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| Preface | |
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| The Jones Nobody Keeps Up With-April 1966 | |
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| From "Hard Times Come to the Hedge Funds"-January 1970 An excerpt from an article | |
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| How Inflation Swindles the Equity Investor-May 1977 | |
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| A Small College Scores Big in the Investment Game-December 18, 1978 | |
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| Berkshire's Shareholder Contributions | |
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| Shareholders Get to Vote on Charity-November 30, 1981 | |
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| Berkshire Gives Up on Giving-August 11, 2003 | |
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| Letters from Chairman Buffett-August 22, 1983 | |
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| From "Can You Beat the Stock Market?"-December 26, 1983 An excerpt and a sidebar from an article | |
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| Buffett and Capital Cities/ABC | |
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| Excerpts from articles | |
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| From "Beating the Market by Buying Back Stock"-April 29, 1985 An excerpt from an article | |
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| Guess Who's Bought Whoops Bonds-April 29, 1985 | |
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| From "Now Hear This"-April 28, 1986 | |
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| From "Should You Leave It All to the Children?"-September 29, 1986 Excerpts from an article | |
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| Dial B-U-F-F-E-T-T for Merger-December 22, 1986 From Newstrends Section | |
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| Early Fears about Index Futures-December 7, 1987 A warning letter sent by Warren Buffett to Congressman | |
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| The Inside Story of Warren Buffett-April 11, 1988 | |
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| Buffett and Salomon | |
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| The Wisdom of Salomon?-April 11, 1988 | |
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| Warren Buffett's Wild Ride at Salomon-October 27, 1997 | |
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| From "Now Hear This"-January 10, 1994 Buffett's wry comment 2� years after the Salomon crisis broke | |
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| Nebraska Special-September 26, 1988 | |
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| A Warm Tip from Warren Buffett: It's Time to Buy Freddie Macs -December 19, 1988 | |
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| What Happened at the Bridge Table | |
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| A Very Full Deck-June 5, 1989 | |
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| Raising' Cayne-January 15, 1990 | |
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| From "How to Live with a Billion"-September 11, 1989 Excerpts from an article | |
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| From "Now Hear This"-October 23, 1989 | |
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| New Warren Buffetts? And the Old One | |
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| From "Are These the New Warren Buffetts?"-October 30, 1989 An excerpt from an article | |
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| And Now a Look at the Old One-October 30, 1989 | |
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| How I Goofed-April 9, 1990 An excerpt from Buffett's letter to shareholders in the 1989 Berkshire Hathaway annual report | |
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| From "The Children of the Rich and Famous"-September 10, 1990 Excerpts from an article | |
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| The Midas Touch at a Discount-November 5, 1990 | |
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| Buffett Buys Junk-April 22, 1991 | |
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| From "Now Hear This"-April 5, 1993 | |
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| Buffett and Coca-Cola | |
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| Excerpts from articles | |
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| How Buffett Views Risk-April 4, 1994 An excerpt from Buffett's letter to shareholders in the 1993 Berkshire Hathaway annual report | |
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| Buffett Hits $200 Million Downdraft-November 17, 1994 | |
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| Buffett and Gates | |
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| The Billionaire Buddies-January 16, 1995 | |
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| Gates on Buffett-February 5, 1996 | |
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| From "Untangling the Derivatives Mess"-March 20, 1995 An excerpt from an article | |
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| Two Items from "Now Hear This"-April 3, 1995 and May 29, 1995 | |
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| From "Why Warren Buffett's Betting Big on American Express"-October 30, 1995 Excerpts and a sidebar from an article | |
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| Gift That Gives-A Bit O'Buffett-March 18, 1996 | |
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| The Bill and Warren Show-July 20, 1998 | |
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| A House Built on Sand-October 26, 1998 | |
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| Are Jimmy and Warren Buffett Related?-June 21, 1999 | |
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| Put Bite into Audit Committees-August 2, 1999 | |
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| Mr. Buffett on the Stock Market-November 22, 1999 A Buffett speech that Carol Loomis converted into an article | |
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| Warren Buffett: Revivalist-May 19, 2000 | |
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| Warren Buffett Invests in the First Lady-October 20, 2000 | |
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| Admired-Again and Again | |
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| The Value Machine-February 19, 2001 | |
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| A Letter from Fortune's Letters Column-March 26, 2001 | |
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| Warren Buffett on the Stock Market-December 10, 2001 A Buffett speech that Carol Loomis converted into an article | |
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| The Mash Note Everybody Wants-September 16, 2002 | |
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| The Oracle of Everything-November 11, 2002 | |
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| A Letter from Fortune's Letters Column-February 17, 2003 | |
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| Avoiding a "Mega-Catastrophe"-March 17, 2003 An excerpt from Buffett's letter to shareholders in the 2002 Berkshire Hathaway annual report | |
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| Where We're Putting Our Money Now-March 17, 2003 A second excerpt from Buffett's letter to shareholders in the 2002 annual report | |
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| The Sage Goes to Asia-May 26, 2003 | |
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| The Power Issue | |
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| From "The 25 Most Powerful People in Business"-August 11, 2003 Excerpts from an article | |
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| The Most Powerful Businessperson: Warren Buffett-August 11, 2003 | |
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| America's Growing Trade Deficit Is Selling the Nation Out from Under Us. Here's a Way to Fix the Problem-And We Need to Do It Now. -November 10, 2003 | |
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| Why Foreigners Can't Ditch Their Dollars-November 10, 2003 | |
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| The Market According to Buffett-May 17, 2004 | |
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| The Best Advice I Ever Got-March 11, 2005 A Warren Buffett recollection | |
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| The $91 Billion Conversation-October 31, 2005 | |
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| Cut Your Gains!-March 20, 2006 An excerpt from Buffett's letter to shareholders in the 2005 Berkshire Hathaway annual report | |
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| Buffett's Alter Ego-May 29, 2006 | |
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| Buffett Backs GM-And Buys a Caddy-May 29, 2006 | |
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| The Philanthropist Emerges | |
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| Warren Buffett Gives It Away-July 10, 2006 | |
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| How Buffett's Giveaway Will Work-July 10, 2006 | |
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| Would You Like That $11 Billion in Twenties?-July 24, 2006 | |
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| Buffett to Gates: Spend It!-March 19, 2007 | |
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| Marking to Myth-September 3, 2007 | |
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| The Oracle's Credit Crisis-March 31, 2008 | |
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| What Warren Thinks...-April 28, 2008 | |
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| Buffett's Big Bet-June 23, 2008 | |
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| From "What Obama Means for Business"-July 2, 2008 An excerpt from an article | |
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| Buffett's Market Metric Says Buy-February 16, 2009 | |
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| From "Riders on the Storm"-April 20, 2009 An excerpt from an article | |
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| Buffett Takes Charge-April 27, 2009 | |
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| From "Who the Admired Admire"-March 22, 2010 An excerpt from an article | |
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| Buffett's Mr. Fix-It-August 16, 2010 | |
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| The Giving Pledge | |
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| The $600 Billion Challenge-July 5, 2010 | |
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| My Philanthropic Pledge-July 5, 2010 | |
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| A New Buffett Takes Beijing-October 17, 2011 | |
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| A Nation Grapples with Charity-October 17, 2011 | |
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| Why Stocks Beat Gold and Bonds-February 27, 2012 An excerpt from Buffett's letter to shareholders in the 2011 Berkshire Hathaway annual report | |
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| Final Note from the Editor | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Index | |