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A New Spring Trend for Shareholders: Corporate Accountability

Elizabeth Parisian | Posted 04.24.2012

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GE's federal tax dodging has a significant impact on Chicago's neighborhoods

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Warren Buffett, Ryan O'Neal And Other Celebrities Affected By Prostate Cancer

Posted 04.18.2012

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Warren Buffett has been diagnosed with stage 1 prostate cancer, according to a statement from Buffett and his company, Berkshire Hathaway, to sharehol...

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Reducing Income Inequality Is the Key to Economic Growth -- Time to Pass the Buffett Rule

Robert Creamer | Posted 04.10.2012

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We must mobilize Americans to reject economic inequality -- to vote for a society where we all stand together, where we have each other's backs -- and where we return the goal of reducing inequality to center stage where it belongs.

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Mitt Romney Says His Tax Rate Is Higher Than 15 Percent

HuffingtonPost.com | Jon Ward | Posted 03.27.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Mitt Romney has begun to make the case that he pays more than 15 percent in taxes. "The tax rate is really closer to 45 or 50 percen...

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Is Wall Street the Enemy of the People?

Monika Mitchell | Posted 12.17.2011

There is something new going on in this millennium, something really exciting. A shift in the way we think from an exclusive sense of "what's in it for me?" to an inclusive sense of "what kind of world are we co-creating?"

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It's Working: Majority of New Yorkers Support OWS And Millionaire's Tax

Posted 12.17.2011

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Good news for Occupy Wall Street protestors: 67 percent of New York City voters agree with protestors' demonstrations and 72 percent of New Yorkers st...

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How Much Warren Buffett Made Last Year

Posted 12.12.2011

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Warren Buffett released what he said was his adjusted gross income last year. CNN Money reports that in a letter to Republican Rep. Tim Huelskamp B...

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How Buffett's BofA Deal Could Erode Confidence In Banking Sector

The New York Times | JESSE EISINGER | Posted 11.01.2011

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Which Country's Mega-Rich Want To Pay Higher Taxes?

WSJ | Robert Frank | Posted 10.24.2011

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By Robert Frank of the Wall Street Journal Warren Buffett is playing well in France. A group of 16 of the richest people in France has signed a ...

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The Next Berkshire Hathaway?

nytimes.com | AZAM AHMED | Posted 10.16.2011

Read More: Berkshire Hathaway, Business News, Harbinger Group, Philip Falcone, Hedge Funds, Warren Buffet, Business News

In a four-page letter, Christopher P. Mittleman, the chief investment officer at a small New York money manager, likens the embattled hedge fund billi...

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Why Divorce When You Can Stay Separated?

nytimes.com | PAMELA PAUL | Posted 08.31.2011

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JOHN FROST and his wife had been unhappily married for much of their 25 years together when his company relocated him in 2000. So when he moved from V...

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Warren Buffett's Mistake: How The Saint Of Capitalism Damaged His Reputation

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 07.01.2011

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Yesterday morning, thousands of shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway, one of the world’s most well-regarded companies, flocked to a convention hall in...

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Warren Buffett: Social Networking Sites Are 'Overpriced'

The Huffington Post | Amy Lee | Posted 05.25.2011

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Looks like Warren Buffett is a bubble believer. The billionaire adds his voice to a rising chorus of doomsayers who believe the rash of high valuat...

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Buffett Replacement List Down To 4

AP | JOSH FUNK | Posted 05.25.2011

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OMAHA, Neb. — The pool of internal candidates to eventually replace Warren Buffett as Berkshire Hathaway's chief executive has expanded to four,...

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Gates, Buffett Ask India's Big Shots To Chip In On Polio Eradication

Posted 05.25.2011

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Over the next six months, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett will travel to to India to ask top business officials to ante up to end polio. Gates highlig...

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Valuing the Nonprofit Sector

Jane Wales | Posted 05.25.2011

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The impact on nonprofits of a changed tax treatment is likely to be as varied as the nonprofits themselves -- not to mention the philanthropists that support them.

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10 Reasons Why the Giving Pledge Will Reshape Philanthropy

Trevor Neilson | Posted 05.25.2011

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As someone who works closely with philanthropists every day, I can clearly say that the Giving Pledge is going to have a huge impact. Here are 10 reasons why.

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Inside Details On Warren Buffett's Potential Successor

Fortune | Carol Loomis | Posted 05.25.2011

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In the board's business sessions, Buffett says, he clarified what role Combs will be playing when he reports for work in January. The backstory here c...

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How China Feels About America: Dangerous Love

Tom Doctoroff | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Chinese are fascinated by America, and often perplexed by our society's inherent contradictions. They are amazed a nation of 300 million self-starters does not come apart at the seams.

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The Goldman Sachs Settlement, the Wall Street Journal, Warren Buffett, and the White House

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.25.2011

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The timing of the Goldman Sachs settlement has raised eyebrows coming almost simultaneously to the passage of the Financial Regulations Bill. Was the settlement, if not politically motivated, at the very least politically timed?

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Warren Buffett Interview: The Best Life Advice I've Ever Received (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 11.17.2011

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Billionaire Berkshire CEO Warren Buffett may be best known for his sage business advice, but like the rest of us, the Oracle of Omaha has not been wit...

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Warren Buffett Interview In Sun Valley: Buffett Reveals His Surprising Web Habits (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Bianca Bosker | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Oracle of Omaha may not have an iPod, iPad, or Facebook account, but, excluding email, he spends more time on the computer than Bill Gates and say...

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Baby Boomers, Fiscal Peril, and the Agenda of Pete Peterson's Summit

Brent Green | Posted 05.25.2011

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Warren Buffet has wisely observed that the proposed fiscal crisis due to entitlement spending does not take into full consideration expansion of the economy over the coming years.

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OLDEST Public Company CEOs In America

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Berkshire Hathaway, Retirement Age, Charles Dolan, Retirement, Sumner Redstone, Oldest CEOs, Rupert Murdoch, David Murdock, JW Marriott, Slidepollajax, Ageing, Investors, Warren Buffet, Business News

By 24/7 Wall Street -- The official retirement age for executives at many large U.S. corporations has been 65 for several decades -- unless the execu...

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America Needs Jobs, Big Banks Need to Pay

Richard Trumka | Posted 05.25.2011

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Wall Street got our bailout money after fueling an economic disaster that has left America's workers without jobs and communities without hope. Now we need to see some returns. Here's what needs to be done.

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