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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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   Benjamin Graham

   In Security Analysis, he proposed a clear definition of investment that was distinguished from what he deemed speculation. ... Warren Buffett said that Graham excelled most at the last.
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   Berkshire Hathaway

   Warren Buffett is the company's chairman and CEO. ... As Buffett said in his 1995 shareholder letter:
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   Paulson financial rescue plan

   He also stated: "Purchasing impaired assets will create liquidity and promote price discovery in the markets for these assets, while reducing investor uncertainty about the current value and prospects of financial institutions. ... Warren Buffett said he wholehearedly supported the plan.
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   Sam Nunn

   In an interview with CNBC on August 22, 2008, billionaire investor Warren Buffett said that he favored Nunn as Obama's choice for Vice President. ... Wikisource has original works written by or about:
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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. ... Standard & Poor's said on July 30, 2008 that 70,000 homeowners were in negative equity and it could rise to 1.7 million or about one in six homeowners in the UK based on an expected 17 percent decline into 2009.
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   The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life

   The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life (ISBN 0553805096) is a biography about Warren Buffett. ... Although the media track him constantly, Buffett himself has never told his full life story.
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   Ajit Jain

   Jain working in Stamford, remains in close contact with Buffett, who said at a May 7, 2006 news conference, "I still do talk to him every day. ... ↑ "Warren Buffett's 2001 Chairman Letter".
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   Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008

   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. ... Known aspects of the capitalization program "suggest that the government may be loosely defining what constitutes healthy institutions. [... Banks] that have been profitable over the last year are the most likely to receive capital.
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    Value investing

    During about a 25-year period (1965-90), published research and articles in leading journals of the value ilk were few. Warren Buffett once commented, "You couldn't advance in a finance department in this country unless you taught that the world was flat."

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• Paulson financial rescue plan,
• Sam Nunn,
• Economic crisis of 2008,
• The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life,
• Ajit Jain,
• Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008,
• Value investing