Fortune - George Soros

Call Number
203-13-1:76/1

General information

Call No.:
203-13-1:76/1
Part of series
HU OSA 203-13-1 Records of Central European University: External Relations Office: Audio-visual Recordings
Located at
VHS NTSC #76 / No. 1
Digital ver. identifier
HU_OSA_00007213
Date of air
1998-12-20
Date
1998
Level
Item
Primary Type
Moving image
Language
English
Duration
17 min.

Content

Form/Genre
Television program
Contents Summary
Recording of a fragment form “60 Minutes” aired on CBS News with George Soros. Presenter and interviewer is Steve Kroft. George Soros openly discusses his childhood, the Holocaust and the speculations he does on the markets. He talks about himself as a player and sees the system as broken for allowing him to speculate the way he does. Openly talks about the situations in Malaysia, Haiti, Bosnia, Russia, Ukraine, Central-Eastern Europe and even South Africa where he had a role from the perspective of both economy as well as social and moral issues. His critic, Jim Grant, financial analyst also appears in this recording.

Context

Associated Names
CBS (Copyright holder)