clipped from: www.businesshackers.com The star: Billionaire George Soros said Malaysia is “rich enough” and does not need his financial support.
He said this in response to questions on Malaysia’s financial market and whether he would invest here, given his previous remarks about the country and the investment in the 1990s.
“Malaysia is a rich enough country and does not need my support to do it,” said the 76-year-old philanthropist and financial investor, who was here to promote his book, The Age of Fallibility: Consequences of the War on Terror.
Soros, who spoke as a guest at the London School of Economics and Political Society of Malaysia fund-raising dinner on Friday night, was replying to questions after delivering his talk.
Earlier that day, he had met former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, who once called him a moron and blamed the market speculator for the attacks on the currency during the Asian financial crisis in 1997 and 1998.
Soros had called Dr Mahathir a menace to his own country.