You may be very mad at some guy that walked away with a huge golden parachute, but that … - Howard Warren Buffett

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You may be very mad at some guy that walked away with a huge golden parachute, but that really isn't the important thing. I mean, if Pearl Harbor came along, you could have said the planning was wrong by the military ahead of time or maybe the battleships shouldn't have all been in the harbor and all that kind of thing.

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When the Federal government buys the mortgages, they're not spending it, they're investing it.

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I don't think it would be crazy to have a model or an entity model on the Reconstruction Finance Corp. That goes back to 1932, although it was really implemented in '33 under Jesse Jones, and it invested in mostly banks initially and preferred stock and that sort of thing.

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Any time I can be of help to the government in terms of giving advice -I've given a little advice, actually.

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You can go back to tulip bulbs in Holland 400 years ago. The human beings going through combinations of fear and greed and all of that sort of thing, their behavior can lead to bubbles. And it may have had and Internet bubble at one time, you've had a farm bubble, farmland bubble in the Midwest which resulted in all kinds of tragedy in the early '80s.

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The good thing is, we have household formation in this country. We have a country where I don't know whether it's a million households a year or more, but good form.

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