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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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   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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   Benjamin Graham

   Warren Buffett said that Graham excelled most at the last. ... The Journal of Political Economy 51 (1): 66–69. doi:10.2307/1826594.
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   Paulson financial rescue plan

   It is financial socialism and it's un-American," said Sen. Jim Bunning, R-Ky. ... Warren Buffett said he wholehearedly supported the plan.
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   Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008

   Opponents of the rescue plan argue that since the problems of the American economy were created by excess credit and debt, a massive infusion of credit and debt into the economy only excaberates the problems with the economy. ... 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 U.S. financial system (2008)

   Proponents of the plan argue that the urgent, dramatic intervention called for by the plan is vital to prevent further erosion of confidence in the U.S. credit markets and that failure to act could lead to a significant downturn in the economy. ... 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 (2008)

   Proponents of the plan argue that the urgent, dramatic intervention called for by the plan is vital to prevent further erosion of confidence in the U.S. credit markets and that failure to act could lead to a significant downturn in the economy. ... 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

   Some economists have predicted that the bailout would cause hyperinflation and dollar collapse.Others have stated that the U.S. economy is at a tipping point and that the effect of not performing the financial rescue could be devastating. ... 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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   Alan Greenspan

   George Soros and Warren Buffett criticized derivatives while Greenspan defended them. ... The article attracted a number of critical responses from forum contributors, which consists of some of the world’s leading economists (including two Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences winners, Edmund Phelps and Joseph Stiglitz), who, finding causation between Greenspan's policies and the discontinuities in financial markets that followed, criticized Greenspan mainly for what many believed to be his unbalanced and immovable ideological suppositions about global capitalism and free competitive markets.
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    United States housing bubble

    Based on slumping sales and prices in August 2006, economist Nouriel Roubini warned that the housing sector is in "free fall" and will derail the rest of the economy, causing a recession in 2007. ... ↑ "Buffett: Real estate slowdown ahead", CNNMoney.com (2006-05-08).

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• Alan Greenspan,
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