Warren Buffett

By The Huffington Post News Team When will the recession end? Everyone's got an opinion. Warren Buffett recently said the U.S. economy is recession will end later this year.">still in shambles,... When will the recession end? Everyone's got an opinion. Warren Buffett recently said the U.S. economy is recession will end late...

Steve King, You Sure Are One Very Evil Goblin! satire), DC I can't even say it because I get Jimmy Buffett and Warren Buffett mixed up, I think. He and his friend then laugh at the very funny joke! America sure does have a lot to be proud of with this whole Uighur situation, Steve! Ha ha ha! ...

So did these calls play a role in convincing Durbin to invest his money in Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway? We actually have no doubt that they did. Even if Buffett wasn't actively hawking the shares to lawmakers, many must have been impressed by ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--It's a tough economy – all the more reason to have lunch with one of the most successful investors of all time – Warren Buffett. The Annual Warren Buffett Lunch Charity Auction listed on eBay, benefits San Francisco's ...

Many investors, such as Warren Buffett, note that our economy is too large and mature to enjoy the same growth rates that we have in the past. But that's not true of smaller, emerging economies. Data from The World Bank and Yahoo! Finance. ...

 NY Goldman Sachs (GS) got Warren Buffett to invest and give them the golden 'stamp of approval.' Sure, Buffett got ridiculously good terms on his deal, so he of course had additional incentive. Heck, he even got better terms than the government could. ...

By Bruce Jackson Forbes recently ranked Berkshire Hathaway Chairman Warren Buffett as the second-richest man in the world, with an estimated net worth of $37 billion. Although his net worth has dropped by a cool $25 billion over the past 12 months, ...

Amazingly as many value investors like Walter Schloss, Seth Klarman and Warren Buffett have stated planning for risks not only limits downside but also allows the upside to take care of itself. Warren Buffett himself has stated that he wouldn't mind if ...

Warren Buffett's Inner Scorecard Of related note: in the first chapter of The Snowball, Warren Buffett is quoted as saying: "Whenever my version [of the story] is different from somebody else's, Alice, use the less flattering version." To have the cajones to encourage "the less ...

By Robert Teitelman Michael Lewis has up at the New Republic a book review of Alice Schroeder's biography of Warren Buffett, "The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business... Michael Lewis has up at the New Republic a book review of Alice Schroeder's biography of Warren Buffett, "The Snowball: Warren Buffett...

 AZ By Stephen Chilton in Concert Review Jimmy Buffet is a bizarre cultural force. His had-to-be-damn-close to sold out show at Cricket Wireless Pavilion was quite a spectacle to be seen. While it is hard not to be aware of the phenomenon that is Buffett ...

By Jeff Matthews(noreply@blogger.com) lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;"><br /><em><strong>Fed Sees Up to $599 Billion in Bank Losses<br /></strong><span style="font-size:100%;">Worst-Case Capital Shortfall of $75 Billion at 10 Banks Is L...

Warren Buffett just finished the annual Berkshire Hathaway shareholders meeting, and apparently doled out his normal dose of insights. Should people care what he has to say? There is one school of thought that says that markets are sufficiently ...

By Judith Ellis Basically, four or five years ago, virtually everybody in the country had this model in their heads, formal or otherwise, that house prices could not fall significantly," Mr. Buffett said. He later added that "it was stupidity and the fact that everyone else was doing it." He said that if Moo...

By Thomas A. Bass The gross domestic product of the United States is $15 trillion. The money supply of the United States--all the greenbacks currently in circulation--is also about $15 trillion. The gross domestic product of the entire world is $50 trillion. The total value of the world's real estate is $75...

 NY - Barack Obama, Barack Obama In his speeches, he referred to "my friend Warren Buffett" and said, "Warren Buffett is one of those people that I listen to." In the third presidential debate, Obama agreed with McCain's suggestion that "Warren would make a pretty good choice" for ...

By Ellen Sledge Warren Buffett is here. Warren Buffett is everywhere. He greets you on an airport billboard, stressing the importance of college education. There he is again, on the cover of every book in the bookstore window display. The hotel signs say "welcome Berkshire shareholders." Next to the colleg...

By Mike Hegedus Ah yes, Omaha in the Spring. While the swallows are returning to Capistrano, the Berkshire Hathaway investors, 35,000 of them, are returning to hear the 'Oracle of Omaha' wax about the economy. Warren Buffett is holding court, ice cream cone in hand.

