Warren Buffet
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Billionaires Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are teaming up to build a nuclear reactor on the site of a retiring coal plant in Wyoming, according to the NY Post. Gates’ nuclear reactor design company TerraPower, which was founded about 15 years ago, along with PacifiCorp power company, which is owned by Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, are partners on the Natrium nuclear…
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Warren Buffet is great with numbers, and I love math, too. But being good with numbers doesn’t necessarily correlate with being a good investor. Warren doesn’t outperform other investors because he computes odds better. That’s not it at all. Warren never makes an investment where the difference between doing it and not doing it…
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Roger Lowenstein begins his new biography of Warren Buffett with a disclaimer. He reveals that he is a longtime investor in Berkshire Hathaway, the company that under Buffett’s guidance has seen its share price rise in 33 years from $7.60 to approximately $30,000. In reviewing Lowenstein’s book, it is very wise to begin with a disclaimer, too,…
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It’s reasonable to argue that the greatest banker in the United States today isn’t a banker at all—he’s an insurance guy. You might have heard of him. His name is Warren Buffett! As the chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, an insurance-focused conglomerate based in Omaha, Nebraska, Buffett oversees one of the largest portfolios of…
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Warren Buffet believes investors do not need to be brilliant to do well in the financial markets. The Oracle of Omaha made a winning 10-year bet with Protégé Partners in Dec. 2007 that the S&P 500 would outperform a basket of fund of hedge funds. But perhaps more interesting than how a simple index fund…
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