That celebrated icon of American Investing…

Warren Buffet, philanthropist and purported icon of a more humane capitalism. Celebrated by the right and center as a general example of the payoff of decades of hard work careful investment, and noddingly approved by the center-left for his criticism of cronyism-capitalism and a progressive stance on taxing the rich. (Damn, were they easy to buy off. Pop the bubbly, Bill!)

However, those billions are not that hard to shovel in, when at least some of it is based on the usual old methods of squeezing the hard-off:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-04-06/warren-buffett-slumlord-%E2%80%93-predatory-loans-kickbacks-preying-poor