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A video by baslcjsm - Berkshire Hathaway had its annual 2009 shareholders meeting May 2, featuring the dynamic duo of Warren Buffett and Charlie ... revver.com

April 11: Legendary investor Warren Buffett was interviewed today by regulators about the role a Berkshire Hathaway unit played in certain ... video.aol.com

By rss@youtube.com (Blutobilly) Had pizza with Gene, David and Dennis. Took Nick to the hospital--he has strep throat. Warren Buffet announces a loss of 11 billion dollars in Berkshire Hathaway. Things are going to take a long time for President Barack Star to clean up the mess that Bush created!

Investors are eagerly awaiting Berkshire Hathaway's annual report due on March 1 for clues on what the Oracle of Omaha has been betting on. Thomas ... video.msn.com

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By rss@youtube.com (AIPACPC2008) American investor Warren Buffett, who purchased an Israeli firm in 2006, discusses Israel's achievements in the last 60 years. On his first visit to Israel, Buffett said that "Berkshire Hathaway and Israel will be here forever, as Israel and the US will be here forever."

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 The Huffington Post News Team Legendary investor Warren Buffett indulged CNN readers by answering some of their questions, posed to the Berkshire Hathaway chief by reporter Poppy Harlow. Among the... Legendary investor Warren Buffett indulged CNN readers by answering some of their questions, posed to the Berkshire...

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 The Huffington Post News Team Buffett, the billionaire investor who runs Berkshire Hathaway (BRKA, Fortune 500), said Tuesday at Fortune's Most Powerful Women Summit in San Diego that Lewis --... Buffett, the billionaire investor who runs Berkshire Hathaway (BRKA, Fortune 500), said Tuesday at Fortune's Most Powe...

By The Huffington Post News Team Were it not for government bailouts, for which Buffett lobbied hard, many of his company's stock holdings would have been wiped out. Berkshire Hathaway, in... Were it not for government bailouts, for which Buffett lobbied hard, many of his company's stock holdings would have been wiped out.

By The Huffington Post News Team In an interview this week with Good Morning America Warren Buffett, the legendary investor and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, said that Americans had been on... In an interview this week with Good Morning America Warren Buffett, the legendary investor and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, said that...

By The Huffington Post News Team Lunch with Warren Buffett is something we have always had on our 'dream list,'" Wolfe said. But Buffett is also known for his plan to gradually give most of his $36 billion fortune to five foundations over time. The biggest chunk of Buffett's Berkshire stock will go to the Bill & Melinda G...

By Jeff Matthews(noreply@blogger.com) Warren Buffett: —Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Meeting, May 2, 2009 So Andrew Ross Sorkin asked, and Warren Buffett responded to, one of the better questions asked at this year’s Berkshire Hathaway shareholder meeting. The reason? “News of Buffett Sale.”

 TX Berkshire Hathaway holds 200 million shares of KO tocks since before year 2000, when the stock price was higher than it is today. Warren Buffett has been criticized for not selling some stocks even when he knew the stock price is overvalued; ...

2 Democrat, Dick Durbin, sold more than $115000 worth of stocks and mutual-fund shares as US stock markets plummeted last September, using much of the money to invest in Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. The Illinois senator's 2008 financial ...

General Re is part of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., which is led by billionaire investor Warren Buffett of Omaha, Neb. The executives who were sent to prison had claimed that Buffet was involved in the fraud. But Buffett denied the allegations and was never ...

 UK Last month shareholders flocked, as usual, to the annual meeting of Berkshire Hathaway, an event that has become known as “Woodstock for Capitalists”. This year, Warren Buffett, the firm's boss, invited some leading journalists to pose questions to the ...

 Philippines The financial executive providing the most value for the money was Warren Buffett, CEO and chairman of Omaha, Nebraska- based Berkshire Hathaway Inc., 58 percent of whose assets are in insurance. Buffett paid himself an average of $175000 a year in ...

 UK The concept of an economic moat can be traced back to legendary investor Warren Buffett, whose annual Berkshire shareholder letters over the years contain many references to him looking to invest in businesses with "economic castles protected by ...

 Philippines Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway received the lowest pay per assets, while his stock's total return was the 10th best, making him the most underpaid CEO on the list. Iyan Adewuya and Thomas Jastrzab of the Bloomberg Financial Data department helped ...

 NY In what has become an observation for the ages, Berkshire Hathaway's (BRK.A) Warren Buffett referred to derivatives as "financial weapons of mass destruction." More recently, George Soros argued that one type of derivative, credit default swaps, ...

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 ...

Bloomberg reported this week that Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway doubled its municipal bond holdings in the nine months ending March 31. The moves came amid huge swings in the value of "munis" as investors feared a wave of defaults from state and local ...

