INVESTOR WARREN BUFFETT AT THE KING DAVID HOTEL IN JERUSALEM
Billionaire and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway Warren Buffett prepares to speak at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, September 18, 2006. Buffett paid four billion dollars for 80 percent of the Israeli Company, Iscar Metalworking in northern Israel. (UPI Photo/Debbie Hill)
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For the feather in his cap at age 79 and still going strong, the world's second richest man, Warren Buffett, bought himself a railroad.
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 (UPI) -- U.S. activist and presidential candidate Ralph Nader says his novel about a group of super-wealthy liberals saving the country is a work of utopian fantasy.
NEW YORK, Sept. 16 (UPI) -- New York bank Goldman Sachs is finding success in the middle of an economic downturn earns both praise and criticism from peers and rivals.
NEW YORK, Sept. 8 (UPI) -- The financial crisis of 2008-09 has given billionaire investor Warren Buffett a chance to define his legacy, a Warren Buffet buff declared.
President Barack Obama provided a video pep talk to U.S. students Tuesday, with the message that education is important for the individual and the country.
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