About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 122. Chapters: Aaron C. Brown, Alex Mascioli, Alfred Winslow Jones, Andrew Lahde, Andy Kessler (author), Anne Dias-Griffin, Ann Lee (professor), Arthur J. Samberg, Arthur Nadel, Bernard Madoff, Bill Ackman, Bill Lipschutz, Boaz Weinstein, Brad Pattelli, Bruce Berkowitz, Bruce Kovner, Cliff Asness, Damon Vickers, Daniel S. Loeb, Danny Pang (financier), David E. Shaw, David Einhorn (hedge fund manager), David Rocker, David Ryan (investor), David Tepper, Edward Lampert, Edward O. Thorp, Ed Seykota, Eric Mindich, Ezra Zask, George Jarkesy, George Soros, Gil Blake, Harry Markopolos, Henry Laufer, J. Ezra Merkin, James Altucher, James Chanos, James Harris Simons, James Nicholson (American businessman), Jason Mudrick, Jeremy Frommer, Jim Cramer, Jim Rogers, Joel Greenblatt, John D. Arnold, John Meriwether, John P. Costas (business), John Paulson, Joseph DiMenna, Julian Robertson, Jun Song, Kenneth C. Griffin, Kenneth H. Shubin Stein, Kyle Bass, Larry Hite, Lee Ainslie, Linda Bradford Raschke, Li Lu, Louis Bacon, Manuel P. Asensio, Marc Lasry, Marc Rich, Mario Gabelli, Mark E. Kingdon, Mark Ritchie (trader), Mark Spitznagel, Martin S. Schwartz, Martin Shkreli, Michael Burry, Michael Novogratz, Michael Steinhardt, Mike Vranos, Mitchell J. Blutt, Mohnish Pabrai, Monroe Trout, Nicholas Cosmo, Noam Gottesman, Paul Kazarian, Paul Singer (businessman), Paul Tudor Jones, Perry J. Kaufman, Peter Thiel, Raj Rajaratnam, Ray Dalio, Ray Kurzweil, Richard B. Handler, Richard Driehaus, Robert E. Pardo, Roy Niederhoffer, Ryan Lee (hedge fund manager), Samuel Israel III, Samuel J. Heyman, Sanford J. Grossman, Stanley Druckenmiller, Stephen Mandel (hedge fund manager), Steven A. Cohen, T. Boone Pickens, Timothy Sykes, Toby Crabel, Tom Baldwin (trader), Tom Basso, Victor Niederhoffer, Warren Lichtenstein, Whitney Tilson, William Eckhardt (trader), Yan Huo. Excerpt: George Soros ( or; Hungarian: Hungarian: born August 12, 1930, as Schwartz Gyorgy) is a Hungarian-American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist. He is the chairman of Soros Fund Management. Soros supports progressive-liberal causes. He is known as "The Man Who Broke the Bank of England" because of his in investment profits during the 1992 Black Wednesday UK currency crisis. Between 1979 and 2011, Soros gave away over $8 billion to human rights, public health, and education causes. He played a significant role in the peaceful transition from communism to capitalism in Hungary (1984 89), - which he himself proclaimed was being exaggerated and provided Europe's largest higher education endowment to Central European University in Budapest. Soros is also the chairman of the Open Society Institute. Soros was born in Budapest, Hungary to a nonobservant Jewish family. His mother Elizabeth (also known as Erzsebet) came from a family that owned a thriving silk shop. His father Tivadar (also known as Teodoro) was a lawyer and had been a prisoner of war during and after World War I until he escaped from Russia and rejoined his family in Budapest. The two married in 1924. Tivadar was an Esperantist writer and taught George to speak Esperanto from birth. Soros later said that he grew up in a Jewish home and that his parents were cautious with their religious roots. Soros was thirteen years old in March 1944 when Nazi Germany occupied Hungary. Soros took a job with the Jewish Council, which had been established during the Nazi occupation of Hungary. Soros later described this time to writer Michael Lewis: The Jewish Council asked the little kids to hand out the deportation notices. I was told to go to the Jewish Council. And there I was given these small slips of paper ... It said report to the rabbi seminary at 9 am ... And I was given this list of names. I took this piece of paper to my father. He instantly recognized it. This was a list of...
