So when he offered to bail out the U.S. bond insurance industry on Tuesday, it seemed a good bet that he was proposing a better deal for Berkshire Hathaway than for the troubled firms that might need his help.
And Senator Christopher Dodd, who faces a tough re-election bid, has come under pressure to explain why he did not try to stop such bonuses when he helped to write the bail-out legislation.
When the government helped to bail out Dexia, a Franco-Belgian bank, last year, he picked a former adviser, Pierre Mariani, to run it.
At a time of economic chaos Ford resisted strong pressures for a more activist government, most spectacularly when he decided not to bail out New York City.
McDonough sparked controversy in 1998 when he assembled 14 banks to bail out the collapsing hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management.
It should also be said that the regulated industries, for being closely tied to politicians, are the ones the taxpayers always have to bail out when things go wrong.
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When the Bush Administration wanted to bail out Wall Street, it sent up to Capitol Hill a three-page letter saying it needed seven hundred billion dollars and would figure out the details later.
Basically, the longer the time your money will be invested and the less likely you are to bail out when the market inevitably has one of its many downturns, the more you can afford to invest in stocks vs. bonds.
Recession invites a return to financial crisis at a moment when there is no guarantee of more public money to bail out the banks.
Her husband, Martin, is a New York real estate developer who blames Marvin for failing to bail him out when he declared bankruptcy in 1991.
It may even provide an example that will spur other companies to tackle their own problems without having to rely on the state to bail them out when things get too frothy.
But investors probably need to be aware of the potential that it is a bond bubble, and be prepared to bail out early when rates and yields begin rising, or if the stock market bottoms and begins a new leg up.
Pierre Lellouche, his junior Europe minister, slipped in a reference to Auschwitz when talking about the bail-out.
For me, they rang the bell in early December when the IMF cobbled together a deal to bail out South Korea.
Back in 2009, when the U.S. Treasury agreed to bail out General Motors, one thing was made clear: money provided by American taxpayers must be used at home, to protect American jobs at American factories.
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If it can get through this year as the only indigenous carmaker not to need a bail-out, it will be well placed to appeal to patriotic buyers when demand picks up.
Rather, as a method of not having to bail out the banks as and when the likely default comes.
Three weeks later, when his friends and band-mates managed to bail him out, Kaye says he was "almost disappointed" to be leaving.
It is if, or when, the permanent bail-out fund starts to prove inadequate that the question of the future oversight of national economies becomes crucial.
She lost the support of French President Nicholas Sarkozy in 2004, when he, then Finance Minister asked her to help bail out French energy transport group Alstrom in a merger.
He needs to repair his relationship with the establishment of the Republican Party, and the best way to do that is to bail out the current Republican president when he's in trouble.
The question she was answering was when the ECB would step in to buy more bonds and bail out the bondholders.
They are not the Wall Street guys with fancy lifestyles who, when they make bad deals, expect the government to bail them out.
The book has flaws: there is too much on well-trodden events from the distant past, too little on the traumatic weeks after AIG's bail-out, when Goldman came close to death.
When it collapsed recently, the British government was forced to bail it out even though it was not considered significant before its depositors started to run.
The theory of moral hazard is that when a company financially fails due to its own ineptness, a bail out is morally reprehensible because the action rewards a company for its own failures.
Ultimately when he returned to the trading desk, I begged him to bail me out as I was in big trouble.
Terry Bedford, a principal with Hamilton, Canada-based technical analysis firm Bedford Associates, is of the opinion that if the small investors who have propped up Internet stocks get spooked when they see insiders bail out of these stocks, they will follow suit, leading to sharp declines.
The model being contemplated is close to Japan's successful bank nationalisations a decade ago, when the state-backed bail-out agency replaced bank boards, but let many managers continue in their jobs under new supervision.
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One of the final blows to Portugal's chances of staying out of the bail-out zone came when it emerged in an echo of Greece's misreported finances that last year's deficit was 8.6% of GDP rather than the planned 7.3%.
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