Buffett on banks, Brunei boycott and the failed German bank merger

Patrick Jenkins and guests discuss Warren Buffett's views on banks, JP Morgan's decision to boycott Brunei-owned hotels over the kingdom's anti-gay laws and why the merger talks between Germany's Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank failed.


Contributors: Patrick Jenkins, financial editor, Laura Noonan, US banking editor, Oliver Ralph, insurance correspondent, Stephen Morris, European banking correspondent and Olaf Storbeck, Frankfurt correspondent. With special guest Isabel Schnabel, economics professor at Bonn University. Producer: Fiona Symon


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