George Soros Quotes About Economics

Quotes about: Economics

• Studying economics is not a good preparation for dealing with it.

  George Soros

  Preparation, Study, Economics

  George Soros (2007). “Open Society Reforming Global Capitalism Reconsidered”, p.57, PublicAffairs

• I passionately disagreed with Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson's plan to bail out the banks by using a public fund called the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) to help banks take toxic assets off their balance sheets. I argued that it would be much better to put the money where the hole was and replenish the equity of the banks themselves.

  George Soros

  Balance, Toxic, Relief

• By creating the European Central Bank, the member states exposed their own government bonds to the risk of default. Developed countries that issue bonds in their own currency never default, because they can always print money. Their currency may depreciate, but the risk of default is absent.

  George Soros

  Country, Government, Creating

• Economics seeks to be a science. Science is supposed to be objective and it is difficult to be scientific when the subject matter, the participant in the economic process, lacks objectivity.

  George Soros

  Objectivity, Investing, Matter

  George Soros (1994). “The Alchemy of Finance: Reading the Mind of the Market”, p.11, John Wiley & Sons

• The concept of a general equilibrium has no relevance to the real world (in other words, classical economics is an exercise in futility).

  George Soros

  Real, Exercise, Investing

  George Soros (1994). “The Alchemy of Finance: Reading the Mind of the Market”, p.20, John Wiley & Sons

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