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Soros: The Crisis Is Far From Over, And Derivatives Are A "License To Kill"
The Business Insider ^ | 6-10-2010 | Vince Veneziani

Posted on 06/10/2010 1:25:44 PM PDT by blam

Soros: The Crisis Is Far From Over, And Derivatives Are A "License To Kill"

Vince Veneziani
Jun. 10, 2010, 4:14 PM

George Soros is sounding a lot like Warren Buffett these days.

In a conference in Vienna, the famous investor said that Europe's worsening debt situation is just "Act II" of the crisis, according to Bloomberg.

Bloomberg: “The collapse of the financial system as we know it is real, and the crisis is far from over,” Soros said today at a conference in Vienna. “Indeed, we have just entered Act II of the drama.”

Soros, 79, said the current situation in the world economy is “eerily” reminiscent of the 1930s with governments under pressure to narrow their budget deficits at a time when the economic recovery is weak.

But the kicker was what he had to say about credit default swaps. Soros called them a "license to kill" and that they should only be allowed if there's an "insurable interest." Quite reminiscent of when Warren Buffett famously called derivatives "weapons of mass destruction."

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(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: derivatives; economy; recovery; soros

1 posted on 06/10/2010 1:25:45 PM PDT by blam
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To: blam
George's lips are moving, he's herding the sheep again.
2 posted on 06/10/2010 1:30:47 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law." -- Aristotle)
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To: blam

The crisis will on its way to being over when Soro’s fat you know what is sitting in jail.


3 posted on 06/10/2010 1:32:00 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: blam

Soros may be a commie, but he’s a wealthy commie. He didn’t get rich by being stupid.

I think he’s right about act II and derivatives.


4 posted on 06/10/2010 1:32:09 PM PDT by brownsfan (The average American: Uninformed, and unconcerned.)
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To: blam

“they should only be allowed if there’s an “insurable interest.”

I wonder if he regards the millions he’s dumped into progressive causes an insurable interest. If so, did he purchase any swaps to cover his position when the progressives in Congress get their heads handed to them this fall?

I’ll have to say, in that photo he doesn’t look particularly distressed about the world being in the worst financial crisis since the 1930’s. Of course, for all we know, everything is playing out exactly as he planned it years ago...


5 posted on 06/10/2010 1:33:42 PM PDT by DrC
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To: blam

“Do you expect me to talk, Sorosfinger?”

“No, Mr. Bond. I expect you to die.”


6 posted on 06/10/2010 1:58:24 PM PDT by Argus
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To: blam

I suspect, Soros can’t stand the competition.


7 posted on 06/10/2010 2:06:25 PM PDT by depressed in 06 (2012, the end of our long national nightmare.)
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To: blam
“The collapse of the financial system as we know it is real, and the crisis is far from over,”

...I know, because I'm orchestrating about 50% of it personally...


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

8 posted on 06/10/2010 2:12:58 PM PDT by The Comedian (Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
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To: blam

“the famous investor?”

Really, because aren’t there warrants out for his arrest in some countries because he meddled in a way to collapse their currencies?

You know, like he’d like to do to the dollar. He’s been trying to buy himself a President to aid and abet him in this enterprise for years. And look - he finally FOUND one!


9 posted on 06/10/2010 2:50:16 PM PDT by Right Cal Gal (Ronald Reagan: "our liberal friends....know so much that isn't so...")
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To: Right Cal Gal
"Really, because aren’t there warrants out for his arrest in some countries because he meddled in a way to collapse their currencies?"

There is an international arrest warrant that was issued in Malaysia...this warrant is still active.
It just struck me, didn't Soros visit the White House while under this warrant?

10 posted on 06/10/2010 3:48:01 PM PDT by blam
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To: blam

A few brave patriots protested economic terrorist George Soros and Gordon Brown... other news outlets would not touch this.

See the NHTPC site for a list of articles, item under this one with videos.

http://www.nhteapartycoalition.org/tea/2011/04/11/video-of-soros-protest/


11 posted on 04/11/2011 7:42:57 AM PDT by CowHampshire (NH, Tea Party, Banking Elite, Obama, Cloward-Piven, Totalitarianism, Fascism, Taxation, Soros)
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To: CowHampshire

That old commie Soros IS still right about those Derivatives, they are economic destruction, set to blow this nation apart.


12 posted on 04/11/2011 7:47:05 AM PDT by TruthConquers (.Delendae sunt publicae scholae)
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