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FILE - In this Sunday, May 3, 2015, file photo, Berkshire Hathaway Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett plays bridge outside the Borsheims jewelry store, a Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary, in Omaha, Neb. Buffett has a high-class problem: cash is piling up at Berkshire Hathaway faster than he can invest it. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)

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In this Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2014, file photo, a man and a woman leave an Hhgregg store in Mayfield Heights, Ohio. On Oct. 12, CBL & Associates, a Tennesse shopping-mall management company, announced it was shutting its shopping centers, both open-air and enclosed, on Thanksgiving. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak, File) **FILE**

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Sacramento Kings center DeMarcus Cousins, left, keeps the ball away from Maccabi Haifa forward Tony Mitchell during the first quarter of an NBA exhibition basketball game Monday, Oct. 10, 2016, in Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

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Not so fast (Illustration by Dana Summers of the Tribune Media Services)

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Law enforcement officers, left, drag a person from a protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline, near the town of St. Anthony in rural Morton County, N.D., Monday, Oct. 10, 2016. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers won't yet authorize construction of the $3.8 billion, four-state Dakota Access oil pipeline on federal land in southern North Dakota, it said Monday, along with reiterating its earlier request that the pipeline company voluntarily stop work on private land in the area. (Tom Stromme/The Bismarck Tribune via AP)

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Illustration on hurricanes The Washington Times

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A person with a hand drum paces between law enforcement officers and a line of protesters along North Dakota Highway 6, south of St. Anthony, N.D., Monday, Oct. 10, 2016. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers won't yet authorize construction of the $3.8 billion, four-state Dakota Access oil pipeline on federal land in southern North Dakota, it said Monday, along with reiterating its earlier request that the pipeline company voluntarily stop work on private land in the area. (Tom Stromme/The Bismarck Tribune via AP)

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(lcbo.com)

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Oliver Hart, the Andrew E. Furer Professor of Economics at Harvard, speaks on the phone at his home in Lexington, Mass., Monday, Oct. 10, 2016, after winning the Nobel Prize in economics. Hart and Finnish economist Bengt Holmstrom, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, share the award for their contributions to contract theory. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

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Oliver Hart, the Andrew E. Furer Professor of Economics at Harvard, poses at his home in Lexington, Mass., Monday, Oct. 10, 2016, after winning the Nobel Prize in economics. Hart and Finnish economist Bengt Holmstrom, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, share the award for their contributions to contract theory. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

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Chart to accompany Moore article of Oct 10, 2016

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In this photo taken on Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2016, a man touches the Samsung Electronics Galaxy Note 7 smartphone at its shop in Seoul, South Korea. Samsung Electronics Co. estimated its profit rose more than expected in the July-September quarter despite the unprecedented recall of its flagship smartphones. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

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In this photo taken on Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2016, a visitor looks at the smartphone cases of Samsung Electronics's Galaxy Note 7 at a shop in Seoul, South Korea. Samsung Electronics Co. estimated its profit rose more than expected in the July-September quarter despite the unprecedented recall of its flagship smartphones.(AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

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This undated still frame from video provided by the No On Proposition 61 Campaign shows a sample of their campaign materials. The ballot initiative drawing the most spending on the November ballot would not affect the average Californian, but drug companies have a major stake and are spending heavily to defeat it. Proposition 61 would prohibit state agencies from paying more for prescription drugs than the U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs does in an effort to curb rising costs for taxpayers. (No On Proposition 61 Campaign via AP)