. >> george soros has boosted its stake in tether. as the world largest maker of generic drugs. ow for more on teva. a big a big bold bet by soros. >> that is right. he did not become a billionaire out of chance. they have boosted their stake in this since last year. he holds about one percent of what is the world's largest maker of generic drugs. this is a $57 billion company. percentccounts for four of the asset -- assets under management. why is george soros going into teva now. , among theery cheap cheapest of the global pharmaceutical companies listed around the world. that iten very vague could be a takeover target. it is in the process of restructuring, letting go 10% of the workforce to get $2 billion worth of cost every year. this is aos thinks bet taking. they are doubling down. the shares are up 10% so far this year. they are up a little bit more in israeli trading. he -- they are still facing challenges. start, it's ms drug could face generic competition. contribute about half of its profits, it could make a big dent in its earnings. at the same time there is a new ce

so i will say the logical foundation doesn't exist.bill g george soros money. so i will say the logical foundation doesn't exist. >> no secret there is tension between you and the speaker. he reportedly referred to you by a word we cannot use on the air. how is that relationship now, will it be patched up, can you work together on other issues? >> the speaker has had a number of opportunities to clear that up and he's declined it every opportunity. so is that essentially a public confession that what he said on the house floor to a couple of liberal democrats was true, it was not denied. it isn't up to me to demand an apology. instead, i will go forward maintaining the decorum necessary to be effective in this job. it's interesting, though, that i and others have been lectured about having verb allege discipline when we see that that doesn't exist within our own speaker.allege discipline when we see that that doesn't exist within our own speaker. >> clearly he's upset with comments you've made that he feels don't help the conversation. anything you want to say

liz: i just, i understand why george soros marches to the beat of a different drum, but i look at what'sally have some clear skies ahead maybe for a little bit because there's a budget deal. to me, you put that together with janet yellen, like it or not, and you have a very fertile atmosphere for equities. >> absolutely. you might argue that, you know, everywhere around the world we're seeing monetary stimulus, and we don't know what happens when the juice gets removed. and at some point that'll happen, but for now i think that we have a comfort fact to have with that -- factor with that, and janet yellen continues with the process, and it looks good to me as an underpinning for stock valuations. liz: chris, lovely to have you. thanks so much. >> thank you, liz. liz: global financial chief investment officer teaching you and us how he picks stocks that have been winners for him. closing bell ringing in six minutes. coming up, a marriage of two big pharma companies. a deal worth $25 billion in cash and stocks. wewe have the ceo of forest lob, brent saunders, he's been called the turn arou

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there are people like george soros who has done really innovative work.e get to meet the scientists working on this stuff. maybe the most amazing are the people out in the field who spend big parts of their life in africa taking these tools that we help back and making sure they get out there. >> also, you have to separate peoples' political interest from their willingness to help. there are some -- soros is clearly a liberal, i think is a fair way to say it. but the koch brothers are clearly conservative but they give enormous amounts of money to hospitals. >> and you say give them credit for that. >> yes. you don't have to agree with everythinge everybody does. i don't know if i agree with either side, but i think they all deserve credit. there are also a lot of people who aren't billionaires, who aren't even millionaires who write small checks or give their time. they work and lobby their elected officials to take government money and try to improve the health of everybody. they deserve an enormous amount of credit as well. >> anybody that feeds in to

george soros shines as manager of the world's most successful hedge fund. quantum endowment, made 5.5 billion dollars in 20-13. soros actually stepped down from running quantum in 20-11, but remains a key player in the business. facebook's mark zuckerberg and his wife priscilla chen are named the country's most generous philanthropists. the couple donated $970 million worth of facebook stock to a silicon valley nonprofit in 20- 13. they top a list of the 50 most generous americans -- all told those 50 donated nearly $8 billion last year. still ahead-- a trader says whole foods may deliver a surprise to investors on earnings day...why he's nibbling on the stock now...that's just ahead in chart talk. i'm going to pass chemistry, and i'll take it from there. i'm going to do what makes me happy. i'm going to work hard. be independent. live large. make the most of every opportunity. i knew i wanted to go to college. but figuring out how to pay for it? i didn't have a clue. the u.s. department of education has over $100 billion. and that's a lot of money. to help

