The Buffett Paradox: Why the World’s Greatest Stock Picker Tells You Not to Pick Stocks

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On the recent Vanguard episode of the Acquired podcast, hosts Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal returned to one of investing’s most enduring paradoxes. The greatest active stock picker of the modern era has spent decades telling ordinary investors not to try to be him. Warren Buffett wrote in Berkshire Hathaway’s 1996 shareholder letter that “the ... The Buffett Paradox: Why the World’s Greatest Stock Picker Tells You Not to Pick Stocks

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