In an October 23, 2009 interview with Chrystia Freeland of the Financial Times, George Soros advocated a “new global currency system,” and called the decline of the dollar necessary. Under Soros’ new system, China would figure prominently in the creation of a new world financial order. “You need a new world order that China has to be part…they have to buy in, they have to own it in the same way that the United States owns the current order,” opined Soros. The man who once bet against the British pound stopped short of predicting the end of the dollar but characterized a managed decline in the value of the dollar as a "healthy, if painful adjustment," citing the United States as a drag on the world economy. He further conceded that the coordinated policies of the G20 have helped move the world in the direction of establishing a new financial world order. 

When asked about the financial reforms in the United States, Soros called for greater bank regulation opining that financial markets do not “tend towards equilibrium,” but rather are prone to create asset “bubbles.”  Soros also advocated compensation regulation at the so-called “too-big-to-fail” institutions like Goldman Sachs.

As Charles Scaliger noted in his article "The Diminishing Dollar" in The New American magazine for November 9:

In the race to the bottom toward achieving a 100 percent socialistic nanny state, the United Kingdom still seems to be leading the United States with the latest ruling: Parents at council recreation areas are banned from play areas because they might be pedophiles.

The task of watching over the children has been assigned to “Play Rangers” instead, who have been vetted by the police through criminal background checks. "Please stay back madame, we're in charge now. You can see your child through the fencing."

Mums and Dads excluded from the now fenced-off play areas can only gain entry by submitting to a criminal background check and being issued a government certificate.

The White House estimates that over a half million jobs were created or saved because of the stimulus package, but it is getting another look, as the numbers seem to be inaccurate, and evidence shows that stimulus money was used for projects that had nothing to do with establishing permanent jobs.

On Recovery.gov, the White House reported that 640,329 jobs have been created or saved via the September 20 stimulus allocation of $159 billion. Offering a disclaimer that the numbers might not be exactly perfect, officials blame state and local municipalities for the discrepancies, and plan to scrub the numbers clean, as they trumpet their newest transparency act.

California was on top of the White House’s blame list, saying it reported that 250 jobs were saved as the funds were used to hire workers to build additional train tracks for the Union Pacific Railroad. That number has since been adjusted to 74 jobs. In addition, the Denver Post says the numbers didn’t add up for the state of Colorado either.