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   Warren Buffett

   Buffett favors the inheritance tax, saying that repealing it would be like "choosing the 2020 Olympic team by picking the eldest sons of the gold-medal winners in the 2000 Olympics". ... From a NY Times article: "I don't believe in dynastic wealth," [Warren Buffett] said, calling those who grow up in wealthy circumstances "members of the lucky sperm club."
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   Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008

   Bank runs are taking place under the radar, he said. ... Investor Warren Buffett says he could put in $10B plus $90B nonrecourse debt; that is, without having to repay beyond $10B if mortgages did not repay.
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   Proposed bailout of United States financial system (2008)

   Bank runs are taking place under the radar, he said. ... Investor Warren Buffett says he could put in $10B plus $90B nonrecourse debt (without having to repay beyond $10B, if mortgages did not repay.
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   Proposed bailout of United States financial system

   Investor Warren Buffett says he could put in $10B plus $90B nonrecourse debt; that is, without having to repay beyond $10B if mortgages did not repay. ... He also said,
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   Proposed bailout of U.S. financial system (2008)

   Bank runs are taking place under the radar, he said. ... Investor Warren Buffett says he could put in $10B plus $90B nonrecourse debt (without having to repay beyond $10B, if mortgages did not repay.
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   Benjamin Graham

   According to Warren Buffett, Benjamin Graham said that he wished every day to do something foolish, something creative, and something generous. Warren Buffett said that Graham excelled most at the last.
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   Stock selection criteria

   Buffett notes that because companies usually retain a portion of their earnings, the assets a profitable company owns, should increase annually. ... He argued that debt is “the weak link that snaps you."
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   Economic crisis of 2008

   In March 2008, Warren Buffett stated in a CNBC interview that by a "common sense definition", the U.S. economy is already in a recession. ... Fitch said the current account deficit was likely to widen further as prices of gas imports rise and prices of its steel exports fall and said Ukraine was likely to need to borrow more at a time when global debt markets have ground to a virtual standstill.
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   Paulson financial rescue plan

   While incremental borrowing to obtain the funds necessary to purchase the MBS may add to the U.S. public debt, the net effect will be considerably less as the incremental debt will be offset to a large extent by the MBS assets. ... Warren Buffett said he wholehearedly supported the plan.
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    History of private equity and venture capital

    Warren Buffett, who is typically described as a stock market investor rather than a private equity investor, employed many of the same techniques in the creation on his Berkshire Hathaway conglomerate as Posner's DWG Corporation and in later years by more traditional private equity investors. ... Lower interest rates would encourage investors to return to relatively dormant high-yield debt and leveraged loan markets, making debt more readily available to finance buyouts.

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