Is it a conflict of interest for Warren Buffet who can benefit directly from his own advice consult Obama?

Question

Presemuptive Presidential Candidate talking to an Active SEC trading company not retired like Vollker. I would like to have a disclaimer on this one. Warren only gets involve when he sees an upside potential, and he approaches companies like he going to buy them. Why wouldn't he do the same here?

Answer 1

Warren is also a Democrat. He has historically supported Democrat causes including political campaigns on a financial level.

High taxes don't really matter to a guy who is worth billions already.

Answer 2

What about Bush and Cheney and Ken Lay and ENRON?

Bush flew around on ENRON planes when he campaigned in 2000.

ENRON was his largest contributor.

Ken Lay met with the VP while the VP was forming energy policy. They "claimed" those meetings were only "social" or it would be ILLEGAL!

And Ken Lay was meeting with the Bushies while he was defrauding the utilities on the West Coast and manipulating energy prices. And Bush REFUSED to act and Cheney REFUSED to meet with the Senators from the West Coast that wanted to discuss the problem.  

Did you also forget about Bush's economic summit in Crawford?

How have they done for us? Supply side has the economy booming right?

Hypocites.

Answer 3

Polititions seek the advice from business people all the time. There's nothing unusual here.