For decades, George Soros has been the American right’s favourite villain — a billionaire bogeyman blamed for everything from migrant caravans to climate protests. But with Donald Trump back in the White House and preparing to wield the power of the federal government against his ideological opponents, the conflict has entered a new and dangerous…
President Donald Trump said his administration is probing whether the billionaire philanthropist George Soros “and other radical left lunatics” helped to fund the “No Kings” protests against him. Soros has, through his foundations, heavily funded progressive causes across the world, including in the U.S., and become a bête noire of the conservative right. Trump has…
Elon Musk posted a meme that joked about the death of billionaire George Soros, a 94-year-old Democratic donor, following several celebrity deaths. The tech CEO shared an image of the Grim Reaper looking for Soros in a claw-grabber game on Sunday, days after the deaths of Hulk Hogan and Ozzy Osbourne. Newsweek contacted Musk for…
In financial markets, the Hong Kong dollar is known as a “widow-maker”, a ruinous trade that inflicts painful losses on successive generations of investors. While betting against Japanese government bonds has been the most notorious widow-maker trade, challenges to Hong Kong’s currency peg to the US dollar date back to the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis…