FEC records show $5,000 from Lasry to HILLPAC, Hillary’s political action committee, thousands more to Hillary’s senate campaign, and thousands more to Hillary’s presidential campaign.

Since Soros is a major supporter of the secretive Democracy Alliance, a group backed by rich liberals who fund a network of liberal-left groups dedicated to electing Democrats to the White House and Congress, could the discussion have also been political in nature?

The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday ran a fascinating front-page story about John A. Paulson, a Wall Street trader who has made billions of dollars betting that the housing market would collapse. The Journal says that Paulson personally made between $3 and $4 billion.

John Edwards took some criticism when it became known that he had gone to work for a hedge fund. As noted by the Washington Post, “The hedge fund that employed John Edwards markedly expanded its subprime lending business while he worked there.

Paulson is now telling investors “it’s still not too late” to bet on more economic problems. These are capitalists who seem to have a vested interest in the further decline of the U.S. economy.

We may not know much about Paulson, but we know a lot about Soros. He is a financial manipulator, convicted of illegal insider trading in France for playing financial games with a bank there.