George Soros

WASHINGTON, DC – I share the growing concern around the world about the misalignment of currencies. Brazil’s finance minister speaks of a latent currency war, and he is not far off the mark: it is in the currency markets that different economic policies and different economic and...

NEW YORK – The Roma have been persecuted across Europe for centuries. Now they face a form of discrimination unseen in Europe since World War II: group evictions and expulsions from several European democracies of men, women, and children on the grounds that they pose a threat to public order. Last...

NEW YORK — The upcoming G-20 meeting is a make-or-break event. Unless it introduces practical measures to support the countries at the periphery of the global financial system, global markets will suffer another round of decline, just as they did after United States Treasury Secretary Timothy...

NEW YORK – The euro suffers from structural deficiencies. It has a central bank, but it does not have a central treasury, and the supervision of the banking system is left to national authorities. These defects are increasingly making their influence felt, aggravating the financial crisis. The...

According to the European security document adopted in 2003, “It is in the interest of the European Union to promote a ring of well-governed countries on its borders with whom it can enjoy close and cooperative relations.” The European Commission is now elaborating this principle in the form of a “...

As American and British troops prepare to invade Iraq, public opinion in these countries does not support war without UN authorization. The rest of the world is overwhelmingly opposed to war. Yet Saddam Hussein is regarded as a tyrant who needs to be disarmed, and the UN Security Council...

(Continued from #11, April 4,2000, and #12, April 11, 2000) Russia’s political and social evolution has been far less satisfactory. Yeltsin’s family, under the guidance of Boris Berezovsky, have been looking for a successor to Yeltsin who would protect them against prosecution after the...

(Continued from The Day № 11, April 4, 2000) Out of these chaotic conditions, the rudiments of a new economic order began to emerge. It was a form of capitalism, but it was a very peculiar one and it came into existence in a different sequence from what could have been expected under normal...

The collapse of the Soviet empire in 1989 and the Soviet Union in 1991 offered a historic opportunity to transform that part of the world into open societies, but the Western democracies failed to rise to the occasion and the entire world has to suffer the consequences. The Soviet Union and later...