Re:Oxfam: 85 richest people as wealthy as poorest half of th...
by derivagral on Monday January 20, 2014 @11:35AM
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How was this a huge advantage? Do you mean just class/money or something more political?
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Re:Oxfam: 85 richest people as wealthy as poorest half of th...
by cygwin98 on Monday January 20, 2014 @11:53AM
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I was talking about money. I read a few years ago that Buffet was able to raise a huge amount of fund (equivalent to about 1million in today's money) when he was very young from a few of his dad's friends. Cann't recall the source at this moment.
Re:Oxfam: 85 richest people as wealthy as poorest half of th...
by sumedh on Monday January 20, 2014 @04:09PM
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The truth is that nobody took young Buffett seriously and he had a tough time raising money but once word got around in a couple of years that the "kid" knows what he is doing that is when he started getting big money.