Why does George Soros write books? He is one of the best known managers of unregulated offshore funds—also referred to as hedge funds. A holocaust survivor, Dr. Soros (honorary degrees from Oxford, The New School, and Yale, among others) fled Hungary to England after WWII where he studied philosophy at the London School of Economics. He began his career in British merchant banks and as a trader in New York. His goal, when starting his first fund, was to make $500,000 over five years so that he could live as a writer and elaborate on his ideas on philosophy.
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