Warren Buffett’s Meltdown Heroes

September 16, 2009

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke. Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner. Henry Paulson Jr., the former Treasury secretary.

These are the people Warren Buffett, the world’s most famous investor, identified in a CNBC interview as “heroes” emerging from the crisis that gripped the financial system a year ago.

It’s easy to second-guess the decisions that were made last September, as Lehman Brothers failed and Merrill Lynch was sold to Bank of America with a hand from the government, Mr. Buffett told CNBC’s Becky Quick. But with a year’s hindsight, the nation appears to have made it through the storm, he said: Click here

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