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"It's easier to create money than to spend it." So said Warren Buffett, long before his announcement on Sunday that he would donate the lion's share of his personal fortune to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The Foundation will then have the none-too-easy task of finding the right uses for an additional $1.5 billion of grants each year, doubling their current outflow.
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