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Warren Buffett’s Testomony WASHINGTON—Berkshire Hathaway’s Warren Buffett, the fabled investor, has introduced the largest deal of his life: He’ll purchase the stake he doesn’t already personal in Burlington Northern Santa Fe, the railroad operator, for $26.6 billion and assume the…
The Fed’s Woody Allen Coverage Efforts to stoke a restoration could also be creating new asset bubbles in equities and elsewhere. Within the Woody Allen movie “Annie Corridor,” the principle character tries to elucidate irrational relationships by recounting an previous…
The Fed’s Woody Allen Coverage Within the Woody Allen movie “Annie Corridor,” the principle character tries to elucidate irrational relationships by recounting an outdated joke. “This man goes to a psychiatrist and says, ‘My brother’s loopy, he thinks he’s a…
The Poisonous Tongue WASHINGTON—Barack Obama, whose political fortunes are being overturned by a tide of nationwide frustration that started spreading earlier than he took workplace, has adopted a populist stance towards the mighty bankers. However his proposals towards the evils…
Bernanke Agonistes President Obama pulled out all of the stops to clinch Senate approval of his nomination of Ben S. Bernanke to a second four-year time period as chairman of the Federal Reserve. Now that the president appears to have…
Paulson and the Worry Issue WASHINGTON—There’s a second in former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson’s memoirs when—throughout a Capitol Hill dialogue over a monetary rescue plan—he succumbs to emphasize and suffers an assault of dry heaves in entrance of a U.S.…
No Restoration Till America Invests Once more Whereas most Individuals are conversant in the broad ups and downs of the financial system and the job market—the stuff of day by day headlines—the deeper story of the persevering with recession will…
Fabulous Fab WASHINGTON—The world has been craving to place a reputation and a face to the monetary quackery. We’d like a flesh-and-blood criminal. The financial institution CEOs—grey, previous, predictable—weren’t sufficient. Bernie Madoff was an abhorrent byproduct, not a core participant.…
Mr. Obama and the Bankers: “Doin’ What Comes Natur’lly” Talking to a really receptive Elyria, Ohio, crowd just a few months in the past, President Obama took off the gloves and promised that he was able to combat to offer…
Crony Capitalism Is NOT Capitalism It’s all the present vogue to dump on “capitalism.” It was the grasping free market, supposedly, that created each the housing bubble and the housing bust and led, inevitably, to the “nice recession.” Capitalism, in…
