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...News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch and Wal-Mart chief executive Michael Duke. Bill Gates, GE chairman Jeffrey Immelt and Warren Buffett also make the top 15. Posted on Mon, Nov. 23, 2009 10:15 PM The hotel business could be in for a...

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Buffett poured billions into preferred shares of General Electric ( GE - news - people ) and Goldman Sachs ( GS - news - people ) in late 2008--bets that looked questionable as the market continued to slide, but have paid off in a big way.

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...about a year ago. He heralded a $5 billion investment in financial giant Goldman Sachs Group amid the financial crisis last fall, and he trumpeted a $3 billion buy into General Electric Co. barely a week after that. The key difference...

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...infrastructure. " During the financial crisis of last year, Mr. Buffett spent $14.5 billion to buy preferred shares of three blue-chip American companies, Wrigley, General Electric and Goldman Sachs. These companies didn't get Mr....

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...or 60% of his entire stock portfolio, are Dow components. This figure does not even include the three-billion dollar warrants and preferred shares from GE that he owns. There are two main areas of contention with my argument. First,...

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...prompt him to sell some of his other investments, which include a wide range of companies from Coca-Cola Co to General Electric Co, some Buffett watchers said. By betting on BNSF, Buffett -- the world's second-richest person and a long-time...

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...for redistributing income. It is no surprise that a smartie like Warren Buffett has taken big stakes in companies that got a lot of federal money, like poor old Goldman Sachs (GS) and little old GE, for examples. I don't see a V or U or W...

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Last year, Buffett scored sweetheart deals with Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) and General Electric (NYSE: GE), and while the book sheds light on Buffett's business virtues and opportunistic investing, it also highlights some of Buffett's...

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...the $22 billion purchase of General Re back in 1998. It also makes Berkshire's big investments last fall in Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) and General Electric (NYSE: GE) look like peanuts. Buffett's been loading up on railroads for years now.

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