The Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting began humbly in 1982 with a crowd of 15 in an insurance company cafeteria. It has been growing steadily just as the company’s stock price rose to become the most-expensive in the U.S., reaching $162,904 for a Class A share on Friday. Now the meeting regularly fills Omaha’s 18,300-seat arena and every nearby overflow room. Buffett likes to call it “Woodstock for Capitalists.”
More than 100 people demonstrated Friday outside the annual meeting on the lot of News Corp.’s Fox Studios in Los Angeles. British lawmaker Tom Watson asked CEO Rupert Murdoch whether he was aware that a person who had left prison was hired by News Corp. and hacked the computer of a former army intelligence officer.
