Billionaire investor George Soros said the world was facing the worst financial crisis since World War Two and the United States was threatened with recession, according to an interview with the Austrian daily Standard.
"The situation is much more serious than any other financial crisis since the end of World War Two," Soros was quoted as saying.
He said over the past few years politics had been guided by some basic misunderstandings stemming from something which he called "market fundamentalism" -- the belief financial markets tended to act as a balance.
"This is the wrong idea," he said. "We really do have a serious financial crisis now."
Asked whether he thought the United States was headed for a recession, he said: "Yes, this is a threat in the United States".
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