the ford foundation the george soros open society foundation and how they contribute to and shields who are committed to creating a climate of confrontation. edwin black's presentation came about with the help of european jewish problem and coach at joel rubin felt. we us and know what he hoped likes presentation with no teeth now it's a good man though for your kind comments so that we would do all the school. to follow up and go it alone it's because they were the baby is a nine pan and heat pisa in the room and the dance no knowledge as no new information. and i'm sure they would be between one as well and then said oh look at me peace one such nep was likely to miss key. he also helped organize and complex events. he says he'll bring bikes investigation into the eu high representative for foreign affairs catherine ashton. i know that right to a parliamentary question. to minimize time to ask about the reaction up of the european union. now about to facts which were posted and assembled his dad decides really shocking that using the navy still be a limited reaction seeing as many eur

you know george soros puts money in. the progressive politics he's going to see his taxes go up so the only investment i i was in a meeting that he was in once and he made a comment to the effect of that. and it was kind of a paraphrase of some answer to the german businessman one say that he didn't want to be a rich man in a poor country and so you know the quality of life of the entire country is improved yeah and but that's not quite as tangible as hey i put in one hundred million i get back seven hundred million how do we deal with money and politics i mean it's thirty eight years ago last week it's the buckley case you know well it was. four years ago last week was the week before it was citizens united. when we got legislator named john sarbanes who's doing a good job moving forward on a bill that would get create publicly financed campaigns and so you know if you so we can put the person who still maybe fifty or one hundred dollars on the thing footing is somebody who might donate more but it would be public subsi

along with some other big name hedge fund honchos like george soros and download they've taken the other side of the bet and done much much better herbalife shares were a six percent in early trading monday after the company said it increased its share repurchase program from five hundred million to one point five billion dollars herbalife considers itself a multilevel marketer and strongly denies allegations that it's a pyramid scheme the f.t.c. says quote a company can be.

for well over a year however carl icahn along with some other big name hedge fund honchos like george soros and download they've taken the other side of the bet and done much much better herbalife shares were up six percent in early trading monday after the company said it increased its share repurchase program from five hundred million to one point five billion dollars herbalife considers itself a multilevel marketer and strongly denies allegations that it's a pyramid scheme the f.t.c. says quote a company can be considered a pyramid scheme if it's just repeaters make more money from her prevent them from selling products to consumers outside the network senator ed markey lease sent the letter sent a letter to the f.t.c. last week asking them to investigate herbalife and according to brant wilkes executive director of the league of united latin american citizens more than a dozen activists from around the country will be meeting with ramirez in washington on wednesday now the ramirez meeting is just the latest in efforts by critics of herbalife to pressure regulators into investigating the

and every time i cover the koch brothers on the show people write me asking when i'm an expose george soros i mean is there anyone on the left that's doing as much political damage as the koch's are on the right. well the problem is that the left is not really responding that is for example the devotes family which was part of the funding be that pooling their money with the koch brothers their amway products they put forty four million dollars into michigan. politics this is the center of the u.s. auto industry the center of american unionism and yet they just passed a horrendous right to work what's called the right to work law basically it prohibits contracts between unions and businesses which say that if you're part of the con union contract you have to be part of the union. where were the where was the other side so you have millions and millions coming from all over the country pouring in to basically slice up and destroy the union power and yet there was no one on the other side not even the obama administration for example which you know in the auto bailout they used right wing rep

george soros trimmed his state. it appears may be to take some profits off the table.een down this year. a little more trouble this year. china overhang and people trying to figure out what will happen there in terms of new rules on mlm's perhaps. i think it is being seen by people i talk to see it as pulling off -- money off the table for right now. and the big question is whether george soros is having second thoughts but there does not seem to be real clear evidence on that. >> herbalife in china growing like gangbusters. is this a surprise? >> china has been one of the new 's includingr mlm;' herbalife. these numbers came in before you had the issues that came about whereecember with newskin there were reports of government was looking into practices, perhaps distributors doing the wrong thing, some would say at the behest of the company. the company says that a few might have been making mistakes. you've got reports of that china is going to be maybe proposing new rules. the numbers came in. china was really good for herbalife. my understanding, talking to the com

george soros, they took howard ward 101.our optimism to be in the market right now given the walls of worry out there. economy continues to move forward now. this year looking for gdp roads north of three percent, could be close to four percent. -- gdp growth north of three close to fourd be percent. from the standpoint of the economy, we are doing pretty well. we had a little bit of a hiccup in the past few weeks. part of the data we saw with payrolls. that was impacted by weather. we got three different surveys last week. the establishment survey that gets the most attention. the household survey and the adp survey cannot be dismissed. the household survey and 638,000. >> i want to go to the heart of the psychology. you and i would hang on every word rum sir johnson tumbled 10 -- sir johnson templeton. he would say shares are on sale. that is exactly what they are but we are scared stiff. >> this is a unique time in history where we have very low inflation, one percent inflation, low interest rates, growing gdp and profits

