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cory777 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-27-10 09:29 PM Original message |
Buffett: Execs should pay price for risky bets |
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laughingliberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-27-10 09:31 PM Response to Original message |
1. Rec nt |
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wroberts189 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-27-10 09:34 PM Response to Original message |
2. off to the greatest with ya knr/nt |
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bvar22 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-27-10 09:52 PM Response to Original message |
3. What?..Someone else "begrudging" their MIllions... |
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DisgustedInMN (956 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 09:49 AM Response to Reply #3 |
19. There ya go! |
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liberation (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-27-10 09:58 PM Response to Original message |
4. Funny, coming from one of the major investors in Goldman Sachs... |
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4lbs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 05:48 AM Response to Reply #4 |
13. Did you not read where B.H. lost a bunch of money in 2008 by doing that? |
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liberation (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 02:08 PM Response to Reply #13 |
25. Actually... Berkshire has done handsomelly off their Goldman investment |
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Enthusiast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 01:14 PM Response to Reply #4 |
23. I don't think we should |
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Psephos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 01:32 PM Response to Reply #4 |
24. He has donated 90% of all his money to charity. Not exactly my idea of greedy. n/t |
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liberation (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 02:09 PM Response to Reply #24 |
26. The Gates foundation is not a charity... |
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sulphurdunn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 05:58 PM Response to Reply #26 |
32. Agreed.. It is said, as an an apology of sorts, that |
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Psephos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 09:46 PM Response to Reply #26 |
39. This is the kind of B.S. that ideology causes otherwise intelligent people to spread. |
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bemildred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-27-10 10:23 PM Response to Original message |
5. Fire their asses when they fuck up. |
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Dr.Phool (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-27-10 10:28 PM Response to Original message |
6. What!!?? If they don't give them more salaries and bigger bounuses, |
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Moostache (905 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-27-10 11:35 PM Response to Original message |
7. Hear, hear!!! |
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SlingBlade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 12:05 AM Response to Original message |
8. So this is how the Gilded Age ends ! |
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Wapsie B (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 12:25 AM Response to Original message |
9. "But those salaries and bonuses are contractual obligations" |
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niceypoo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 01:13 AM Response to Original message |
10. It's quite obvious what need be done |
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Cessna Invesco Palin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 02:07 AM Response to Reply #10 |
12. What the hell is the point of that? n/t |
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JHB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 09:23 AM Response to Reply #12 |
14. It addresses the "too big to fail" problem n/t |
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mbperrin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 09:26 AM Response to Reply #14 |
16. Precisely! No longer too big to fail, problem solved. |
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JHB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 09:36 AM Response to Reply #16 |
18. I'm not so sure I'd use the word "solved"... |
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mbperrin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 10:59 AM Response to Reply #18 |
22. If there's just one bull, he's all over the cliff or he's okay. With many |
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Cessna Invesco Palin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 02:59 PM Response to Reply #14 |
28. So you think every bank rescued by FDIC should be broken up? |
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JHB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 03:36 PM Response to Reply #28 |
29. How many FDIC banks are "too big to fail"? |
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Cessna Invesco Palin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-01-10 03:38 PM Response to Reply #29 |
44. AFAIK the only institution to which that term has been applied is AIG. |
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niceypoo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 04:50 PM Response to Reply #28 |
30. I think every company bailed out by congress and the president |
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Cessna Invesco Palin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-01-10 03:36 PM Response to Reply #30 |
43. So how exactly would you suggest breaking up GM? |
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Overseas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 02:05 AM Response to Original message |
11. K&R . //nt |
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mbperrin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 09:25 AM Response to Original message |
15. Ahhh, he's just another bitter dead-ender begrudging geniuses like |
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JHB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 09:29 AM Response to Original message |
17. So does Buffet support rewriting the rules for board membership? |
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blondeatlast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 09:50 AM Response to Original message |
20. There is no arguing with B-H's success. Good for Mr. B-- |
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DailyGrind51 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 10:08 AM Response to Original message |
21. If a cashier comes up short in his/her cash drawer at the end of a shift, |
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ck4829 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 02:49 PM Response to Original message |
27. K&R |
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DissedByBush (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 04:53 PM Response to Original message |
31. This is the disconnect that is ruining capitalism |
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sam sarrha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 06:41 PM Response to Original message |
33. start simple.. if they lose more than they can personally pay back.. HANG THEM..!! |
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scottsoperson (224 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 08:27 PM Response to Reply #33 |
34. i am against capital punishment |
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niceypoo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 08:30 PM Response to Reply #34 |
35. Would he be against breaking up the 'too big to fail' companies? |
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scottsoperson (224 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 08:42 PM Response to Reply #35 |
36. let's see? |
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scottsoperson (224 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 08:49 PM Response to Reply #36 |
37. what about this? |
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scottsoperson (224 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 08:51 PM Response to Reply #37 |
38. tariffs were not such a good idea |
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sam sarrha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-01-10 11:12 PM Response to Reply #38 |
45. i'm talking about small single digit tarifs to fund education/training. people cant afford collage |
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sam sarrha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-01-10 12:42 AM Original message |
me to.. but we need examples for Psychopaths to live by or die from. |
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sam sarrha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-01-10 12:42 AM Response to Reply #34 |
40. ... dupe |
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scottsoperson (224 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-01-10 12:55 AM Response to Original message |
41. things could have been much worse |
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scottsoperson (224 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-01-10 01:01 AM Response to Reply #41 |
42. much worse |
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