{"id":2361,"date":"2010-10-06T20:01:38","date_gmt":"2010-10-06T20:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2010-10-06T20:02:30","modified_gmt":"2010-10-06T20:02:30","slug":"theres_just_one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=2361","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s Just One Thing Wrong Here&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prospect.org\/csnc\/blogs\/tapped_archive?month=10&#038;year=2010&#038;base_name=the_little_picture_soros_again\" target=\"browser\">TAPPED<\/a>:<\/p>\n<form mt:asset-id=\"213\" class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Soros_thumb.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.windsofchange.net\/media\/Soros_thumb.jpg\" width=\"440\" height=\"289\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;\" \/><\/form>\n<blockquote><p><i><b>George Soros<\/b>, a major funder of progressive causes, criticized President <b>Obama<\/b> today for giving in to deficit hawks amid an economic recession. &#8220;To cut government spending at a time of large-scale unemployment would be to ignore the lessons of history,&#8221; he said.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wouldn&#8217;t it be nice to know what his currency positions are today vis a vis the dollar??<\/p>\n<p>He made <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Soros#Currency_speculation\" target=\"browser\">an estimated $1.1 billion on the pound<\/a>; it&#8217;s not hard to imagine a scenario where he invests $50 million or so to drive US policies, and by the way, takes a strong position against the dollar and makes a billion or two.<\/p>\n<p>Farfetched? You decide. But he ought to disclose.<br \/>\n&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Soros is giving advice and money to the progressive movement &#8211; and they listen. I wonder what impact that advice might have on his investments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2361"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}