{"id":294272,"date":"2010-02-08T13:47:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T18:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3087194156628161158.post-3727463521837487550"},"modified":"2010-02-08T13:54:21","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T18:54:21","slug":"cnbc-watch-warren-buffetts-conversation-with-hank-paulson-tomorrow-live-from-omaha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/294272","title":{"rendered":"CNBC: Watch Warren Buffett’s ‘Conversation’ With Hank Paulson Tomorrow, Live From Omaha"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Published: Monday, 8 Feb 2010 | 1:01 PM ET <\/span><\/div>\n
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By: Alex Crippen
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CNBC.com and CNBC-TV plan live video coverage tomorrow (Tuesday) of Warren Buffett’s planned 50 minute “conversation” with former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson. You will find this coverage here at Everything Warren Buffett<\/span><\/a> when it becomes available.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Buffett and Paulson are the main event at the Greater Omaha Chamber’s<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/b> 2010 Annual Meeting Luncheon at the Qwest Center Omaha.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Our live cameras will be there as the two men go before the 2400 people attending to “discuss current economic issues<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/b>” and Paulson’s new book, On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System<\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/b>.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

<\/span>It’s scheduled to begin at 1:35p ET.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Don’t expect any verbal battles or bombshells. In contrast to the criticism Paulson (and current Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner) has been getting lately on Capitol Hill<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/b>, Buffett has repeatedly praised Paulson’s actions at the height of the credit crisis in the late summer and fall of 2008.<\/p>\n

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For example, in his Keeping America Great<\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/b><\/em><\/a> session with Bill Gates in November, Buffett said “officials in Washington,” including Paulson, “did a terrific job of dealing with really what was an economic Pearl Harbor.”<\/p>\n

<\/span>And in his book, (as relayed by Steve Jordan at the Omaha World-Herald<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/b>), Paulson calls Buffett a “friend” and says he “trusted his wisdom and invariable sound advice.”<\/p>\n

<\/span>Paulson also says he welcomed Buffett’s $5 billion investment in Goldman Sachs and describes being woken from a deep sleep by a call from Buffett offering an idea on the TARP program.<\/p>\n

<\/span>At first, a “groggy” Paulson thought he was talking to his mother’s handyman, Warren Hansen.<\/p>\n

<\/span>But, writes Paulson, “This Warren turned out to be quite a handyman, too.”<\/p>\n

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