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Warren Buffett

Paulson & Buffett Agree: “TARP Funds Saved Our Asses, But Not Yours”

February 13, 2010

Legendary investor Warren Buffett played host last week to former Treasury chief Henry Paulson, who was in Omaha flakking his new book: On The Brink: How I Raped The Taxpayers And Saved My Pals At Goldman Sachs. A crowd of 2,400 people, many of whom still have jobs, attended the annual meeting of the Greater [...]

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Warren Buffett Changes His Tune

September 20, 2009

In the midst of the worst recession since the Great Depression, the financial community is watching Warren Buffett’s latest moves, anxious for indications that the Wizard of Omaha believes a recovery is underway.
Unfortunately, Buffett is cutting back on buying stocks and thinking about purchasing all of Wall Street, instead, because he doesn’t like the [...]

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Berkshire Investors Won’t Lose Their Shorts, Says Buffett

May 4, 2009

Omaha’s Warren Buffett received the capitalist faithful here over the weekend at the annual Berkshire Hathaway Convention, held at Omaha’s Qwest Center. Over 35,000 shareholders converged on the Mid-Heartlands to rally behind their Chairman, the Wizard and Oracle of Omaha. Shareholders were unperturbed that Berkshire’s stock, which last year reached a high of nearly [...]

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Buffett Purchases Europe

March 31, 2009

At this week’s G20 meeting being held in London and hosted by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown to discuss the global economic crisis, French president Nicolas Sarkozy and German chancellor Angela Merkel threatened to boycott the summit early today after seeing fish and chips on the menu. Quoting Voltaire’s famous pronouncement that “England has [...]

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