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Buffett Calls For Colossal Recession

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Warren Buffett has decided not pull his punches about how bad things are going to get in the US.

Speaking of the economy, Reuters quotes him as saying "But the people are already feeling the effects. It will be deeper and last longer than many think."

Buffett’s name gets added to those of people like George Soros who have strong concerns about the next several quarters. The stock market is supporting their views. GM (GM), GE (GE), airlines, and many companies in the financial sector now trade at 52-week lows. The Fed has revised its forecast for GDP down. Many economists polled by Reuters see a bad year ahead.

The CEO of Dow Chemical (DOW) recently said that inflation and the credit crisis are causing significant changes in consumer behavior. Many of the underpinnings that helped several years of grow in the economy are gone.

Buffett’s views may be a little late, but the are, nonetheless, almost certainly true.

Douglas A. McIntyre

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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