Just because it wasn't enough of a vote of confidence in Jamie "Dear Congress: oath I vouch under oath that it was nothing but a tempest in a teapot" Dimon that his pay rose 74% to $20 million in 2013 despite JPM's Net Income crashing as the bank had to provision for tens of billions in legal expenses (conveniently excluded from Non-GAAP earnings) - but that's ok because the Fed's pumping of $1 trillion in fake buying power meant the stock soared - here comes folksy Crony Capitalist #1, aka cuddly Uncle Warren seemingly desperate for close encounters of the rectal kind with the JPM CEO, telling the world just how underappreciated poor, poor (we use the term loosely) Jamie is and said that if he owned J.P. Morgan, "he would keep Chief Executive James Dimon at the helm and would pay him even more than he’s making now."

From the WSJ:

In an interview Friday, Mr. Buffett called Mr. Dimon “a bargain.” “If I owned J.P. Morgan Chase, he would be running it and he would be making more money than the directors are paying him,” said Mr. Buffett, who has publicly defended the bank executive before and owns J.P. Morgan shares. He added J.P. Morgan was a “huge plus to the American financial system” during the financial crisis and did much better than other big banks through that period. “If Jamie decides he wants to make more money, all he has to do is call me and I’d hire him at Berkshire,” the billionaire investor added.

Warren had no comment how much he would pay Barack Obama if the president worked for him more than he already does, i.e., making sure that the Keystone Pipeline is mothballed indefinitely while Buffett's various railroad interests become the New Normal trans-US pipelines.

And Buffett certainly had no comment what his compensation to Bernanke, Paulson or Congress would be for injecting a few hundred billion in the same financial companies that Berkshire had some $26 billion invested in, and would have all gone bankrupt, unless the US taxpayer had boldly, if involuntarily, stood up to defend the equity value of crony capitalist #1.