. >> george soros has a new favorite.ing microsoft with an israeli drugmaker, he added almost 6 million shares in teva pharmaceutical. teva is now soros's biggest holding. it represents 4%. shares have really 10% this year. is advancing in tokyo after announcing it expects profits to double to $300 million next fiscal year. the carrier is planning to step up its cost-cutting drive and adding new routes in asia. gree is outmaker with results. net estimates beat analyst -- net income beat analyst estimates. it wasmber, gree said looking at acquisitions outside of gaming. those were the top or print headlines. >> let's stay with the gaming theme. did you know that out of all the apps downloaded these days, more than half our games? we have broken it all down by the numbers. still to come, if it is too good to be true it is not. it is what our next guest is saying about china's trade data. ♪ >> so much for fears of a credit crunch in china. aggregate financing soared to a record last month. lending -- new bank lending also up

earlier the fact is that people who have made a tremendous amount of money in these markets like george soros for example or warren buffett will do exactly the opposite to what the the shrieking crowd is doing so you see the shrinkers that they have a use if you're in the business of making money because they tend to sell the bottom and buy at the top so in the case of bitcoin the shrinks are quite loud which is a contrarian point of view the absolute best time to get into a big coin are brought my price target is still in the short term fourteen hundred dollars and in the medium term more like ten thousand dollars per bitcoin as the adoption rate skyrockets and you have all these other businesses that are not plugging into bitcoin all the venture capital is plugging into the big block chain so two years from now ten thousand dollars per bitcoin i think is in the bag now speaking of shriekers one of the most famous streakers of all time jim cramer remember during the early days of the financial crisis he went on to see m.p.c. had a total meltdown shrieked about this is no time to be an academ

george soros boosted his stake in apple and we saw tudor investment cutting its stake in apple.hlights we saw from these filings. for on the markets, i am julie hyman.

but should we be regulating whether it's george soros or it's david koch should we be regulated it's let me let me just back this up a little bit and this is the way i think most americans are looking at it. back before the reagan revolution every. shopping center every down town was filled with small local mom and pop businesses thirty years later since reagan stopped in force and sherman antitrust act it's all you know basically a handful of corporations that own basically the entire retail sector in america in every other sector so we've seen our economy go from a fairly free market economy to basically an olive gonna me a an economy run by oligarchy three four companies to dominate basically every industry in america similarly we have seen back you know when reagan came into office there were only three hundred registered lobbyist in the city there was you know there was only a few million dollars being sent out and spent on a presidential election now here we are thirty two years later two billion dollars elections thirty five thousand lobbyists and so are our democracy has beco

but about '01% of the '01% like tom perkins, michael bloomberg, a george soros contributing more than0 percent of all money spent in the 2012 election cycle. 40 percent of all money spent in the 2012 cycle compared to only 15 percent in the tv the. -- 9080. tuned the trajectory for the 1% of the 1% is comforting and more than adequate compensation for the constitutional burden of putting up with the equal rights of the other 99.9% and of that i want to present a certain. time to look your comments. talk about the latest polls. >> it is reported that mr. obama but who is under water with every possible scenario how can he be under water who can walk on water? excellent point*. >> is there in the law obama the cannot suspend delay modify or ignore? we have not done the close enough examination but it appears the answer is no. >> i have just finished reading your book "upheaval" the should be required reading for the president and all members of congress. well done. lou: contact us on our social sites. lou@loudobbs.com follow us on twitter and go to the facebook page. free copies of "uph

but about '01% of the '01% like tom perkinsmichael bloomberg, a george soros contributing more than 40 of all money spen in the 2012 election cycle. 40 percent of all money spent in the 2012 cycle compared to only 15 percent in the tv the. -- 9080. tuned the trajectory for the 1% of the 1% is comforting and more than adequate compention for the nstitutional burden of putting up with the equal rights of the other 99.9% and of that i want to present a certai. time to look your comments. talk about the late polls. >> it is reported that mr. obama but who is under water with every possible scenario how can he be under water who can walk on water? excellent pot*. >> is there in the law obama the cannot suspend delay modi or ignore? we have n done the close enough examination but it appears the answer is no. >> i have just finished reading your book "upheaval" the shou be required reading for e president and all members congress. well done. lou: contact us on our social sites. lou@loudobbs.com follow us on twitter and go to the facebookage. free copies of "upheaval" to all offers of the comm