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WASHINGTON, XXX | Thu Apr 18, 2013 5:41pm EDT

(Reuters) - George Soros, who died XXX at ageXXX, was a predatory and hugely successful

financier and investor, who argued paradoxically for

years against the same sort of free-wheeling

capitalism that made him billions.

He was known as "the man who broke the Bank of England" for selling

short the British pound in 1992 and helping force the United Kingdom to

withdraw from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism, which devalued

the pound and earned Soros more than $1 billion.

Andhis Soros Fund Management was widely blamed for helping trigger

the Asian financial crisis of 1997, by selling short the Thai baht andMalaysian ringgit.

"Subsequently, Prime Minister Mahatir of Malaysia accused me of causing

the crisis, a wholly unfounded accusation," Soros wrote in The Crisis of

Global Capitalism: Open Society Endangered," in 1998.

"We were not sellers of the currency dur ing or several months before the

crisis; on the contrary ... we were purchasing ringgits to realize profits on

our earlier speculation."

Still, economist Paul Krugman, was one of many observers who accused

Soros of helping trigger the crisis.

In 1999, Krugman wrote that "nobody who has read a business magazine in the last few years can

be unaware that these days there really are investors who not only move money in anticipation of

a currency crisis, but actually do their best to trigger that crisis for fund and profit."

Still, Soros has written extensively on the folly of what he has called free market "fundamentalism,"

the belief of many conservative economists that markets will correct themselves with no need for

government intervention.

In Soros' view, markets and investors are subject to "mood" swings, or a prevailing positive or

negative bias which can be exploited by savvy investors but which inevitably lead to damaging

market bubbles and boom/bust cycles.

An enigma, wrapped in intellect, contrad iction and money.

A Jew born in Hungary as the Nazis were gaining power in Germany, Soros survived World War

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Two and then emigrated to Great Britain, where he earned a degree from the London School of

Economics in 1952, and landed his first job in the financial industry largely through pure stubborn

chutzpah.

OPEN SOCIETY INSTITUTE

While at the London School, Soros studied under the economist and philosopher Karl Popper and

a main vehicle for his ph ilanthropy, the Open Society Institute, is named for Popper's two-volume

work, "The Open Society and Its Enemies."

In that work, Popper develops the philosophy of reflexivity, a theory first articulated by William

Thomas in the 1920s that posits that individual biases enter into market transactions, coloring theperception of economic fundamentals. Soros has attributed his own financial success in part to his

understanding of the reflexive effect.

Key to understanding that effect is recognizing when markets are in a condition of near-

equilibrium, or in disequilibrium. Soros has observed that when markets are rising or falling rapidly,

they are typically marked by rising disequilibrium, and the d ispassionate investor can capitalize on

that recognition.

While Soros has benefited enormously from this understanding (Forbes put his wealth in 2013 at

$19 billion, making him the world's 30th richest person, not counting the roughly $8 billion he has

given away through various charitable entities he controls), he has argued nevertheless for strong

central government regulation to correct for and counterbalance the excesses of greed, fear and

the free market.

Popper's idea of fallibilism, which posits that anything one believes may in fact be wrong, is

another key principle that has guided Soros in his career, and h is philanthropy.

Soros' philanthropy since the 1970s, when he began funding the studies of black students at the

University of Cape Town in South Africa, has been marked as much by his personal journey as by

the needs of the communities he has set out to serve.

His efforts through the Open Society Institute and the Soros Foundations have been skewed

toward the effort to promote democratic values in the post-Soviet economies of Central and

Eastern Europe, where he witnessed the rise of communism in Hungary after World War Two.

"The bulk of his enormous winnings (as an investor and speculator) is now devoted to

encouraging transitional and emerging nations to become 'open societies,'" former Federal

Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker wrote in the foreword to Soros' "The Alchemy of Finance" (2003) .

"Open," Volcker wrote, "not only in the sense of freedom of commerce but - more important -

tolerant of new ideas and different modes of thinking and behavior."

PHILANTHROPY, POLITICS

Soros also pledged $50 million in 2006 to the Millennium Promise, led by economist Jeffrey Sachs,

to provide educational, agricultural and medical aid to help poor villages in Africa. And the Open

Society Institute has expanded its giving to more than 60 countries around the world, giving away

roughly $600 million a year.

Soros was an early supporter of the peaceful transformation of the Solidarity movement in Poland

and Open Society Institute programs were considered by many Western observers to be a key

factor in the success of the "Rose Revolution" in Georgia.

While his philanthropy has earned him friends around the world, his political giving has earned h im

both friends and enemies. Former President George W. Bush, who Soros blamed for turning the

United States into "the main obstacle to a stable and just world order," was perhaps the biggest

single target of his political wrath.

"By declaring a 'war on terror' after Sept. 11, we set the wrong agenda for the world," Soros told

Newsweek magazine in a 2006 interview. "When you wage war, you inevitably create innocent

victims."

In a bid to stop Bush's re-election, Soros donated $23.5 million to more than 500 liberal and

progressive groups during the 2003-2004 U.S. election cycle.

Other causes that have attracted Soros' generosity include drug policy reform. He donated $1.4

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offered to help his own mother, a member of the Hemlock Society, commit suicide.

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