'I'm having a very good crisis,' says Soros as hedge fund managers make billions off recession

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A hedge fund manager who predicted the global credit crunch has said the financial crisis has been 'stimulating' and the culmination of his life's work.

George Soros, who predicted the global financial crisis twice before, was one of the few people to anticipate and prepare for the current economic collapse.

Mr Soros said his prediction meant he was better able to brace his Quantum investment fund against the gloabal storm.

But other investors failed to take notice of his prediction and his decision to come out of retirement in 2007 to manage the fund made him $US2.9 billion.

And while the financial crisis continued to deepen across the globe, the 78-year-old still managed to make $1.1 billion last year.

'It is, in a way, the culminating point of my life’s work,' he told national newspaper The Australian.

Soros is one of 25, top hedge fund managers from across Wall Street who have defied the credit crunch crisis to reap a total of $11.6billion (£7.9bn) last year.

The managers made their profit by trading above the pain in the markets, according to Institutional Investor’s Alpha Magazine.

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YEAH....BUT.....I THOUGHT THIS IS HOW IT WORKS

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/26/south-park-explains-the-b_n_179748.html

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1. The South Park video is great! Now I gotta go back and watch the

entire episode!

I wish hedgefunds would be disappeared. Doesn't seem like an honorable way to make $$$$$$$.

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2. Think you should re-post this in General Discussion. nt