Currency Crash: How Millennium Management Made $40 Million Betting Against the Egyptian Pound

benzinga.com George Soros famously earned $1 billion betting against the British pound in the early 1990s, predicting that the English central bank would devalue its money compared to…

Open Democracy could have been ‘insolvent by June’ without 40% cost reductions

pressgazette.co.uk Open Democracy could have gone into liquidation by June had it not made a 40% cut to costs, according to the non-profit news provider’s leadership team. That financial…

A sheriff, a felon and a conspiracy theorist walk into a hotel. They’re there for the same conference

nbcnews.com None Create your free profile or log in to save this article LAS VEGAS — A conference for a far-right sheriffs group this week drew a parade of felons, disgraced…

Soros Nonprofit Gives 8-Figure Sum To Far-Left Super PAC

zerohedge.com Soros Nonprofit Gives 8-Figure Sum To Far-Left Super PAC Authored by Eric Lundrum via American Greatness, One of the many nonprofits run by far-left billionaire George Soros…

Musk Funds National Signature Campaign In Support Of First Amendment

zerohedge.com Musk Funds National Signature Campaign In Support Of First Amendment Since acquiring the X platform, formerly known as Twitter, Elon Musk has been on a 'free speech' crusade…

The Teachers' Unions Are More Political than Ever

zerohedge.com The Teachers' Unions Are More Political than Ever Authored by Larry Sand via American Greatness, In the past, teachers’ unions concentrated on fighting to keep all teachers…

How a conservative conference morphed into a crisis of liberalism

economist.com One of the few benefits of Britain leaving the European Union, at least for denizens of Brussels, was that Nigel Farage all but disappeared from the city’s parliament, pubs…

Biden fund gets big donation from son of Republican megadonor Larry Ellison

cnbc.com David Ellison, CEO of Skydance Media attends the 81st Annual Golden Globe Awards at The Beverly Hilton on January 07, 2024 in Beverly Hills, California. David Ellison, the…

O.J. Simpson’s defence was a harbinger of post-truth politics

economist.com SIMPSON, who died on April 10th, was in many ways an inspiring figure before he murdered his ex-wife. He overcame a childhood disease, rickets, which made him slightly…

Shed the Fat, Gain the Profits: 3 Weight-Loss Stocks to Own Until 2027

investorplace.com Weight-loss stocks are in, and these three companies could be big winners in this space Weight-loss stocks remain the focus of many investors. The GLP-1 drugs that many…

Democrats Commit Vastly More Dark Money Than Republicans For 2024

zerohedge.com Democrats Commit Vastly More Dark Money Than Republicans For 2024 Authored by Austin Alonzo via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), (Illustration by The Epoch Times,…

Donald Trump crashes out of the Bloomberg rich list due to his meme stock nosediving

finance.yahoo.com None Donald Trump has fallen off Bloomberg's list of the world's 500 wealthiest people. • None The former president briefly ranked in the top 300 due to his stake in Truth…

2:00PM Water Cooler 4/9/2024

nakedcapitalism.com “So many of the social reactions that strike us as psychological are in fact a rational management of symbolic capital.” –Pierre Bourdieu, Classification Struggles Here is…

Bill Ackman provides a lesson in activist investing

economist.com As with every skirmish in America’s culture wars, how you view the ousting of Harvard University’s president has much to do with where you are sitting. Claudine Gay resigned…

AlphaSense, a Goldman Sachs-backed AI research startup valued at $2.5B, gears up for IPO as it crosses $200M in annual recurring revenue

aol.com Hedge fund manager Cynthia Paul started using the research platform AlphaSense more than 10 years ago while she was still working at George Soros’ family office. She had…

George Soros’ Favorite Picks: 3 Stocks the Billionaire Keeps Buying

investorplace.com This billionaire is betting big these three George Soros stocks will break the bank and net him a fortune George Soros’ hedge fund is making big bets on stocks, though not…

Soros fund is building an audio empire

semafor.com The Scoop George Soros thinks it’s good business, and perhaps good politics, to be in your ears. Over the last two years, Soros Fund Management, the firm founded by the…