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2008 Shareholder Letter - Summary

Key highlights from Buffett's 2008 letter to shareholders.

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2008 Shareholder Letter - Summary

This is one of the most important shareholder letters in history. Written during the height of the 2008 financial crisis, Buffett famously titled it "The Leveraging of the American Dream" and used it to explain what went wrong, why he was buying heavily during the panic, and how to think about risk.

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