 NY Russell is a subsidiary of Fruit of the Loom, which is owned by Berkshire Hathaway, headed by billionaire Warren Buffett. The NBA's deal with Russell is the apparel firm's biggest contract. Indeed, it is the biggest equipment deal in professional ...

 NY Considering that Bill Gates is good friends with Warren Buffett and serves on the board of Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A), you would think that the Microsoft board would have a pro-shareholder bent to it. But at the end of the day even Bill Gates will not ...

2 Democrat, Dick Durbin, sold more than $115000 worth of stocks and mutual-fund shares as US stock markets plummeted last September, using much of the money to invest in Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. The Illinois senator's 2008 financial ...

2 Democrat, Richard Durbin of Illinois, put his financial faith in Warren Buffett, buying $98046 worth of stock in Omaha, Nebraska-based Berkshire Hathaway Inc. even as he sold more than $116000 of other holdings. Senator George Voinovich, an Ohio ...

 NY Here, highlights of the week's activity recorded by the Forbes.com Layoff Tracker, which counts the layoffs at all the nation's 500 largest corporations. Warren Buffett handed out pink slips this week. Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway ( BRK - news - people ...

By Rich Greifner It doesn't happen often, but it does happen. Once in a blue moon, even the great Warren Buffett makes a mistake. In his latest annual letter to his Berkshire Hathaway shareholders, Buffett lamented "some dumb things" he did in 2008. ...

 NEW YORK Warren Buffett, through holding company Berkshire Hathaway (nyse: BRK - news - people ), controls more than 50 companies that had a combined $118 billion in sales in 2008. He ranks fifth. Throughout the credit crisis, Buffett injected much-needed ...

That firm's alliance with Kiewit Constructors -- yes, Buffett fans, the company that cohabitates with Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-A) (NYSE: BRK-B) at 3555 Farnam -- signals to me that perhaps this is more than a pipe dream. The entrance of B&W, ...

During the height of uncertainty in the financial crisis last fall, Goldman also made headlines by securing a $5 billion investment in preferred stock from famous investor Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A), offering Buffett ...

Washington Post The newspaper business just isn't what it used to be, even Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway concedes that, and he loves his newspapers (including the ... New York Times seeks possible sale of Boston GlobeNECN all 1,891 news articles »

BBC News The newspaper business just isn't what it used to be, even Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway concedes that, and he loves his newspapers (including the NYT). But large legacy costs, diminishing audiences, and a plethora of online competition ...

 UK less than one per cent - and the average investor's chances of identifying this one per cent is even less than one per cent, unless he thinks he has spotted it in the case of Berkshire Hathaway - the investment vehicle run by Warren Buffett". ...

Warren Buffett's latest annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders contained a warning regarding potential risks to municipal bond insurers which was the subject of an article on this website in March. In a nutshell, Mr. Buffett warns that the ...

By Erik Holm June 9 (Bloomberg) -- Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. agreed to guarantee insurance policies sold by XL Capital Ltd. to clients who want increased assurance their claims will be paid. Berkshire's National Indemnity unit will get ...

including last year's 21 percent loss, seeks shares trading at discounts to measures such as assets and cash flow and follows the principles of value investing espoused by billionaire Warren Buffett, chief executive officer of Berkshire Hathaway ...

The market for cat bonds was brought to a standstill last year after the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. Billionaire Warren Buffett, chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., has scaled back coverage of hurricanes at insurance units, ...

In short, there has never been a better time to bet against Warren Buffett..." Lewis isn't the first guy to come to this conclusion. If I remember correctly Doug Kass of thestreet.com actually shorted Berkshire last fall. Kass has been hot lately, ...

 Mason County That dollar amount does not include new money from Bill or Melinda Gates or their friend Warren Buffett, who gave the foundation's trust about $1.8 billion worth of Berkshire Hathaway stock last year. The foundation, which has an endowment totaling ...

 FL For Russell, a subsidiary of the Berkshire Hathaway conglomerate led by billionaire Warren Buffett, millions of dollars are at stake. In 2006, Russell said its licenses with about 380 universities were assets worth nearly $16.5 million. ...

By Ravi Nagarajan In 1989, Warren Buffett spent $6.7 million to purchase a corporate jet for Berkshire Hathaway that he named The Indefensible, perhaps being somewhat embarrassed by an expense that nearly any company the size of Berkshire had long ...

It is involved in the same type of business as Berkshire and it is run by management that is just as top-notch (although the wits of Buffett have yet to be matched by anyone). This company also holds a similar philosophy: value orientation with a ...

The legendary Warren Buffett has always said that his favorite holding period is "forever," but anyone who watches the great man and his Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A) (BRK.B) knows that his favorite holding period is not his only holding period. ...

