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Mises Daily: Thursday, December 10, 1998 by   The political left
loves to prattle about the plight of the poor, but their
darlings are increasingly culled from a small club of the
world's richest men. Last year it was media mogul Ted Turner who
won leftist affections by advocating population control and
bailing out the United Nations.  This year, it is George Soros,
the billionaire hedge-fund operator who has turned like a snake
on the system of economics that made him rich. His new book is
The Crisis of Global Capitalism, which argues for a world
central bank and an army of new global regulators to straighten
out the world monetary mess, according to the Sorosian
prescription.  Like Turner before him, Soros also has a message
about morality. He believes th