Billionaire financier and Berkshire Hathaway Chief Executive Warren Buffett eats ice cream as he walks during the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders meeting in Omaha, Nebraska in this May 2, 2009.


"Fears regarding the long-term prosperity of the nation's many sound companies make no sense," Buffett wrote at the time.
(Reporting by Nick Zieminski; Additional reporting by Angela Moon, Christopher Kaufman, David Gaffen, Paritosh Bansal, Aaron Pressman, Ryan Vlastelica, Helen Chernikoff and Jonathan Stempel; editing by John Wallace)