Lurking in the background of every discussion is the fact that Mr. Soros just celebrated his 91st birthday. He is a year older than Warren Buffett, who recently stepped down as a trustee of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Mr. Soros declined through a spokesman to be interviewed for this article. “In its early days, the foundation was much better at adding things than closing things. That was the luxury of what, then and now, remains a very generously funded foundation,” Mr. Malloch-Brown said.

Source: International New York Times September 12, 2021 06:56 UTC