The news about Warren Buffett giving away most of his fortune to charity his the wires over the weekend. Here is an article from Yahoo News:
Warren Buffett, the world’s second-richest person, is donating about $37 billion — more than 80 percent of his fortune — to foundations run by his friend
Bill Gates and by the Buffett family.
Everyone is connecting this story to Bill Gates’ announcement last week that he will be stepping out of his role at Microsoft to run his Gates Foundation. However, Buffett assured that there was no real connection between the two announcements.