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    <body><![CDATA[Interesting philosophy and dogma from the man who started it all - with leverage in the world of finance.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Basically Soros had figured out &quot;game theory&quot; before it was applied to the stock market by others.   ]]></body>
    
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