By Steve Jordon<\/p>\n
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Now that the Decade of the Aughts is done, let’s look at the Decade of Warren Buffett.<\/p>\n
Some of the 2000s’ highlights for Omaha’s most famous, and richest, citizen:<\/p>\n
From Dec. 31, 1999, to Dec. 31, 2009, Berkshire Hathaway Inc.’s stock price gained 77 percent while the Standard & Poor’s index of 500 stocks fell 24 percent and the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 9 percent. The Dow and S&P figures don’t reflect dividends paid to shareholders, however.<\/p>\n
His long-awaited biography, which he had intended to write but delegated to a former insurance analyst, opened Buffett’s personal and business sides. Others also write books about Buffett, but Alice Schroeder’s \u201cSnowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life<\/a>\u201d will remain the prime source of inside information about him, his family and his business dealings.<\/p>\n