Apr 06, 2009 -
Warren Buffett Profits Heavily from TARP funds
Richard Henry Lee
Warren Buffett promoted the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP), and lambasted the greed on Wall Street, yet he is one of the main benefactors of the TARP largesse according to a Sacramento Bee story.
Buffett endorsed Barack Obama for President last year, and Obama tapped Buffett to be a member of the candidate's economic team. Obama requently referred to Buffett's endorsement during the campaign as proof that he had the capability to deal with the troubled US economy.
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Mar 10, 2009 -
Kausfiles (Slate Magazine)
Obama Buffetted
First Time The MSM Has Ever Ignored Warren Buffett: The press accounts I've read have wildly underplayed Obama supporter Warren Buffet's criticism of the President on CNBC today. It's fairly pointed, and Buffett comes back to it, suggesting he has a message he's trying to deliver. [E.A.]:
BUFFETT: ...And, Joe, it--if you're in a war, and we really are on an economic war, there's a obligation to the majority to behave in ways that don't go around inflaming the minority.
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Nov 15, 2009 -
Bill and Melinda Gates with Warren Buffett, the three biggest charitable donors in history and not a religious thought between them. Not everybody needs a religion to do good.
“All religions lie to people in some form; the big lie is that those who do not follow the religion are not good people.”
“There are good people everywhere.
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Mar 01, 2009 -
Buffett says U.S. Treasury bubble one for the ages
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Warren Buffett, whose Berkshire Hathaway Inc sits on $25.54 billion (17.8 billion pounds) of cash, said worried investors are making a costly mistake by buying up U.S. Treasuries that yield almost nothing.
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Jun 15, 2009 -
Durbin cashed out during big stock collapse
WASHINGTON | Asset sales came after meeting with Fed, Treasury chiefs
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June 13, 2009
As U.S. stock markets plummeted last September, the Senate's No. 2 Democrat, Dick Durbin, sold more than $115,000 worth of stocks and mutual-fund shares and used much of the money to invest in Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
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Jun 04, 2009 -
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Medical bills are behind more than 60 percent of U.S. personal bankruptcies, U.S. researchers reported on Thursday in a report they said demonstrates that healthcare reform is on the wrong track.
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Nov 06, 2008 -
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
And so it came to pass that on Nov. 4, 2008, shortly after 11 p.m.
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Jun 02, 2009 -
The moment is overdue for us to become moral and worthy ancestors.
By Peter G. Peterson
In 2007 the company I cofounded, the Blackstone Group, held a most successful public offering.
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Apr 28, 2008 -
(my personal comment: Mars is heaquartered in Hackettstown, NJ. I toured the plant... what I heavenly smell!)
Mars Reportedly Near Deal to Acquire Wrigley
By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN
Published: April 28, 2008
NY Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/28/business/28wrigley.html?th&emc=th
Mars, the makers of M&M’s, was near a deal last night to acquire the Wm.
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Mar 16, 2009 -
Young President in a Hurry
Why Obama wants to move fast.
by Fred Barnes
President Obama must be irked. The media and other Obama allies like Warren Buffett are on his case for the first time, insisting he's in too big a hurry to enact his entire domestic agenda.
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