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How the richest woman in the world helped bail out New York City during the panic of 1907

March 17, 2024

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Hetty Green is remembered as the “world’s greatest miser” and the “Witch of Wall Street,” but these days, Green would…

Warren Buffett joked he’d be ‘eating Thanksgiving dinner at McDonald’s’ if the US government didn’t bail out the banks in 2008

November 23, 2023

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Warren Buffett.REUTERS/Rick Wilking Warren Buffett once joked he would have faced a fast-food Thanksgiving without the 2008 bailouts. “If the…