Warren Buffett hones rock-star status

[USA Today]

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Warren Buffett hones rock-star status

By Adam Shell, USA TODAY

The world's richest man is having an E.F. Hutton moment.

Warren Buffett, dubbed the Oracle of Omaha by Wall Street, is making his voice heard these days.

The billionaire investor is out talking to cable TV anchors. To magazines. To shareholders. To Congress. To foreign investors. To a former Wall Street analyst who is writing a book about him.

He's generating newsy sound bites at press conferences. On airplanes. In impromptu TV interviews outside his home. Even in faraway places such as China, South Korea and major cities in the euro zone, where he just got back from a "European Tour."

He's even popped up in a CNBC documentary, The Billionaire Next Door: All Access, which delves into all things Buffett. Not to mention a recent guest appearance on the daytime soap opera All My Children.
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