By Alan Schram For example, Buffett estimates that in the event of a major catastrophe, Berkshire would suffer between 3% and 4% of the total, nationwide losses. Even if such catastrophe amounts to $100 billion in total damage (for reference, Hurricane Katrina leveled about $60 billion of losses), Be...

By Jeff Matthews(noreply@blogger.com) As John Lennon might have written, Warren Buffett was in the news today, oh boy. Two weeks ago came the first ratings downgrade in Berkshire’s modern era, with Fitch unceremoniously replacing Buffett’s cherished Triple-A with a mere Double-A.

Ironically, Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-A) (NYSE: BRK-B) should also do just fine without Buffett at the top. Buffett is truly extraordinary, and over the years, he's worked to ensure that Berkshire will manage just fine after he departs. ...

On Thursday, S&P announced that it had cut General Electric's debt rating from AAA to AA+, and on Friday Warren Buffett got slapped by Fitch, which cut its issuer default ratting to AA+ and senior unsecured debt to AA. The insurance and reinsurance ...

Wells Fargo shares rose as much as 24.3% after Buffett said the fourth-largest US bank will emerge "better than ever" from the nation's credit crisis. Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway held a 7.2% stake in the bank at year's end. (Shares closed up 15.8%. ...

By Diane Francis On Sunday, Buffett gave a very scary interview on U.S. television about how the economy nearly collapsed in September. He said that the world is going through an "economic Pearl Harbor" that will take years to turn around only to end in serious inflation problems. Printing money to stimulate...

By The Huffington Post News Team Warren Buffett spoke to CNBC Monday morning where he expounded on his views of the economy, municipal bonds and the Obama administration's efforts to stave... Warren Buffett spoke to CNBC Monday morning where he expounded on his views of the economy, municipal bonds and the Obama administ...

By Jeff Matthews(noreply@blogger.com) Well, Warren agrees with us! In our book, “Pilgrimage to Warren Buffett’s Omaha,” we pointed out that Berkshire Hathaway’s annual shareholder meeting is no longer mainly about Berkshire Hathaway. And Buffett, it turns out, agrees.

By Sheldon Liber Filed under: International markets, Forecasts, Rants and raves, Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A), Market matters, Johnson and Johnson (JNJ), Recession, Financial Crisis Would you be interested in seeing Buffett and Roubini appear together on a news show?

By Jim Cramer Filed under: General Electric (GE), Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A), Market matters, Johnson and Johnson (JNJ), Tiffany and Co (TIF), ConocoPhillips (COP), Goldman Sachs Group (GS), Procter and Gamble (PG), Harley-Davidson (HOG), Cramer on BloggingStocks, U.S. Bancorp (USB)

By Sheldon Liber Filed under: Forecasts, Other issues, Rants and raves, Competitive strategy, General Electric (GE), Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A), Johnson and Johnson (JNJ), Tiffany and Co (TIF), Goldman Sachs Group (GS), Procter and Gamble (PG), Harley-Davidson (HOG), Recession, Financial Crisi...

By Allan Halprin Filed under: Cisco Systems (CSCO), General Electric (GE), Toyota Motor Corp. (TM), Money and Finance Today, AutoNation Inc (AN), Bank of America (BAC), Goldman Sachs Group (GS), Procter and Gamble (PG), Harley-Davidson (HOG), Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNI)

By Jeff Matthews(noreply@blogger.com) We have written on these virtual pages, and in a chapter titled “What Would Warren Do?” in “Pilgrimage to Warren Buffett’s Omaha,” about the fact that most of the questions asked by shareholders at Berkshire Hathaway’s famous shareholder meeting—the “Woodstock for Capitalists” of wh...

 NY - But readers will find much more than another book on Warren Buffett. The real story begins in 1998. That’s when Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway bought General ... Dear Mr. Buffett: A Book Review with a Little 'Extra' Seeking Alpha all 2 news articles

By Jeff Matthews(noreply@blogger.com) Finally, Berkshire Looks Undervalued By ANDREW BARY The culprit in Berkshire Hathaway’s recent fall from grace—at least in the credit default swap market—may just be the very firm Warren Buffett himself invested in just two months ago. That firm would be Goldman Sachs.

