Who Has the Midas Touch?
Over the course of a lengthy and illustrious business career, Warren Buffett has offered thoughtful opinions on a wide variety of investment-related issues—executive compensation, accounting standards, high-yield bonds, derivatives, stock options, and so on.
In regard to gold and its investment merits, however, Buffett has had little to say—at least in the pages of his annual shareholder letter. We searched through 34 years' worth of Berkshire Hathaway annual reports and were hard-pressed to find any mention of the subject whatsoever.
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Lessons Learned from the Greatest Generation
Spending a little time and talking with these men, you would never suspect the tragedies they had survived and overcome.
They were just young men, yet they were true heroes during World War II, and they received the Congressional Gold Medal in recognition of their service to the United States. Many of them were members of the most decorated unit in U.S. military history.
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Enjoying the Best of Life: Retirement
If you ask Jim Aitchison if retirement is the best thing ever, you'll get a simple answer: "You bet it is." Jim and his wife Beverly have been retired for more than a dozen years and so far they've loved every minute of it, relishing the time they now have to spend with their family and pursue their hobbies, from gardening to fishing.
Before retiring in 1996, Jim spent 40 years working in the telecommunications industry, including 33 years with Roseville Telephone Company. When he retired he was a Key Telephone Systems (KTS) supervisor, where his responsibilities were evenly split between craft work and management. Beverly, who retired in 1999, worked as a librarian in the Loomis School District for 28 years.
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