George Soros, “Freedom”, Leonard Lopate Show, 2006/06/12 August 9, 2008
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I’ve been interested in understanding more about the ideas of George Soros as the philosopher, rather than the George Soros the financier.
George Soros and George Bush both champion promoting freedom worldwide. Yet they have very different ideas about the best way to do it. In The Age of Fallibility: Consequences of the War on Terror, George Soros explains why his policies are so different from those of President Bush.
WNYC – The Leonard Lopate Show: Freedom and Discovery (June 12, 2006)
I recently featured Fareed Zakaria’s interview of Soros is and interesting discussion of how bubbles form out of misconceptions and how reality sets in and bursts and crashes bubbles.
Unlike other critics like Peter Schiff and Jim Rogers, Soros favors government intervention to regulate markets since he doesn’t believe in the “self-correction to equilibrium” notion of markets.
Soros’ skeptical approach to human prediction of markets is similar to Nassim Taleb’s ideas that history is inherently a fallacy and any prediction based on past data is imperfect at best.