SAT作文素材名人篇34:金融大鳄索罗斯George Soros -- the financial crocodile
George Soros wants to be the Bono of the financial world. The speculator whose assault on sterling ejected Britain from the European exchange rate mechanism that September of 10 years ago has a mission--to use his esti-mated £5 bn 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 anti-globalisation 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 anti-recessionary policies. When other countries are in recession, they dont have the ability to engage in anti-recessionary 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 gimlet-eyed financier. In a soft voice which bears the traces of his native Hungary, he argues that it is time to rewrite the so-called Washington consensus--the cocktail of liberalisation, privatisation and fiscal rectitude which the IMF has been preaching for 15 years. Developing countries no longer have the freedom to run their own economies, he argues, even when they follow perfectly sound policies. He cites Brazil, which although it has a floating currency and manageable public debt was paying ten times over the odds to borrow from capital markets.
Soros, who at one stage after the fall of the Berlin Wall was providing more assistance to Russia than the US government, believes in practising what he preaches.His Open Society Institute has been pivotal in helping eastern European countries develop democratic societies and market economies. Soros has the advantage of an insiders knowledge of the workings of global capitalism, so his criticism is particularly pointed. Last year, the Soros foundations network spent nearly half a billion dollars on projects in education, public health and promoting democracy, making it one of the worlds largest private donors.
基地组织叙利亚分支的头目在空袭中丧生
2010年考研英语二翻译真题及答案解析
早上干这8件事 你的一天都会不一样
听说这10种女票最让人嫌弃?你有中枪吗?
国际英语资讯:China sees record-high direct investment in U.S. in 2015
体坛英语资讯:Brazil notice Valencias Diego Alves
适合中国人的英语学习方法
球员抑郁和焦虑
Childhood obesity 41 (consider) one of the most serious阅读理解答案
Sagrada Familia ( 2,056,448 visits/year)阅读理解答案
麦克白
国际英语资讯:Former Portuguese PM Guterres selected to be next UN chief
国际英语资讯:Miss Universe pageant to push through as schedule on Jan. 30
什么?!寂寞真的会传染?!
You can never imagine how big and complex the inner world 阅读理解答案
贫民窟里的电影制作人
BBC榜单:世界最伟大10家博物馆
My name is Li Hua and as a senior three student, 阅读理解答案
每天吃多少才不会胖?原来一双手就能称
最近爆红的《釜山行》,老外是怎么评价的?
国内英语资讯:Senior CPC official arrives in Budapest for visit
2011年考研英语一翻译真题及答案解析
Have you ever been out on a boat and felt it lifted up 阅读理解答案
夏洛特和乔治抢尽风头的一天
三位科学家同获诺奖,奖金怎么分
2009年考研英语翻译真题及答案解析
国内英语资讯:China supports Colombias peace process: Chinese FM
体坛英语资讯:Visiting Shanghai Sharks lose NBA pre-season game against Houston Rockets 94-131
净化室内空气 选这些植物就对了!
Our Fears Can Change the Reality of the Situation阅读理解答案
不限 |
英语教案 |
英语课件 |
英语试题 |
不限 |
不限 |
上册 |
下册 |
不限 |