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Warren Buffett diagnosed with early stage prostate cancer

The billionaire will begin a two-month radiation program in July. By Adam Shell, USA TODAY NEW YORK – Billionaire investor Warren Buffett told shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway on Tuesday that he has prostate cancer but "feels great" and will continue to run the conglomerate during treatments. By ROBERT J. SAMUELSON Posted 04/17/2012 04:29 PM ET [...]

Buffett's Bank of America Bet Shows Sector Improvement From 2008

By David Benoit Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES NEW YORK (Dow Jones)–Warren Buffett's bets on American business are returning a little less easy money, providing evidence the banking world may be struggling but is still better than it was during the financial By Charles Riley @CNNMoney August 25, 2011: 12:25 PM ET NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — [...]

Buffett is right: Raise taxes on the wealthy

On today's edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Francis Cianfrocca to discuss the proposed “Department of Jobs,” and Warren Buffett's plea to the government to make him pay more in taxes. Warren Buffett wrote in an Op-Ed piece this morning that it's time to stop coddling the super [...]

Decoding Buffett's tax plan

Warren Buffett wrote in an Op-Ed piece this morning that it's time to stop coddling the super wealthy and to raise their taxes. Buffett wrote that, "While the poor and middle class fight for us in Afghanistan, and while most Americans struggle to make By Anna Fifield and Robin Harding in Washington American chief executives [...]

Obama says Warren Buffett is right about taxes

AP , 08.15.11, 04:07 PM EDT NEW YORK — Shares of Transatlantic Holdings Inc. rose 2.5 percent Monday after the reinsurance company said it is in talks with a company within billionaire Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. that has offered $3.25 One of the super-rich says we should stop coddling the super-rich. Warren Buffett's New [...]

Buffett Donates $1.78 Billion To Gates Foundation, Other Charities

By AGUSTINO FONTEVECCHIA Warren Buffett spoke about Goldman Sachs on Thursday from Sun Valley while attending the Allen & Company conference. The Oracle of Omaha indicated he would be exercising his right to buy $5 billion in Goldman stock in 2013, At the Allen & Company conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, today, the Times asked [...]