By Jeff Matthews(noreply@blogger.com) Warren Buffett professes never to worry about a position, even if it’s down 50%. After all, who knows more about Berkshire than Warren Buffett? Which begs the question, who is buying credit default swaps in Berkshire Hathaway, and why?

By Diane Francis Wrong and here's why: The Omaha Oracle is wrong for you and me Warren Buffett's recent op-ed piece in the New York Times made a brilliant point, but was straight from the value-investor, long-term viewpoint: Buy bargains now when everyone flees and hang on for awhile. Far be it from me to con...

By matt buchanan The economy sucks. But like Warren Buffett, you should be greedy when everyone else is skurred. If you've got the extra scratch, this is probably the best holiday season ever to buy an HDTV, since retailers don't want a pile of them going obsolete in their warehouse. But what should you look fo...

By Larry Kudlow Fear and volatility continue to dominate stock markets as the economy sinks into recession and profits estimates suffer from deeper downgrades. But how bearish should investors really be? Warren Buffett writes in today's New York Times that now's the time to buy. He writes, "Be fearful w...

Fear and volatility continue to dominate stock markets as the economy sinks into recession and profits estimates suffer from deeper downgrades. But how bearish should investors really be? Warren Buffett writes in today’s New York Times that now’s the time to buy. He writes, “Be fearful w...

By James Berman When Warren Buffett speaks (which is rare outside his annual Berkshire Hathaway shareholders meeting), people should listen. Among all the TV pundits, hedge fund traders, economists, journalists and cocktail party guests, not one has as good an investment record.

By Mumia Abu-Jamal In a 2002 open letter from U.S. financier, Warren Buffett to his Berkshire Hathaway shareholders, Buffett, one of the richest people in the U.S., warned his shareholders to avoid 'derivatives'. which he described as "time bombs, both for the parties that deal in them, and the economic system....

By Dr. Judith Rich Lessons in Living: Part 2 The Wisdom of Eckhart Tolle and Warren Buffett I don't look for 7-foot bars to jump over, I look around... Lessons in Living: Part 2 I don't look for 7-foot bars to jump over, I look around for 1-foot bars I can step over. -- Warren Buffett

By David Paul Five years ago, billionaire investor and American icon Warren Buffett suggested that financial derivative products were "financial weapons of mass destruction, carrying dangers that, while... Five years ago, billionaire investor and American icon Warren Buffett suggested that fin...

By Leon Neyfakh From Janet Maslin's review of Alice Schroeder's new Warren Buffett biography The Snowball: A photo of Mr. Buffett at age 2 shows him grinning cryptically while clutching a toy tightly to his chest. It goes without saying that he was an unusual child.

By Damon Ryan, WOMT What would Petri do, if it was HIS decision? "(What) I personally would like to see them consider is trying to do something more on the order of what Warren Buffett did when he invested in Goldman Sacs," said Petri. "For the taxpayers putting money into these things, put it in on a preferred ba...

By Melanie Cheryl Casone of Fox Business Now said Clinton, "does have experience with health care," and, "the one place that she would benefit business would be the health care sector." She isn't, "going to blow-up the private insurance industry and the health industry as a whole."

By Sheldon Liber There has been a lot of speculation about what BRK might do next. Warren Buffett himself has said a large acquisition is in the cards, not surprising given Berkshire's huge cash reserves. Could it be that Buffett would make this large an acquisition?

By Zac Bissonnette A piece in Saturday's New York Times ponders the question, "Is it better to learn about Warren Buffett's investing methods and apply them to your own stock-picking or just buy shares of Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A)?" Robert Hagstrom, one of the world's foremost investing experts an...

By Zac Bissonnette Dhandho, a Gujarati word derived from Sanskrit, is literally translated as "endeavors that create wealth" and Pabrai encourages investors to invest like the Patels (Asian Indians from southern Gujarat -- 1 in 500 Americans is a Patel) did to gain ownership of more than half of the hotel...

By Sheldon Liber The question is whether investors are better off buying into a few broadly held index funds or better off holding a few dividend paying large cap stocks? I am a firm believer in keeping at least half of the money you save, invested in the stock market, placed in indexed mutual funds, or excha...

News coverage of Warren Buffett's $30 billion gift to the Gates Foundation left the impression that the record-setting donation was an open-shut feel-good story. After all, what evil could come from the world's second richest man pledging over three-quarters of his wealth to fight pre...