How will it end?
WHAT do the next 50 years have in store for Berkshire Hathaway, the conglomerate Warren Buffett has run with spectacular success for the past half century? It is an interesting question, Mr Buffett acknowledged in a recent note to The Economist declining to be interviewed about it; “so interesting that I recently assigned the same story to myself” and “I don’t want to step on my own lines.” But, he offers, “in 50 years, we can have lunch and compare the actual to the projected.”