Warren Buffett’s top advice for a successful life

Warren Buffett will no longer write the letters that accompany his firm, Berkshire Hathaway’s annual reports, nor will he field questions at the company’s annual shareholder meeting, he wrote in a letter published on Monday. “As the British would say, I’m ‘going quiet,’” he wrote. “Sort of.” Even after Greg Abel takes the reins as…

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Government shutdown: Flight delays, cancellations worsen

Flight timings and cancellations are displayed on the departures board, a month into the ongoing U.S. government shutdown, at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia, U.S., November 9, 2025. Annabelle Gordon | Reuters Flight cancellations were again piling up on Monday as air traffic controller shortages, worsened by the longest-ever U.S. government shutdown,…

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Stop the nuclear MADness 

For better or worse, strategic nuclear weapons are back in the dock. Given that the Cold War ended 35 years ago, most Americans have little understanding of or interest in these weapons that could literally destroy much if not our entire society. The wonderful Stanley Kubrick film “Dr. Strangelove“satirised the notion of mutually assured destruction…

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