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To: tejek who wrote (774800)3/13/2014 9:17:10 PM
From: Brumar89  Respond to of 1571685
 
Warren Buffet started bellying up to the trough when Obama took office:

The World's Most Famous Investor Is Now Investing in...
March 11, 2014, 8:29 pm
... government access. Clearly Warren Buffet saw the writing on the wall in 2009, that the way to make money in the US was no longer to build products and factories but to invest in lobbying to get crony advantages and giveaways.



This Administration and Senate makes all kinds of progressive noises, but all the while they are running perhaps the greatest expansion of cronyism in US history. And the smart money knows it.

http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2014/03/the-worlds-most-famous-investor-is-now-investing-in.html

What has he gotten? Well, just off the top of my head, the Keystone XL pipeline has been stalled boosting oil traffic on a railroad he owns:

Buffett Railroad Sees Crude Cargo Climbing 40%
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-08/buffett-railroad-sees-crude-cargo-climbing-40-.html

Possibly his most profitable investment: Barack Obama



To: tejek who wrote (774800)3/14/2014 11:03:31 AM
From: Taro  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1571685
 
Easy, easy: They make an extremely good brandy there! Moldavian 'Cognac' has always been highly appreciated by - Russians, of course - and conaisseurs in the West as well. Always on the shelves in East Germany (DDR) at aro 13 East Mark.

/Taro