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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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   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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   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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   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. ... Just after midnight Sunday, September 28, leaders of the Senate and House, along with Treasury Secretary Paulson, announced a tentative deal had been reached to permit the government purchase of up to $700 billion in mortgage backed securities to provide liquidity to the security holders, and to stabilize U.S. financial firms and markets.
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   Paulson financial rescue plan

   United States Department of the Treasury ... Warren Buffett said he wholehearedly supported the plan.
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   David Dodd

   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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   Sam Nunn

   His legislative achievements include the landmark Department of Defense Reorganization Act, drafted with the late Senator Barry Goldwater, and the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Program, which provides assistance to Russia and the former Soviet republics for securing and destroying their excess nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. ... 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.
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   Proposed bailout of U.S. financial system (2008)

   Investor Warren Buffett says he could put in $10B plus $90B nonrecourse debt (without having to repay beyond $10B, if mortgages did not repay. ... Joshua Rosner, managing director of Graham Fisher & Co., says there is plenty of liquidity out in the open market to purchase these securities when the price becomes cheap enough and the people shorting the securities will buy them at that point.
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   Proposed bailout of United States financial system (2008)

   Investor Warren Buffett says he could put in $10B plus $90B nonrecourse debt (without having to repay beyond $10B, if mortgages did not repay. ... Joshua Rosner, managing director of Graham Fisher & Co., says there is plenty of liquidity out in the open market to purchase these securities when the price becomes cheap enough and the people shorting the securities will buy them at that point.
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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. ... Joshua Rosner, managing director of Graham Fisher & Co., says there is plenty of liquidity out in the open market to purchase these securities when the price becomes cheap enough and the people shorting the securities will buy them at that point.

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• Sam Nunn,
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• Proposed bailout of United States financial system (2008),
• Proposed bailout of United States financial system