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Richard Florida - Richard Florida is Senior Editor at The Atlantic and Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto. See his most recent writing at The Atlantic Cities. More

Florida is author of The Rise of the Creative Class, Who's Your City?, and The Great Reset. He is founder of the Creative Class Group.
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Investor's Poker

By Richard Florida

May 19 2009, 9:19 AM ET Comment

Felix Salmon points to Michael Lewis' review of the new Warren Buffett biography by Alice Schroeder.

"Lewis is no fan of Buffett's, and dwells in his review on many of the investor's weaknesses: his juvenile shoplifting, his dysfunctional family life, his "diet of an eight-year-old". He even explains why he thinks that "there has never been a better time to bet against Warren Buffett" -- not that Lewis himself is about to do so. Lewis says that Buffett is unhappy with Schroeder's book; he'll be much less happy with this article ..."




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