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The next Buffett, Elvis, or Jordan

Posted May 8th 2008 3:39PM by Sheldon Liber (RSS feed)
Filed under: Other Issues, Rants and Raves, Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A), Business of Sports, Media World, Headline News

From left: Warren Buffett, Michael Jordan, Elvis Presley, Kobe BryantThis weeks Barron's (subscription required) talks about The Next Warren Buffett. Of course nobody believes that's going to happen. The headline is cast to grab attention and sell papers, just like mine, but it's not happening: no way, no how!

Barron's discusses in it's story the strong possibilty that David Sokol, 51, the curent chairman of MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company is the most likely to succeed Buffett. MidAmerican has $39 billion in assets and is a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A). The headline should really have read "succeed" not be the "next".

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