One of the few fascinating things you learn by looking closely at George Soros's output is how often he is wrong. The financial Dark Lord, who made a billion dollars overnight when he bet against the British pound in 1992, constantly predicts the sky is falling. Most of the time, it isn't. He was mocked for exaggerating risks to the economic order in his 1998 book, The Crisis of Global Capitalism. Last year, he declared, The EU is on the verge of collapse, in a New York Review of Books interview. His end-of-year assessment for 2016 was: Democracy is now
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