The speculator, George Soros, whose assault on sterling1 ejected Britain from the European exchange rate mechanism that September of 10 years ago has a mission — to use his estimated £5 billion fortune and his fame to help tackle what he sees as the failures of globalisation. The idea that a man who made billions betting on the financial markets sides with the antiglobalisation movement might strike some as ironic . Soros is clearly genuinely appalled at the damage wrought on vulnerable economies by the vast sums of money which flow across national borders every day.
“The US governs the international system to protect its own economy. It is not in charge of protecting other economies, ”he says.“ So when America goes into recession, you have antirecessionary policies. When other countries are in recession, they dont have the ability to engage in antirecessionary policies because they cant have a permissive monetary policy, because money would flee . ”In person , he has the air of a philosophy professor rather than a gimleteyed financier. In a soft voice which bears the traces of his native Hungary, he argues that it is time to rewrite the s