Of Tulips and Gold: The Ron Paul Devolution Marches On

Warren Buffett tears into the gold buggery so favored by nuts like Ron Paul.  Mr. Buffett prefers productive to non-productive assets. The second major category of investments involves assets that will never produce anything, but that are purchased in the buyer’s hope that someone else – who also knows that the…

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Warren Buffett: stop coddling the super-rich

“My friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly Congress,” said Warren Buffett, one of the world’s three richest people, in an op-ed he wrote for the New York Times. Buffett continued, “It’s time for our government to get serious about shared sacrifice,” adding that he believes…

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Warren Buffett: “economy on slow path to recovery”

In an opinion column published in the New York Times today, billionaire investor Warren Buffet said the U.S. economy appears on a slow path to recovery, and he also added he “resoundingly approves” of the actions taken by the Federal Reserve and the Bush and Obama administrations to pump trillions…

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