Warren Buffett heads list of top 2006 donors
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Investor Warren Buffett may hold the title as America's top donor, but his well-heeled competitors helped make 2006 a record year for charitable giving, the Chronicle of Philanthropy reported on Friday.
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It's almost Labor Day, the end of vacation season. But before fall sets in, I'd like to revisit one of this summer's biggest financial stories: Warren Buffett's decision to donate $38 billion of his Berkshire Hathaway stock to charity, most of it to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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There are now 313 US billionaires, the most ever and a huge jump over last year&#39;s 262, according to Forbes magazine, which yesterday released its annual ranking of the 400 richest Americans.
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Warren Buffett arrived on Gillette Co.'s doorstep when the razor company desperately needed a friend in 1989. He became all that and more, earning billions in the process over the next 15 years.
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Berkshire Hathaway, the investment group run by Warren Buffett, the legendary investor, has reported its lowest quarterly profits for more than two years after it was
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Bill Gates tops Forbes magazine's yearly list, which also includes Larry Ellison, Michael Dell, and Google's Sergey Brin and Larry Page in the top ten.
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A list of the donors who have "bundled" large sums from dozens of individuals to give to Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign includes several figures who were involved in the 1990s Democratic Party fundraising scandal that tarnished her husband's record.
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Bill Gates kept his ranking as the richest person in the United States, boosting his worth to $48-billion. But investor Warren Buffett has edged closer to the top of the rich list, Forbes magazine said on Friday.
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Bill Gates remained atop the list of richest people in the United States, but investor Warren Buffett edged closer and Google&#39;s founders are rising fast, according to Forbes magazine.
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A list of firms punished for trading with Iran or Saddam Hussein's Iraq and the executives or directors who are top campaign fund-raisers for President Bush or Democratic Sen. John Kerry:
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Billionaire investor Warren Buffett  used his business clout and folksy wisdom to raise $1 million  for Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Clinton on  Tuesday, telling big donors that Democrats are better than  Republicans at taking care of the less fortunate.
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Perspectives from Berkshire's behind-the-scenes man.
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NEW YORK - We have expanded our list to 200 names from 100 in 2003. To make the top 100 this year required personal wealth of at least $141 million, against $100 million last year.
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Warren E. Buffett wnats to set up an international nuclear fuel bank from which countries could buy reactor fuel instead of making it on their own.
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Wall Street has shifted its  allegiance in the 2006 election cycle by donating more to  Democrats than Republicans who have been the investment banks'  usual benefactors, U.S. Federal Election Commission data show.
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The ranks of donors giving money to Republican presidential candidates are a little low on the celebrity meter. Unlike the Democrats, whose ties to the entertainment community are well-known, the recently filed lists of GOP contributors has relatively few names familiar from the stage and screen.
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Edward S. Lampert has made no secret of wanting to follow in the footsteps of his hero, Warren E. Buffett. Like the Sage of Omaha, Lampert formed a partnership at age 25 and invested in old-line companies that throw off lots of cash.