Letter From America
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Lennon and McCarthy, Simon and Garfunkel, Laurel and Hardy, Kirk and Spock, Beavis and Butthead.
Buffett and Munger.
For decades, a tongue in cheek opening movie, featuring Berkshire Hathaway’s chief executive and chairman Warren Buffett and his vice-chairman Charlie Munger, set the tone for the tens of thousands of Berkshire Hathaway stockholders who made the annual pilgrimage to Omaha iconic business gathering.
The lifelong friends and business partners took their roles as co-captains of America’s ...