Business Wire (press release), CA IDQ is part of the Berkshire Hathaway family, a company owned by Warren Buffett, the legendary investor and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. ViVOtech (www.vivotech.com) is the market leader in Near Field Communication (NFC) mobile payments, promotions and ...

At the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting, Warren Buffett made a number of bearish statements about the newspaper industry and even went as far as to say that investors should steer clear of the sector and that from an economic perspective, Berkshire ...

The foundation has given away nearly $20 billion the past decade, mostly in global health and development and US education. It has been ramping up its giving since Warren Buffett, head of Omaha-based Berkshire Hathaway, announced in June 2006 that he ...

 MD I am a big fan of Warren Buffett. However, I believe it is more advantageous to follow Buffett's stock picks than own Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A) for the following reasons: Paul Krugman, the recipient of the 2008 Nobel Price in Economics, in his new, ...

PacifiCorp is owned by a division of Berkshire Hathaway, the investment company of billionaire Warren Buffett. Removing the dams is seen as key to resolving the area's long-standing trouble balancing the water needs of farms and those who rely on ...

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett, chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. in Omaha, Nebraska, suggested that faster inflation was all but inevitable. “A country that continuously expands its debt as a percentage of GDP and raises much of the money ...

By Jeff Matthews(noreply@blogger.com) The irony was supreme, given that Sears happens to be the Berkshire-like investment vehicle for Sears Chairman and hedge fund ace Eddie Lampert, …without, of course, the good businesses, clean balance sheet, and 44 year track record of Berkshire and its Chairman and former hedge fund a...

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Last year, the book value of Berkshire Hathaway dropped 9.6%, its worst showing ever, and only the second decline in its history. The company also lost its AAA rating. As a consequence, the board of directors made Warren Buffett do some time as a ... What Buffett Won't Be Buying Next Motley Fool

 UK Mr. Loeys' views were strongly backed up recently by Warren Buffett, the renowned investor and second-richest man in the world, according to the latest Forbes magazine data. Speaking at the annual shareholders' meeting of his Berkshire Hathaway ...

Mr Buffett, referring to the annual Berkshire get-together in Omaha, Nebraska, said: “We had a record number of netjets planes come out here. But at the Super Bowl, we were down. At the Masters tournament we were down. Overall, even though we've got ...

 UK Warren Buffett, who is ranked as the second-richest man in the world by Forbes with a fortune of $37 billion, recently saw the book value of his Berkshire Hathaway investment vehicle fall by 9.6 percent. However, his comments at its annual ...

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 ...

 UK - Adrian Ash The list is said to include Wells Fargo – up 23% on Monday after "Sage of Omaha" Warren Buffett called the bank "fabulous" at the annual Berkshire Hathaway shareholders meeting. "The challenge for us on the Federal Open Market Committee will be to ...

 UK Berkshire Hathaway Chairman Warren Buffett criticised the US government's stress tests of the nation's largest banks, arguing that the health of large lenders can't be judged by calculating ratios and adjusting loss expectations on broad asset classes ...

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 Lilla Zuill and Jonathan Stempel OMAHA, Nebraska (Reuters) - Being a big insurer will cost Berkshire Hathaway Inc dearly when severe catastrophes strike, but it is a good place to be in the midst of an economic downturn, Chairman Warren Buffett said ...

 NY Of course he's talking his book here, but Berkshire Hathaway (BRK) CEO Warren Buffett remains extremely positive on Wells Fargo (WFC), the bank in which he owns a 7.2% stake. Speaking at his annual shareholder meeting, he said that when the company ...

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  Canada - Sheldon Alberts On Monday, Berkshire Hathaway chairman Warren Buffett declared the economy had fallen "off a cliff." The nation was also hit with new evidence of the depth of the ongoing recession. Jobless claims grew to 654000 last week in the country, ...

Warren Buffett thinks it is. The American financier invested $230 million in BYD last year. At the time, David Sokol, chairman of MidAmerican, a subsidiary of Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, called the BYD battery "a technology that can really be a game ...

By Lilla Zuill and Jonathan Stempel OMAHA, Nebraska (Reuters) - Warren Buffett is fond of newspapers -- he reads five a day -- but the billionaire investor warned shareholders of his Berkshire Hathaway Inc (BRKa.N: 行情) (BRKb.N: 行情) that the reeling ...

By Liz Claman Question: When you acquire companies they come equipped with managers- Berkshire has done a great job putting the right leaders in the right roles. Occassionally you have to hire someone - what do you look for? ... Buffett: Picking bottoms is impossible FOXBusiness

We have so many extra levels of safety we follow at Berkshire. We got a call on Goldman on a Wednesday - that couldn't have been done the previous Wednesday or the next Wednesday. We were faced with opportunity-cost - and we sold something that under ...

