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Warren Buffett – Come fly with me!

Warren Buffett jumped into a new line of work – financing private aircraft. Buffett started hawking little-money-down, low rate, quick-approval loans on a lifestyle-changing purchase. No, America’s wealthiest man isn’t selling subprime mortgages, he has introduced a financing arm to his NetJets unit aimed at helping the well-heeled keep up their luxury-jet lifestyles by loaning them cash to fly on his fleet of 800 planes, which lost a ton of money last year but posted pre-tax profits of $158 million in the first nine months of 2010. Buffett’s NetJets, which sells air travel by the hour aboard posh private jets and

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