The only honorable, truly decent person in this list of white-collar criminals.

A billionaire financier whose carefully crafted public image as a folksy Midwesterner hides the razor-sharp mind and ruthlessness of an extremely talented investor.  A throwback to the old robber barrons, but in a good way; one of the few billionaires who understands and can speak intelligently on topics beyond his business.  Far more interesting and talented than the computer geeks and idiot heirs/heiresses who make up 90% of American billionaires.

Hard to argue with the results, and he seems to combine his acumen with a high degree of ethics.

Sad that he is now betting against the American economic industrial base due to unfavorable conditions the current administration has place the US in with reckless currency policy and no control of imports being dump from slave labor countries. These policies are going to make us another third world county if not reversed at some point in the near future. We cannot all work at the Great Wal-Mart of China then be expect to build homes with carpets, roofs, bricks, furniture, fixtures, tiles, ect from Berkshires companies that employ thousands of Americans at wages above 12 cents an hour. http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/subs/sublinks.html

You have to admire and respect this guy because he apparently plays the game according to the rules, a major reason why he never got caught with his pants down, and because he employs a stable, reasonable, responsible means to acquire great wealth in the stock market: he goes ultra long. The living antithesis of the day trader, he seeks value in underpriced stocks, holds them for extended periods irrespective of the issues' swings in trading price, and re-invests those dividends. The onerous tax consequences of the dividend reinvestment is counterbalanced by the maintaining of long positions. This is the way any savvy investor should go about investing, and those market churning dimbulb losers at their home computers trading in and out of positions for the sake of a couple bucks in share price could learn a valuable lesson from the way this guy goes about it.