tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1366730299234900689.comments2023-06-28T18:26:57.540+02:00Market ViewsSA Indexinvestorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08908116823494392391noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1366730299234900689.post-25487266667677311432009-03-25T22:13:00.000+02:002009-03-25T22:13:00.000+02:00Did you know that George Soros would not be a mult...Did you know that George Soros would not be a multi-billionaire if it were not for the international language Esperanto?<BR/><BR/>Born in Hungary in 1930 as Gyorgy Schwartz, the family changed its name in 1936 to Soros, which in Esperanto means "to soar." <BR/><BR/>The Soros name-change was an effort to protect the Jewish family from the rise of fascist rulers and the whole family spoke Esperanto at home.<BR/><BR/>As a native Esperanto speaker, (someone who has spoken Esperanto from birth), George Soros defected to the West in 1946, while attending an Esperanto youth meeting in Switzerland.<BR/><BR/>Esperanto enabled Soros both to defect, and to become the 28th most wealthy man in the World, according to the Forbes rich list.Brian Barkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17619597021388228806noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1366730299234900689.post-61684195341023993082008-12-02T13:49:00.000+02:002008-12-02T13:49:00.000+02:00"And while the Reilly family (my in-laws) was comi...<I>"And while the Reilly family (my in-laws) was coming to terms with the fact that their total AIG investment is now worth less than $12,000, and that the vision and hard work of their of their patriarch had been mostly obliterated -- top AIG executives took a posh spa retreat to California. Threw themselves a banquet and awarded each other handsome bonuses."</I><BR/><BR/>What hard work? That $10 had been saved up 80 years ago, what work had been put into it since then? Boohoohoom it bought them houses, university education, and now they only have $12k left...how about doing some diversification.Zoltan Faszhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01894182302560432047noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1366730299234900689.post-70004396927959607112008-08-19T12:53:00.000+02:002008-08-19T12:53:00.000+02:00Good good good......<B>Good good good......</B>goooooood girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04966967530389712531noreply@blogger.com