Liz and windchime posted some information on another thread that I need to crosslink here yet.
They found information about his quantum fund.
It seems all the initial investors where foreign countries.
So, Soros seems to have been 'sent here' and then prompted up financially by other countries.
I have to finish up a few things before I go look into it more.
Oil connections:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1319982/posts?page=72#72