Billionaire
financier George Soros
is giving $50 million to found an anti-free market think
tank. The think tank, to be called "The Institute for New
Economic Thinking," would help "take back the economics
profession from the champions of free-market zealotry who have
dominated it for decades, and to correct the failures of decades
of market deregulation," according to the unbiased news
publication Newsweek. Soros
reportedly already has left-wing economists like Joseph Stiglitz
and Jeffrey Sachs on board for the project.
It would add to a number of American think tanks and media
outlets in Soros's employ.