.” 91 Soros later countersued Ferreyr in 2013 for defamation and assault, alleging that she had assaulted him and had thrown a glass lamp at him. 92

In 2015, a judge tossed out the lawsuit due to an alleged outburst by Ferreyr. According to an unnamed source for the New York Post, the judge stated, following her outburst, “That’s it. Case dismissed. Your behavior is contemptuous.” 93 According to a lawyer for Soros, she had allegedly assaulted and punched him in the head during his deposition a year prior. 93

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