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🗓️ 16 June 2023
⏱️ 18 minutes
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0:00.0 | Our colleague Greg Zuckerman has spent decades covering big name investors. |
0:10.8 | People who've had huge impacts on the American economy and politics. |
0:15.0 | And among them, there's one name that really stands out. |
0:19.8 | Billionaire George Soros. |
0:22.4 | Well, George Soros is one of these people that very few don't have an opinion about. |
0:29.8 | People often loathe him, despise him, demonize him, and others have a lot of respect for him |
0:37.0 | still on Wall Street. |
0:38.6 | A divisive figure. |
0:40.2 | Yeah, very few people are as divisive. |
0:42.7 | George Soros is the puppet master. |
0:45.0 | Now go to a person holding a sign who gets paid by Soros or somebody. |
0:48.9 | It's almost like he's an evil person in a Batman movie. |
0:53.1 | Soros is reviled by some on the right for his $25 billion empire that supports liberal |
0:59.7 | politicians and causes. |
1:02.5 | And now the 92 year old is planning for the future. |
1:06.5 | And he's decided which of his five children will run his organization. |
1:15.4 | It's not the son that you would have expected who's taking over. |
1:18.6 | And I find that aspect fascinating too. |
1:20.8 | If you don't care about politics, if you don't care about finance, you might care about |
1:24.0 | family dynamics and you can't help but seize on the dynamic there where the most likely |
1:33.6 | heir apparent in the end was not the successor. |
1:37.1 | And the least likely son emerged to take the helm of the empire. |
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