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Give Berkshire Hathaway chairman Warren Buffett some credit for acknowledging that he has revised his views about the perils of federal budget deficits. A careful reading of Buffett's latest annual letter to shareholders indicates that the Oracle of Omaha may be revising his public positions about taxes, too,
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President Donald Trump is this week in Vietnam for a summit meeting with Kim Jong-un of North Korea. Last year, he had a similar meeting in Singapore.
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LAWRENCE, Massachusetts — U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren, announcing her campaign for president here over earlier this month, used the word "rich" or a variation on it — "richer," "richest" — at least nine times in a single 45-minute stump speech. She called President Donald Trump "
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Coming soon to a Democratic Party presidential debate: the question, "Is it morally appropriate for anyone to be a billionaire?" A version of the query was raised earlier this month by the author Ta-Nehisi Coates. He was interviewing a new Democratic congresswoman from New York, the self-described socialist
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American politics at the moment can pretty much be explained by what you make of the record sixth Super Bowl victory by New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, coach Bill Belichick, and owner Robert Kraft. One view of it is to marvel at, and celebrate, the hard work, risk-taking, and
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John Bogle, the founder of The Vanguard Group who died last month at age 89, got rich by giving his mutual fund customers a better deal. The obituaries seem to have missed that point, dwelling instead on the theory that if only Bogle had chosen to rip off his customers,
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Employees of Apple "should be humiliated and ashamed" because of the iPhone company's "clearly sleazy" decision to minimize its corporate taxes, New York Times columnist David Brooks claims. "The Apple corporation exists because of American institutions," Brooks writes, complaining that "Apple
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Donald Trump just may be our most honest president since Abraham Lincoln. Sure, the Washington Post's valiant if pedantic fact-checkers claim that "In 710 days, President Trump has made 7,645 false or misleading claims." The Washington Post's Glenn Kessler even introduced a new