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The Day the Bank of England was caught in an artificial pumping scheme is way more accurate of a title. But I guess anything to smear Soros and the "left" gets upvoted to HN nowadays.

Connection being the authoritative right sees Soros as the analog to the Koch bros.... not quite understanding we don't like capitalists anymore than the right likes socialists. But hey Soros === bad, leftist === bad so to the top of HN it goes. (please prove me wrong)

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George Soros has been known as "The Man Who Broke The Bank of England" pretty much since it happened. It's a riff on a much earlier phrase, "the man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo", which has been around since the 19th century, referring to a gambler. It pre-dates the current right's antisemitic obsession with him by quite a long way, and I don't think it's been used as a pejorative term at all - more a mark of respect. But I could be wrong about that.

The confusion in this thread is that some people think "breaking the bank" is an insult to the breaker, because the bank is the "good guy".

It's a bit bizarre.

I agree, I don't think I'd call Soros a leftist- a liberal, maybe. But leftist is wrong- he's a wealthy capitalist, and leftist thought generally involves anticapitalist views. In fact leftists generally view center liberals as their most effective enemies.

But yeah the right always tries to portray him as leftist to try to connect him with "antifa" as part of antisemitic conspiracy theories.

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