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Warren Buffett's Bet on America
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Warren Buffett reaches a broad audience with his annual letters to Berkshire Hathaway Inc. shareholders -- and, on Saturday, he reached right out to U.S. voters.
In sweeping passages, he rejected the economic pessimism dominating the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign as “dead wrong” and made a case for a bright future. A supporter of Democrat Hillary Clinton, the 85-year-old Berkshire chief executive officer didn’t name the candidates espousing a dark outlook. But his message put him at odds with most of the Republican field and Clinton’s primary challenger, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders.