FRANKFURT (AFP) - Warren Buffett, the world’s richest man [Net worth US $62 billion (2008)] , is backing Barak Obama for US president and thinks current US economic policy will push the dollar lower against other global currencies

Buffett told a press conference here Monday he had offered support to both Obama and Democratic rival Hillary Clinton but that since it appeared Obama would win the party’s nomination, “I will be very happy if he is elected president.

“He is my choice,” Buffett said…..[more]

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