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- Warren Buffet's offer is good for Buffett
  Posted by SoxFirst
  Warren Buffett triggered a Wall Street rally when he offered to bail out troubled bond insurers in the US. But when you look at the deal closer, it's actually better for Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway than it is for the market.
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- Buffett bonding
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  Warren Buffett plans to make a buck out of the turmoil in the financial markets by establishing a bond insurance firm with the goal of giving local governments a cheaper borrowing option. And he might force government agencies to clean up their financial performance.
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- Buffett defends corporates at "Woodstock for capitalists"
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  Warren Buffett had some uncomfortable moments at the Berkshire Hathaway’s AGM when he was questioned about his ethical standards.
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- Sox First: Ethics from the top: Warren Buffett's ethics lesson
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  Warren Buffett has told his managers to step up their efforts to stop unethical practices. The memorandum comes a week before Hewlett-Packard chairwoman Patricia Dunn’s indictment and one week after four of his own executives were charged with participating in a scheme to rig AIG’s accounts. Buffett knows that a fish rots from the head.
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- Buffett is 'Dr. Mengele of philanthropists'
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  Warren Buffett's new philanthropic alliance with fellow billionaire Bill Gates won widespread praise this week, but anti-abortion activists did not join in, instead assailing the two donors for their longtime support of Planned Parenthood and international birth-control programs.
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- Buffett gives $37 billion to Gates and family foundations
  Posted by Billbar from Reuters
  Warren Buffett, the world's second-richest person, is donating about $37 billion -- more than 80 percent of his fortune -- to foundations run by his friend Bill Gates and by the Buffett family. The move is the biggest-ever single act of charitable giving in the United States.
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- Warren Buffett gives away his fortune
  Posted by Billbar from CNN
  The world's second richest man - who's now worth $44 billion - tells editor-at-large Carol Loomis he will start giving away 85% of his wealth in July - most of it to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Leon Gettler is a blogger and senior business journalist at The Age, specializing on management issues. His latest book, Organisations Behaving Badly focuses on the forces that lead smart executives into making dumb decisions.
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