Mahathir still hates currency traders - decades after crisis
He once called them 'unscrupulous profiteers' in an 'immoral' line of work
Singapore
AS THE Asian financial crisis raged on two decades ago, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad committed economic heresy by rejecting an International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout and slapping capital controls on global investors.
Dr Mahathir blasted currency traders as "unscrupulous profiteers" in an "immoral" line of work. Billionaire hedge fund manager George Soros, who bet big and won big against the British pound in 1992, returned fire, predicting that Dr Mahathir's policies would be a "recipe for disaster".
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