Warren Buffett: 'I would have passed Keystone'

by Stephen Gandel / MARCH 2, 2015, 11:44 AM EST

In a television interview, the legendary investor and Berkshire Hathaway CEO said that President Obama’s Keystone oil pipeline veto was a mistake.

Warren Buffett thinks President Obama’s Keystone veto was a mistake.

Buffett made the comments on the oil pipeline Monday morning in a wide-ranging interview with CNBC following the release over the weekend of his annual letter to shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway BRK.A -0.67% , of which the legendary investor is chairman and CEO...


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“Canada’s been a terrific partner for us over the decades and it is wrong for us to thumb our nose at them,” said Buffett.

Buffet didn’t criticized Obama by name and Buffett, a lifelong Democrat, has mostly been in agreement with Obama in the past. Obama has championed a Buffett suggestion that America’s 1% pay higher tax rates, calling it the Buffett Rule....


Full article:
http://fortune.com/2015/03/02/warren-buffett-i-would-have-passed-keystone/