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The U.S. deficit topped $1.8 trillion in 2024, but a bold idea from Warren Buffett is making the rounds again, and this time, ...

In a rare show of bipartisan concern from two of America’s most influential business figures, Warren Buffett and Elon Musk ...

Warren Buffett said on Saturday that cutting government ... "We're operating at a fiscal deficit now that is unsustainable over a very long period of time," he continued. "It has the aspect ...

Warren Buffett has long been a proponent of free market principles. Nevertheless, he agrees with the administration that the trade deficit is a growing problem. Buffett's solution: Not a tariff ...

What Buffett did say was Congress isn’t doing its job to reduce the fiscal deficit. “We are doing something that is unsustainable,” he said.

are rooted in his dislike of the U.S. trade deficit. What Happened: In the 2003 article, Buffett used the fictional nations of “Thriftville” and “Squanderville,” to illustrate how trade ...