Mark Gongloff, Columnist

Warren Buffett Has Some Explaining to Do

The Oracle of Omaha’s latest annual letter needs a lot more detail than usual.

February 22, 2019 at 9:14 PM UTC

Mark Gongloff is a Bloomberg Opinion editor and columnist covering climate change. He previously worked for Fortune.com, the Huffington Post and the Wall Street Journal.

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Warren Buffett has coasted for a long time on a folksy demeanor, relative general decency and decades of ludicrous business success. But everybody’s got to face the music eventually, and this may be Buffett’s time.

His mammoth investment vehicle, Berkshire Hathaway Inc., is due to release his latest annual letter to shareholders tomorrow. Tara Lachapelle notes the letter has become a non-event lately, in content and length: