Buffett & Paulson Part III- 2.9.10
Airtime: Tues. Feb. 9 2010 | 1:49 PM ET
Warren Buffett and former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson discuss former President Bush and his reaction to the financial crisis.

Airtime: Tues. Feb. 9 2010 | 1:49 PM ET
Warren Buffett and former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson discuss former President Bush and his reaction to the financial crisis.

Sovereign wealth funds have nearly $4 trillion of hidden assets ready to be spent, with Tom Buerkle, Institutional Investor International Editor.

The G20 is more political than it is economic and may not be the right forum for deciding economic issues such as banking levies, Moorad Choudhry from London Metropolitan University said. However, he said no firm policy announcement will be made by the G20 and the upcoming meeting is just a stepping stone on the way to a policy.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, managing director of World Bank, forecasts developing countries will grow 6% in 2010, twice the rate of developed countries. She speaks to CNBC’s Chloe Cho about the imbalances in global growth.

Insight on the fight within the Federal Reserve, with Jon Hilsenrath, WSJ.

G20 finance ministers have thrown out the idea for group tax on the banking sector to pay for future crises, with emphasis instead on new capital requirement rules to keep that sector healthy. South Korea’s finance minister, Yoon Jeung-hyun, tells CNBC’s Chloe Cho what progress was made on “Too Big to Fail.”

Retailers may be on the shopping list for private equity firms, with Brian Sozzi, Wall Street Strategies research analyst.