文档介绍：September 12, 2003
Transcript - David io interviews e Soros
SOROS: The Republican Party has been captured by a bunch of extremists…
People who maintain that markets will take care of everything, that you leave
it to the markets and the markets know best. Therefore, you need no
government, no interference with business. Let everybody pursue his own
interests. And that will serve mon interest. Now, there is a good
foundation for this. But it's a half-truth.
IO: e Soros says he's convinced the Bush administration is
pursuing policies both foreign and economic that in Soros's experience, will
be catastrophic.
Soros has been hailed as a international financial genius: "the world's
greatest money manager" said the INSTITUTIONAL INVESTOR; one of the
most influential philanthropists, according to TIME.
So he's not the kind of man you'd expect to be arguing that when es to
free market capitalism, it's possible to have 'too much of a good thing,' that
unchecked capitalism fails to provide for certain fundamental needs.
SOROS: We need to maintain law and order. We need to maintain peace in
the world. We need to protect the environment. We need to have some
degree of social justice, equality of opportunity.
The markets are not designed to take care of those needs. That's a political
process. And the market fundamentalists have managed to reduc