 China - Jonathan Stempel By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - By one measure, Warren Buffett is coming off his worst year ever. But by another measure, the investor may be more popular than ever. Berkshire Hathaway Inc (BRKa.N: 行情) (BRKb.N: 行情), Buffett's insurance and ...

 NEW YORK Warren Buffett, last year's No. 1, saw his fortune decline $25 billion as shares of Berkshire Hathaway fell nearly 50% in 12 months. Mexican telecom titan Carlos Slim Helu maintains his spot in the top three but lost $25 billion. ...

Every year, thousands of Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A) shareholders and Warren Buffett fans attend the company's annual meeting in Omaha, Neb., and its associated events. Since Buffett found out that tickets, formerly only available to shareholders, ...

By Ravi Nagarajan Warren Buffett's annual letter to shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway is one of the most highly anticipated and widely read documents for those interested in business, investments, politics, and economics. Most shareholder letters are ...

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 The Huffington Post News Team Berkshire subsidiaries include insurance, clothing, furniture, candy companies, restaurants, natural gas and corporate jet firms. Berkshire also has major investments in American Express Co., Kraft Foods, Coca-Cola Co. and Wells Fargo & Co.

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 Jeff Matthews(noreply@blogger.com) Today, I signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act into law. Unless, however, that “team of managers” consists of two people, Berkshire Hathaway Chairman Warren Buffett and his equally penurious Vice Chairman, Charlie Munger, well, good luck with that, as they say.

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 Sheldon Liber Filed under: Magazines, Rants and raves, General Electric (GE), Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A), American Express (AXP), Goldman Sachs Group (GS), Wells Fargo (WFC), U.S. Bancorp (USB)When you're at the top of your game you get a lot of attention and Warren Buffett was the focus of a Barron's s...

By Tom Petruno In the battle of Berkshire Hathaway vs. Atlantic hurricane season in Florida, give Berkshire the win. Billionaire Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. won a $224-million bet that Florida would escape major damage from hurricanes this year.

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 Bob Franken That's right. Warren Buffett. Think about it: The man is more popular than God. Probably richer. If he wanted, he could probably make the United States a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, which has been run a helluva lot better than the country has.

By Zac Bissonnette Filed under: Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A), BooksWhen I first heard that Alice Schroeder was writing a biography of Warren Buffett, I was excited. Buffett knows Ms. Schroeder well, and had given her extensive interviews and unprecedented access to his records -- this was sure to be the defin...

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 The Huffington Post News Editors In addition, GE announced that it has reached agreement to sell $3 billion of perpetual preferred stock in a private offering to Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. The perpetual preferred stock has a dividend of 10% and is callable after three years at a 10% premium. In conjunction with this offerin...

By Andrew Leonard The market could not have taken another week" like last week, Buffett told CNBC today, a day after saying his Berkshire Hathaway Inc. will buy a $5 billion stake in Goldman Sachs Group Inc. "I think it was the last thing Hank Paulson wanted to do, but there's no Plan B for this."

Mr Buffett, who runs the investment group Berkshire Hathaway and is widely regarded as the world's most successful investor, said that he was a Democrat because Republicans are more likely to think: "I'm making $80 million a year -- God must have intended me to have a lower tax rate."

Last May, Hillman and other Tribal leaders joined with conservation groups and fishermen to take their grievances straight to Buffett at Warranpalooza, the annual shareholders’ meeting of Buffett’s investment firm Berkshire Hathaway. Buffett declined to address the groups’ appea...

By Jon Ogg Filed under: Analyst reports, Wal-Mart (WMT), Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A), Johnson and Johnson (JNJ), American Express (AXP), MasterCard Inc'A' (MA), Procter and Gamble (PG)Last night there was an interesting edition of MAD MONEY on CNBC. Jim Cramer came out and did a review of many dif...

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...

The whole benefit of Berkshire Hathaway was that Warren Buffett’s investment choices weren’t driven by the kinds of crass manager-level incentives that seem to pervade the mutual fund business. By announcing he intends to pick a manager through a contest, Mr. Buffett will have transfor...

By Douglas McIntyre Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) has too much money. Its chief, Warren Buffett, says he might buy something for $40 to $60 billion, if he can find something cheap. Overspending is against his principles. Permalink | Email this | Comments

By Peter Cohan On Sunday, Warren Buffett said he wanted to buy a huge business -- in the $5 billion to $20 billion range. With $46 billion in cash and $90 billion of cash and fixed-income securities on its balance sheet, Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. (NYSE: BRK.A) can certainly afford to buy a huge business.

By Jerry Gordon Jerry Gordon is a Vice President of Boycott Watch and Member of the Board of American Congress for Truth Berkshire Hathway annual meeting, divestment, israel investment, Sudan, Warren Buffett by Jerry Gordon Yesterday, 24,000 Berkshire Hathaway shareholders, hedge fund managers a...