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Their friends and the staff at the Gates Foundation go to great lengths to emphasize that Melinda and Bill are equals. "She is not a junior partner in any way, shape or form. Bill likes that," says Warren Buffett, a close friend (and the second richest man in the world, for those who are counting). Says Sylvia Mathews, the foundation's chief operating officer: "We joke and say Bill and Melinda have 21/2 degrees: she has two; he has a half." (Melinda, 41, has a bachelor's degree in computer science and economics and a master's in business from...
...story about the perils of inherited wealth, and it confirmed what he had noticed at his élite private high school in Seattle. "The ones who were the wealthiest weren't the most motivated," he says. He has had long talks on the subject with other rich people, like Buffett and Katharine Graham (who inherited the Washington Post). "Warren has often said that you want to give your kids enough so that they don't have to worry, but not so much that they don't feel the need to work and contribute," says Bill. "It's not clear that...
...Graham brought a little Margaritaville to Cambridge last month. Jimmy Buffett, a long-time friend of the former senator, came to Graham’s IOP study group to speak about celebrities in politics. In the past, Graham and Buffett have dressed as each other for fundraising events. They are also tied in more institutional ways. In 1981, then-Florida Governor Graham appointed Buffett to be director of a statewide “Save the Manatees” program. Buffett returned the favor by featuring the governor in his music video “Who’s the Blonde...
...still make money in energy if you're careful, and you should be exposed to this sector for the long term anyway. Warren Buffett said earlier this year that "the energy field is the single most likely area" where he "can find places to put significant capital" to work. He said he expects his Berkshire Hathaway to be making power-related acquisitions for 20 years...
...Buffett is in no rush, though, and you shouldn't be either. Wait for energy stocks to come down another 10%. What looks best? Pennington favors refiners like Valero and Marathon, which he believes will be running at full capacity for the next five years. He also likes natural-gas firms such as Quicksilver and Nabors because he expects natural-gas prices to trend higher even as oil falls. Natural gas is more difficult to transport. It will take years to build enough transportation capacity to meet demand without higher prices in the U.S., where gas fields are losing steam...