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...crisis on Wall Street. The moment seemed to cry out for someone to make sense of it all. Instead McCain and Obama explained how they would amend a draft of the bailout legislation. Then they got up the next morning and tried to negotiate a joint statement urging patriotic calm...
...surveys the economy: "It's not the time for fear or panic." Image is a very real part of the presidency, and it seems safe to say now, nearly two years into this campaign, that President Obama would do well should times call for unruffled calm. He wore a gray suit that fit like a mother's caress, nary a wrinkle or bead of sweat visible, and spoke in the same laconic tone you might use to discuss the weather with a co-worker while sorting your e-mail at the same time. He met the press in Clearwater...
First of all, that is a number which we think is big enough to calm the markets. We think it-in terms of the assets outstanding-it's enough to do the job. And again, here we're not talking about using all of the $700 billion, and it would be paced out over a period of time. And remember this is not a spending program. This is purchasing assets, holding those assets, reselling those assets, and the money coming back to the government...
That was a situation where thank goodness that I had the powers from Congress and we were able to move quickly and stabilize the situation before we got into last week and mortgage rates have remained calm. Yeah, I and everyone else placed Fannie and Freddie debt. We didn't create this system and this was a mess that had to be cleaned up. And that is something that I'm proud of, Ben Bernanke's proud of, Jim Lockhardt, the regulator - not proud that the situation happened, but proud that we were able to move quickly enough...
...Buffett, the book reveals, isn't always the calm, calculating figure we know as head of the storied investment firm Berkshire Hathaway. He could be an emotionally needy husband and an absentee father, a man who purposely avoids people he fears might criticize...