His father, Howard Buffett, came from a family of grocers but he, himself, became a stockbroker and later a U. S. Congressman.

他父亲霍华德·巴菲特成长于一个杂货商的家庭中，但后来却成了一名股票经纪人，之后又成为美国国会的议员。

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His father, Howard Buffett, came from a family of grocers but himself became a stockbroker and later a U. S. congressman.

他父亲霍华德巴菲特成长于一个杂货商的家庭中，但后来却成了一名股票经纪人，之后又成为美国国会的议员。

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Though it's impossible to quantify Scotland's global economic reach at the time, records of one Edinburgh stockbroker show that almost a quarter of its 1835 turnover was invested in U.S. railroad stocks alone.

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According to a survey by the Cerulli Associates consulting firm, at least half of U.S. households do not use a financial advisor, broadly defined as a stockbroker, a fee-only planner, a bank trust officer or an insurance agent.

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