Following on from my post above clarifying the situation with the newsweek article, someone posted above a sarcastic reference to Soros being an unelected person of influence from behind the scenes which I didn't understand. From the look of it, not only the 1998 60MIn doc (which refers to funding to 3 different countries for example) but from many other sources since then, none contested, not to mention the WEF activities, it seems clear that Soros does have a huge amount of influence on global issues - this fact is not a conspiracy theory in itself I don't think? There appears to be immense influence - if you are in doubt watch the doc (I linked above) and the other documentaries and information since then. But obviously he isn't the only wealthy person to have such influence - people refer to the Koch brothers, and Elon Musk, and there are many many others.
I think that what Soros says in the 1998 doc about the need for regulation around what he was doing in the money markets and the crashing of economies and so on was right. There have been other issues in the banking world. For example, for every transaction where there was senior and junior debt (ie thousands per year) you had for many years (still have?) a situation where the debt in each agreement is then sold on, packaged, resold, subdebts created, meaning that due to the complexities this produced and the complexities of the derivatives software meant that it woudl be impossible to unravel the debt situation - the ramifications of this are clearly serious. I am not sure if this is still the case - I know that there were a lot of warnings about it.
Basically I think that the same situation (around difficulties in unravelling) applies to behind the scenes funding as well, sometimes - where there is funding by one group which has been funding by another which has been funded by another and by the time you have worked out what has gone on, the event has passed, or people think they are dealing with one group and in fact it turns out it is backed by an entirely different group, or there is a momentous push in relation to a certain social group which seems to come out of nowhere and changes are made to, say, education, prematurely, and then many months later it turns out that literally billions has been given to the interest group and this was why it happened so quickly, and so on. I am talking here in general terms, not about specifics. A lot of people think that the situation re media in relation to funding and interest groups has also got out of hand, and some way to absolutely ensure a degre of neutrality needs to be found. Group company structures show which company is owned by whom, like a family tree - this is also needed with funding interest groups, charities, media, everything, just as clearly and in an immediately accessible way.
So basically I am agreeing with Soros here about the concept of regulation, though he was only talking about the finance world, I think that the same concept would logically apply to any behind the scenes funding. Funding is fine, but transparency and easily accessible and clear information is needed at the time the funding is made, going right back to the root funder if there are trails of groups funding other groups who fund the interest group for example.