Informationen zum Autor GEORGE SOROS runs Soros Fund Management with its flagship vehicle, Quantum Fund, a Curaçao-based investment firm headquartered in Manhattan. Quantum gained 68.6% in 1992 and 61.5% in 1993, and has $6 billion in net assets. Quantum Fund also spawned several other very successful funds. In addition to being a master financier, George Soros sponsors major philanthropic efforts under the umbrella of The Soros Foundations, which operate in 22 countries and spend hundreds of millions of dollars annually. Klappentext Soros reveals the investment strategies that have made him the most powerful and profitable investor in the world today. He provides an excellent guide of the marketplace, along with the specific economic and political history of recent times. Zusammenfassung The author reveals his own investment strategies in this text! as well as providing a theoretical and practical account of current financial trends. He explores the boom-bust cycle! the role of money and credit! mergers and acquisitions! the international debt crisis and much more. Inhaltsverzeichnis THEORY. The Theory of Reflexivity. Reflexivity in the Stock Market. Reflexivity in the Currency Market. The Credit and Regulatory Cycle. HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE. The International Debt Problem. The Collective System of Lending. Reagan's Imperial Circle. Evolution of the Banking System. The ``Oligopolarization'' of America. THE REAL-TIME EXPERIMENT. The Starting Point: August 1985. Phase 1: August 1985--December 1985. Control Period: January 1986--July 1986. Phase 2: July 1986--November 1986. The Conclusion: November 1986. EVALUATION. The Scope for Financial Alchemy: An Evaluation of theExperiment. The Quandary of the Social Sciences. PRESCRIPTION. Free Markets Versus Regulation. Toward an International Central Bank. The Paradox of Systemic Reform. The Crash of '87. Epilogue. Notes....

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GEORGE SOROS runs Soros Fund Management with its flagship vehicle, Quantum Fund, a Curaçao-based investment firm headquartered in Manhattan. Quantum gained 68.6% in 1992 and 61.5% in 1993, and has $6 billion in net assets. Quantum Fund also spawned several other very successful funds. In addition to being a master financier, George Soros sponsors major philanthropic efforts under the umbrella of The Soros Foundations, which operate in 22 countries and spend hundreds of millions of dollars annually.

Klappentext

Soros reveals the investment strategies that have made him the most powerful and profitable investor in the world today. He provides an excellent guide of the marketplace, along with the specific economic and political history of recent times.

Zusammenfassung
The author reveals his own investment strategies in this text, as well as providing a theoretical and practical account of current financial trends. He explores the boom-bust cycle, the role of money and credit, mergers and acquisitions, the international debt crisis and much more.

Inhalt

THEORY.

The Theory of Reflexivity.

Reflexivity in the Stock Market.

Reflexivity in the Currency Market.

The Credit and Regulatory Cycle.

HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE.

The International Debt Problem.

The Collective System of Lending.

Reagan's Imperial Circle.

Evolution of the Banking System.

The ``Oligopolarization'' of America.

THE REAL-TIME EXPERIMENT.

The Starting Point: August 1985.

Phase 1: August 1985--December 1985.

Control Period: January 1986--July 1986.

Phase 2: July 1986--November 1986.

The Conclusion: November 1986.

EVALUATION.

The Scope for Financial Alchemy: An Evaluation of theExperiment.

The Quandary of the Social Sciences.

PRESCRIPTION.

Free Markets Versus Regulation.

Toward an International Central Bank.

The Paradox of Systemic Reform.

The Crash of '87.

Epilogue.

Notes.