With growing wealth in China and Vietnam unaccompanied by growing wisdom, demand seems insatiable.

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With his humble Midwest beginnings, plainspoken wisdom and wit, and incredible wealth, Warren Buffett has become the most-watched investor in the world.

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Conventional wisdom long held that home ownership was a route to wealth, and the imputed rent -- in other words, the right to live in your home -- was just part of the value you got from it.

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Conventional wisdom holds that provincial Russians hate Moscow because they think it sucks up the national wealth and leaves them poor.

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