Warren Buffett

What it takes to grow Canada’s national nest egg

As head of the massive Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Mark Wiseman is having to take bigger bets and bigger risks to ensure the pension fund keeps growing

Buffett offers $1 billion for March Madness prediction

‘Fire up the flux capacitor!’ The odds of winning are 9.2 quintillion to 1.

Heinz: spilling blood and ketchup

Barbara Amiel on the losses of Leamington Ont.

Tab for lunch: $1,000,100

OMAHA, Neb. – The annual charity auction of a private lunch with billionaire investor Warren Buffett went for just more than $1 million Friday night — a bargain price compared to past years for an opportunity to sit down with one of the world’s most successful philanthropists.

Lessons from billionaires on the right way to give away money

Bill Gates and Warren Buffett’s Giving Pledge goes global

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Warren Buffet has prostate cancer

Warren Buffett, the billionaire CEO of Berkshire Hathaway and an outspoken advocate of raising taxes on America’s wealthy, revealed in a letter to shareholders on Tuesday that he has been diagnosed with early-stage prostate cancer. Here’s what he wrote:

The Warren Buffett of B.C.

Jim Pattison, the Warren Buffett of B.C.

The octogenarian billionaire is still growing his Vancouver-based empire. His latest move takes him back to the business that started it all: selling cars.

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Warren Buffett reveals tax bill

Billionaire’s federal tax rate works out to 17.4 per cent

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The prosperity gap

Alex Himelfarb considers the ramifications of inequality.

Good news, Bad news: August 11-18, 2011

Good news, bad news: August 11-18, 2011

Canada’s navy and air force are Royal once more, Syrian forces launch a brutal naval assault on its own people