One of the planet’s richest
men, his past marred with crimes and misdemeanors, the 86-year-old billionaire
skates on. More than a decade ago, he moved his financial headquarters to
Curaçao, a tax-free haven in the Caribbean designed for monied hypocrites who
talk one game and play another. The place is not bulletproof; on occasion,
Soros has been accused—and even convicted—of insider trading. A French court
found him guilty of that crime and levied a fine of $2.3 million. In the
parlance of the billionaires’ club, that was small change. Investigative
journalists, a dwindling cadre, show little interest in him. They prefer to
scrutinize safer, softer targets.
If they took even a cursory look, though, they would see that
Soros’s global reach and influence far outstrip those of the Koch brothers or
other liberal bogeymen—and that underlying it all is a vision both dystopian
and opportunistic. “The main obstacle to a stable and just world order,” Soros
has declared, “is the United States.” Ergo, that constitutional republic must
be weakened and its allies degraded. The Sorosian world order—one of open
borders and global governance, antithetical to the ideals and experience of the
West—could then assume command.
George Soros has been an escape artist since his adolescence in
Budapest, when Nazi occupiers gave him his first life lessons. Until then, the
Schwartz family lived in a large house, located on an island in the Danube.
György’s mother, Elizabeth, was the daughter of affluent silk merchants. His
father, Tivadar, was a prominent lawyer and eccentric; in good weather, he
commuted to his office by rowboat.
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