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...of their money. Berkshire Hathaway's (NYSE: BRK-B) Warren Buffett, for example, has seen his very long-term investment in Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO) increase around seven-fold since 1988, and his investment in The Washington Post Co. (NYSE: WPO) has...

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...Street investment bank as we knew it. Buffett, chairman of Berkshire Hathaway and a director of The Washington Post Co., is either the world's richest or second-richest person, depending on the day. He darkly warned in the interview this...

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...against health care benefits to its membership. We'll see. Buffett has owned Washington Post forever, but media is a particular disaster, more the print sector than cable. But both are tied to advertising, which has nowhere to go but...

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...or has large stakes in Coca-Cola, Dairy Queen, Wrigley, Geico and several other companies, including The Washington Post Co., where he is a director and the largest non-family shareholder. Buffett began buying into Burlington Northern...

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...Queen, is the top shareholder of Coca-Cola and Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad, and pitched in $4.4 billion to the Mars-Wrigley tie-up last year. Buffett is a director of The Washington Post Co. and the largest non-family shareholder.

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...crisis, Goldman earned an explicit endorsement from Buffett, celebrated for his investing savvy. Buffett is a director of The Washington Post Co. Berkshire has slipped about 1.3 percent this year as it posted a first-quarter loss on declines...

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...services as among the safest borrowers. Fitch also noted the risk of the company's dependence on its chief executive, Warren Buffett, who is also a director of The Washington Post Co. Following GE's downgrade by S&P, only four...

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...charity founded by the world's richest couple: the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. (Mr. Buffett and Ms. Gates are directors of The Washington Post Co.) Andrew Carnegie gave away $7.2 billion, measured in today's dollars. John D....

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...in the Industrial Age behemoths. Buffett, a Washington Post Co. director, began loading up on shares of BNSF last year and is now its largest shareholder, with more than 18 percent of its outstanding stock. The industry estimates it will...

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