Tag: George Soros
George SorosSoros tells Germany preparing for “end of the Euro” only worsens the situation
Billionaire investor George Soros said financial markets are concerned other countries will follow Germany’s Bundesbank in girding against the end of the Euro.
Soros says German-driven austerity plans could splinter the European Union
Billionaire investor George Soros said that German-driven austerity plans in Europe risk creating tensions that could splinter the region as it struggles with a debt crisis entering its third year.
Banks and bonds of Italy and Spain need to be protected, warns Soros
Policymakers have lost control of the economic crisis and financial markets are forcing the world into a depression, George Soros said on Friday, urging Europe to create a common Treasury, recapitalize its banks and protect vulnerable states.
Soros predicts Euro crisis could be worse than Lehman Brothers
Billionaire George Soros believes that the current crisis of the Euro zone has the ‘potential to be a lot worse than the Lehman Brothers’ in the US due to the lack of consensus in the European Union to create an authority with enough power to handle this problem.
Soros backs creation of Euro bonds to solve Euro debt crisis; Germany rejects idea
George Soros has backed “Eurobonds” - joint debts of the 17 Euro zone members - to solve the Euro zone debt crisis. Speaking to the BBC, the billionaire investor said if European leaders fail to keep the Euro together, there would be a “really serious global calamity”.
Soros: EU on verge of economic collapse; some countries will have to exit the Euro
US/UK Hungarian born billionaire investor George Soros says a country will eventually exit the Euro zone and urged policymakers on Sunday to come up with a “plan B” that could rescue the European Union from looming economic collapse.
“Revulsion against corruption” partly sparked Libyan revolution, says Soros
Citizens of oil producing nations must see more benefit from their country's national resources, billionaire investor said George Soros interviewed by the BBC. Revolts in Libya were partly the result of “revulsion against a corruption” fed by the misuse of oil money, he added.
Europe Could Fall Apart Sustaining Euro Warns Soros
Billionaire financier George Soros warned on Wednesday that Europe could potentially fall apart because of the “two-speed Europe” of haves and have-nots that is being perpetuated by the reform of the embattled euro.
Soros donates 100 million USD to expand Human Rights Watch in key regional capitals
Hungarian born US billionaire financier and philanthropist George Soros is donating 100 million US dollars to the group Human Rights Watch. In a statement Tuesday, Human Rights Watch said Soros is giving the grant through his Open Society Foundations, which he established to promote tolerance and democracy around the world.
Soros warns that Germany’s policies threaten the Euro and European Union
Germany's budget savings policy risks destroying the European project and a collapse of the Euro cannot be ruled out, billionaire investor George Soros said in a newspaper interview.
