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Soros earned $1 billion in 1992, by placing a bet against the pound sterling, forcing the UK government to remove the peg from the basket of European currencies. He was also the largest financial investor, participating in a failed attempt to resist the election for a second presidential term of George W. Bush. George Soros, at that time Gjord Schwartz, was born 12 august 1930 years in the city of Budapest in the family of Tivadar Schwartz and Erzebet Sutz. His father was a lawyer, a writer, founder of a literary magazine, and also held one of the key posts in the Jewish community of Budapest.