Don’t Buff it up
An investing hero is not a model for how to reform America’s economy
WARREN BUFFETT has long dabbled in politics. In the mid-1970s he developed a taste for exclusive Washington dinner parties. In the 1980s he spent a weekend being Ronald Reagan’s golf partner. He helped Arnold Schwarzenegger become the governor of California in 2003 and in 2008 John McCain and Barack Obama both hinted that they would like Mr Buffett to become their Treasury secretary.
This article appeared in the Business section of the print edition under the headline “Don’t Buff it up”
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