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...process, Buffett has rebalanced Berkshire in startling fashion. The company's vaunted stock portfolio accounts for just 33% of Berkshire's total assets. As recently as 1995, the stocks accounted for a whopping 76% of assets. "To keep thinking of Berkshire as a big stock fund is absurd," asserts Alice Schroeder, an insurance analyst at PaineWebber. She began covering the company this year, underscoring Berkshire's insurance bent...
...Security, and what to do with all that extra cash. On the table from the White House: a detailed version of his plan to use the $760 billion Social Security surplus to pay down the national debt, then use the money from reduced interest payments to restock the retirement fund. And to get Republians to play ball, Clinton's dropping his push to have the government invest 15 percent of the fund in the stock market. That's not much of a concession; Alan Greenspan's gentle but firm rejection of the Clinton plan this spring drew...
...trillion debt on the other, and while the White House plan takes care of one part of the equation, it sidesteps making the unpopular choices - like means-testing - that would truly make Social Security a viable program. "We will not let [the President] raid the Social Security trust fund," Republican J. C. Watts said Saturday, but both sides seem content to do just the opposite: raid the rest of the Treasury to prop up Social Security. Unfortunately, both are just accounting tricks. To paraphrase LBJ, "Son, it's all our money." Which is probably why it's difficult to spend...
...took a semester off and worked for a hedge fund so that is obviously an option and a consideration," he says. "I've also thought a lot about continuing work in psychology and working towards becoming a child psychologist...
...dead for the year, hadn't expected to win this round. But the vote set the stage for Senator McCain to make the issue a centerpiece of his Republican presidential primary campaign, and for the Democrats to take it into next year's election. On his way into a fund-raiser for Democratic congressional candidates Tuesday night, President Clinton lashed out at the Senate vote as a "victory for the politics of cynicism." But with contributions to the parties for the 2000 election expected to reach $550 million - double the figure for the last election - the smart money...