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Warren Buffett Biographer: "Warren Is In His Element Right Now," Wouldn't Take Treasury Gig

Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 10.08.2008 | Business

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**UPDATE** After the second presidential debate, we went back to Alice Schroeder to ask what she thought about something the candidates said... see th...

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Warren Buffett To Invest $3B In GE, Similar Perks To His Goldman Deal

MarketWatch | Posted 10.01.2008 | Business

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GE today announced plans to offer at least $12 billion of common stock to the public. The underwriters will have a 30-day option to purchase shares re...

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Warren Buffett Opens Up About Love Affair With Katharine Graham

New York Daily News | Rush & Molloy | Posted 09.26.2008 | Business

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The world's richest man is finally opening up about his complicated love life. Warren Buffett, whose shrewd investing has swelled his Berkshire Hatha...

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Buffett's Goldman Deal Is No Charity

DealBook | Posted 09.24.2008 | Business

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Still, Mr. Buffett is not taking big risks based on the structure of the investment. Berkshire Hathaway will receive perpetual preferred shares in Go...

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Buffett Buying $5 Billion Stake In Goldman Sachs

AP | ANNA JO BRATTON | Posted 09.23.2008 | Business

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OMAHA, Neb. — Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is investing at least $5 billion in Goldman Sachs, a huge vote of confidence for one of t...

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Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Accelerates Acquisitions

Bloomberg | Erik Holm | Posted 09.19.2008 | Business

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Billionaire investor Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc., which today agreed to buy Constellation Energy Group Inc., is increasing the pace of de...

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Warren Buffett No Longer Trusts Banks More Than The FDIC Does

Wall Street Journal | Damian Paletta | Posted 09.10.2008 | Business

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Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. has told one of its subsidiaries to stop insuring bank deposits above the amount guaranteed by the federal go...

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Warren Buffett Donates $2 Billion In Berkshire Hathaway Shares To Charities

DealBook | Posted 07.08.2008 | Business

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Warren Buffett has given away 512,169 Class B shares of Berkshire Hathaway stock to three charitable foundations, in keeping with his plan to give awa...

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Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Has Weakest Half Since 1990

Bloomberg.com | Josh P. Hamilton | Posted 07.02.2008 | Business

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July 2 (Bloomberg) -- It must be a bear market because even billionaire Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. has slumped almost 20 percent since ...

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Anheuser-Busch Tells InBev To Stick Its Buyout Offer: Source

Posted 06.26.2008 | Business

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Anheuser-Busch's board of directors will reject Belgian beverage giant InBev's $65-a-share takeover bid, a source told the New York Times. The rejecti...

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Warren Buffett Mum On InBev, Anheuser-Busch Opinion

Clusterstock | Corey Lorinsky | Posted 06.25.2008 | Business

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The news media has reported ad nauseam that Anheuser-Busch's (BUD) most recognizable shareholder is in favor of the $65/share InBev buyout. (Us, too)....

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Auctioning Warren Buffett's Time: Lunch Date May Cost More Than $650K

AP | JOSH FUNK | Posted 06.23.2008 | Business

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OMAHA, Neb. — It's anyone's guess how high the bidding will go this year when the chance to have lunch with investor Warren Buffett is put up fo...

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Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Could Profit $600 Million From Anheuser Sale

Bloomberg | Josh P. Hamilton | Posted 06.18.2008 | Business

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Billionaire Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. may bank a $600 million profit if InBev NV succeeds in its $46.3 billion takeover of Budweiser-ma...

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Warren Buffett Wades Into Budwesier Battle, Will Meet With August Busch IV

The Guardian | James Doran | Posted 06.16.2008 | Business

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Warren Buffett, the investor known as the sage of Omaha, is this week expected to privately step into the $46bn hostile bid by Belgian brewer Inbev fo...

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Warren Buffett Bets $320K That Management Fees Are Crap

NYT | Posted 06.09.2008 | Business

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Warren Buffett, a longtime critic of the fees charged by some money managers, has put his own cash on the line -- or, at least, a small chunk of it --...

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Buffett and Munger reassure shareholders about succession

AP | JOSH FUNK | Posted 05.04.2008 | Business

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OMAHA, Neb. — Warren Buffett tried to reassure his shareholders Saturday that Berkshire Hathaway will be fine once he is gone, but the 77-year-o...

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Berkshire net income falls 64 percent because of derivatives

AP | JOSH FUNK | Posted 05.02.2008 | Business

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OMAHA, Neb. — Berkshire Hathaway Inc. said Friday its first-quarter profit fell 64 percent because it recorded an unrealized $1.6 billion pretax...

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Buffett: I Am A "Political Bigamist"

CNN/Money | Nicholas Varchaver | Posted 04.14.2008 | Business

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Some 15 times a year, Warren Buffett invites a group of business students for an intensive day of learning. Fortune was there for a recent visit. His...

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Bershire CFO Gets More Compensation Than Buffett

CNBC | Josh Funk | Posted 03.17.2008 | Business

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At Berkshire Hathaway Inc., the chief financial officer again brought home more compensation last year than the two billionaires who run the company. ...

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Warren Buffett: Don't Bank On Double-Digit Returns

Fortune | Colin Barr | Posted 02.29.2008 | Business

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Berkshire Hathaway had another excellent year in 2007, posting an 11% gain in net worth, CEO Warren Buffett said in Friday's annual report to sharehol...

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Dairy Queen Faces Franchisee Revolt

AP | Posted 02.28.2008 | Business

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Dairy Queen is facing a dilly of a problem -- a rebellion against the revamping of restaurants by a growing number of mostly mom-and-pop franchise own...

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Buffett Buys Big Stake In Kraft

CNNMoney | Posted 02.15.2008 | Business

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Warren Buffett's investment group, Berkshire Hathaway, bought more than 132 million shares of food company Kraft, according to a document filed with t...

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The Stock Market: A (Psycho)Analysis

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 02.13.2008 | Business

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If the stock market was a person, what kind of person would it be?

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Wall Street Rallies on Buffett News

AP | TIM PARADIS | Posted 02.12.2008 | Business

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NEW YORK — Wall Street finished mostly higher Tuesday after billionaire investor Warren Buffett offered to help out troubled bond insurers, easi...

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Wall Street Rallies on Buffett News

AP | TIM PARADIS | Posted 02.12.2008 | Business

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NEW YORK — Wall Street finished mostly higher Tuesday after billionaire investor Warren Buffett offered to help out troubled bond insurers, easi...

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