On Apr 11, 2008, at 10:34 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
> The NYT profile of George Soros
>
> <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/11/business/11soros.html>
>
> reports that his funds averaged 30.5% a year - after fees! - from
> 1969 to 2000. That's extraordinary. $1 million invested with him in
> 1969 would have turned into $3,836,417,487 in 2000. It's amazing how
> he's one of the greatest speculators of all time but he has this
> weird social dem philosophy.
Warren Buffet has done nearly as well--and over a longer period--with absolutely *no* speculation.
Shane Mage
"Thunderbolt steers all things...it consents and does not consent to be called Zeus."
Herakleitos of Ephesos