Warren buffett age
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Buffett’s dilemma: Which Democrat to back?
Someday soon, Warren Buffett may have to apply his legendary stock-picking skills to the candidates clamoring for his endorsement in the 2008 presidential race.
For now, the plainspoken Nebraska billionaire appears to be enjoying his role as an unaffiliated kingmaker, raising money for Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton while promising to do the same for her chief rival, Barack Obama. He’s even heaped praise on New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who recently left the Republican Party and might join the race as an independent.
“As the markets often would follow Buffett’s investments, I think that same mentality would follow his political activities, too,” said Joseph Marbach, a Seton Hall University political science professor.
An outspoken critic of economic inequality in the United States, Buffett is using his newfound political prominence as a platform to speak out on the obligation of the privileged to help the poor.
Vast wealth
The 76-year-old Buffett is one of the world’s wealthiest men, typically ranked third on Forbes Magazine’s
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Warren Buffet just turned 87. Hailed as one of the best investors of all time, he has earned the affectionate nickname, the “Oracle of Omaha”, in a nod to his foresight in business and his hometown.
Warren Buffet was born to be a businessman. Stories abound about his uncanny ways to make money since he was a little boy. Clearly, he was an unusual child. He found ways to make a nickel since very young. When he was just six, Buffet made his first stash – by selling packs of Juicy Fruit, Spearmint and Doublemint for five cents apiece.
Warren seemed to be obsessed with numbers and calculations since childhood. Back in his hometown church in Omaha, he in fact calculated the lifespans of people who composed hymns. His official biography, The Snowball: Warren Buffet and the Business of Life, is full of such stories, detailing the making of a legend from a very young age.
He began dreaming up money-making endeavours from the time he was 6, and he hoarded his earnings. He would look at a dollar but saw the $10 it would eventually become when compounded. (He held off on majo
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Howard Warren Buffett
American academic
Howard Warren Buffett (born October 14, 1983) is an American philanthropist, political consultant, political scientist, and writer. A grandson of the American businessman and investor Warren Buffett, he is an adjunct professor in public policy and international affairs at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs[1] and was previously the executive director of the Howard G. Buffett Foundation, a private philanthropic foundation that funds initiatives aimed at improving the standard of living and quality of life for the world’s most impoverished and marginalized populations.[2] Buffett previously led agriculture-based economic stabilization and redevelopment programs in Iraq and Afghanistan while at the United States Department of Defense,[3] and as a policy advisor in the Executive Office of the President of the United States under President Barack Obama.
Prior to joining the White House, Buffett served as a special assistant at the U.S. Department of Agriculture,[4] as a
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