Warren Buffett

By Ted Allrich First, because it's Warren Buffett. While he's made one or two bad investments (see Eastern Airlines (who?) as an example), most of what Mr. Buffett buys increases in value. He's not the second richest man in America because he's lucky. When he buys into an industry, it may be one that most inve...

By Fortune's Stanley Bing Other than that, you have to like the way Warren is thinking. It says that you don't have to be nuts or smoking something in order to put your money on the home team, which is not Wall Street -- it's America. It's a bet FOR something, not against.

By Sheldon Liber Yesterday it was announced very loudly that "my pal Warren" was going to acquire the 77.4% of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe (NYSE: BNI) railroad, that Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A) does not already own, for $100 per share, offering about a $24 premium to Mondays closing price.

By Alan Schram Berkshire Hathaway just made its largest acquisition ever, buying Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation, a railroad company, for over $35 billion. This is a large... Berkshire Hathaway just made its largest acquisition ever, buying Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation, a railr...

By Mark Fightmaster The acquisition gives us a glimpse into the mind of the Oracle of Omaha, BRK's CEO Warren Buffett. He feels that the "country's future prosperity depends on it having an efficient and well-maintained rail system." Buffett is betting that railroads are going to do well, which would stem fro...

By The Huffington Post News Team NEW YORK � Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. on Tuesday said it agreed to buy Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. in a deal valuing the... NEW YORK � Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. on Tuesday said it agreed to buy Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. in a deal valuing the railroad at...

By Lame Cherry(noreply@blogger.com) It really would assist the experts if they invested more time in stealing articles posted here as it would explain to them why nation rapist Warren Buffett just sank 34 billion more dollars (ah American investors this is part of your 34 billion which was raped from your savings by Buffett,...

By Alice Schroeder In the trial, the defendants invoked a "Buffett defense," saying that Buffett had approved the outlines of the structured transaction and was involved in setting the fee. The question, however, was not whether Buffett knew about the transaction--he did--but whether he knew it was frau...

By David Schepp The housing bubble and subsequent "Great Recession" have tarnished the stars of a good many of the world's financial wizards, such as the former heads at Lehman Bros. and Merrill Lynch. But one respected image remains -- perhaps unsurprisingly -- on top: Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO a...

By Dan Dorfman They're the ones operating on the delusional premise that the recession is history and that by mid-2010 the economic downturn, the real estate mess, rising unemployment, falling incomes and bashed banks will begin to become fleeting memories.

By Mark Fightmaster So, you think you had a rough year? Check out what happened to Warren Buffett, who is ranked the second-richest man in America despite a drop of $10 billion in his personal wealth during the past year. The culprit for Buffet's loss is the 20% decline in Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) stock d...

By Lame Cherry(noreply@blogger.com) After awhile, you would start thinking the entire world was screwed up wouldn't you in labeling you as a Nebraskan and just like Warren Buffett? So as you see, Americans have always held this buffer position in Israel and among the nations.

By Myriam Miedzian It is standard for industries to shift a majority of their contributions to whatever party is in power, so right now Democrats are getting more than Republicans. Is it surprising that it's looking more and more like we won't get a public option, that the major winner in the most recent Senat...

Warren Buffett talks about economic recovery during the Fortune Most Powerful Women conference. cnn.com

By Les Leopold As Wall Street gears up to pay itself outrageous sums again, even as we're bailing them out, it's possible that a majority of Americans would see the justice of having the super-wealthy pay their fair share. In a recent New York Times op-ed, Warren Buffet points out the dangers of the rising...

By Les Leopold In a recent New York Times op-ed, Warren Buffet points out the dangers of the rising U.S. deficit. But in doing so he refuses... In a recent New York Times op-ed, Warren Buffet points out the dangers of the rising U.S. deficit. But in doing so he refuses to point the finger at the obvious cause: the incre...

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 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.

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 ...

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 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 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...