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Goldman Sachs, Warren Buffett To Help Small Businesses

AP | Posted 11.18.2009 | Business


NEW YORK -- Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said Tuesday it is teaming with billionaire investor Warren Buffett to invest $500 million to provide thousands o...

Buffett, Bonuses and Executive Greed

Alice Schroeder | Posted 11.16.2009 | Business


Alice Schroeder

Warren Buffett is such an important voice in the business world that, single-handedly, he could influence the way Corporate America is paid.

Warren Buffett and the Business of Life: Part 3 of 7

Alice Schroeder | Posted 11.12.2009 | Books


Alice Schroeder

Buffett had indeed learned through experience that "when in doubt keep holding"; he said, "I've made most of my money sitting on my ass."

Warren Buffett's Biggest Weakness: Interview With Alice Schroeder, Buffett Biographer

fool.com | Mac Greer | Posted 11.10.2009 | Business


o what about Buffett the person? What's his biggest weakness? Does anyone in his circle openly disagree with him? How does he measure his success? In ...

Buffett's Firm Berkshire Hathaway Sees Profits Triple

BBC NEWS | Posted 11.08.2009 | Business


Berkshire Hathaway said its net profit was $3.2bn (£1.9bn) in the three months to September, compared to $1.1bn in the same period last year....

Warren Buffett and the Business of Life: Part 2 of 7

Alice Schroeder | Posted 11.05.2009 | Books


Alice Schroeder

Buffett would always love reading newspapers, but his investing was tightly focused on simple businesses that were as close to immortal as possible. Newspapers no longer qualified.

Warren Buffett Buys A RAILROAD? Berkshire Hathaway Acquires Burlington Northern Railroad

AP | SAMANTHA BOMKAMP | Posted 11.04.2009 | Business


NEW YORK — The biggest name in investing is making what he calls an "all-in wager" on the U.S. economy – $34 billion to own a railroad tha...

Warren Buffett and the Business of Life: Part 1 of 7

Alice Schroeder | Posted 10.29.2009 | Business


Alice Schroeder

Warren Buffett is never more himself than when he is given the chance to invest in something he wants at a price of his choosing.

The Best Risk Reward Proposition

Alan Schram | Posted 10.19.2009 | Business


Alan Schram

This will be a different kind of inflationary cycle. The dollar will decline, but Real estate prices will not be going up because few property owners can raise rents right now.

Warren Buffett: Ken Lewis "Ironic Hero" Of The Financial Crisis

Sep. 16, 2009 | Colin Barr, Senior Writer | Posted 11.17.2009 | Business


Buffett, the billionaire investor who runs Berkshire Hathaway (BRKA, Fortune 500), said Tuesday at Fortune's Most Powerful Women Summit in San Diego t...

Warren Buffett Cell Phone Skills: Did They Doom Lehman?

WSJ | Posted 11.16.2009 | Technology


Could a voicemail that languished for months inside Warren Buffett's cellphone have saved Lehman Brothers? This is the tale recounted from Time's Kare...

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Buys Koenig & Strey Real Estate

NBC Chicago | ANDREW GREINER | Posted 10.17.2009 | Chicago


Billionaire investor Warren Buffet got a piece of Chicago this morning. Buffet's company, Berkshire Hathaway, today acquired Koenig & Strey Real Estat...

Berkshire Hathaway's 2Q Profit Up 14% On Derivatives Gains

AP | JOSH FUNK | Posted 09.10.2009 | Business


OMAHA, Neb. — Warren Buffett's company on Friday reported a 14 percent jump in second-quarter profit as the improving stock market boosted the v...

Warren Buffet Made Millions On Bailout: Reuters

KAJA WHITEHOUSE | Posted 09.05.2009 | Business


Were it not for government bailouts, for which Buffett lobbied hard, many of his company's stock holdings would have been wiped out. Berkshire Hathaw...

Warren Buffett's Web Cartoon: The Secret Millionaire's Club (VIDEO)

Posted 08.24.2009 | Business


When Warren Buffet talks, the world listens. Now you can throw children into the legions of people who follow Buffett's advice. CNBC is reporting toda...

Warren Buffett's Animated Web Series

cnbc.com | Posted 08.24.2009 | Business


Buffett will speak to us in the first of a series of promotional interviews for a new online animated series called Secret Millionaire's Club. Th...

Buffett Lunch: Canadian Firm Salida Capital Pays $1.68 Million To Eat With Warren

AP | Josh Funk | Posted 08.08.2009 | Business


OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- A Canadian investment firm paid $1.68 million in last month's charity auction to win lunch with billionaire investor Warren Buffet...

Warren Buffet On Economy: 'We've Had No Bounce' (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Ryan McCarthy | Posted 07.25.2009 | Business


In an interview with CNBC this week, legendary investor Warren Buffett offered a rather grim assessment of the economy. In other words, forget all the...

Durbin Sold Stocks, Funds Just As Market Plunged

bloomberg.com | James Rowley | Posted 07.16.2009 | Business


June 13 (Bloomberg) -- The Senate's No. 2 Democrat, Dick Durbin, sold more than $115,000 worth of stocks and mutual-fund shares as U.S. stock markets ...

Michael Lewis on Warren Buffett

Robert Teitelman | Posted 06.19.2009 | Business


Robert Teitelman

The irony of Buffett is that his talent and his will are unfathomable, but his flaws are not. The one thing we can truly understand about him is the part of him that's just like the rest of us.

The Exception

Yvette Kantrow | Posted 06.18.2009 | Business


Yvette Kantrow

At a time when the financial press is in the doghouse for cozying up to CEOs and failing to see the economic disaster ahead, Buffett remains above the fray.

Buffett's Berkshire Has First Loss Since 2001

AP | JOSH FUNK | Posted 06.08.2009 | Business


OMAHA, Neb. — Warren Buffett's company reported a $1.5 billion first-quarter loss as it wrote down its ConocoPhillips investment and mostly unre...

Derivatives: The Crystal Meth of Finance

Thomas A. Bass | Posted 06.05.2009 | Business


Thomas A. Bass

The world economy sits on top of the world financial markets, and there is no hope of engineering an economic recovery without a functioning financial system.

Charlie Munger: 'Venal Banks Need Reform'

Seeking Alpha | Trader Mark | Posted 06.05.2009 | Business


One thing about many quite old people is they have a lot of wisdom and are not afraid to speak their minds. Via this Bloomberg article, we have Berksh...

We Need Heroes in American Journalism

Nancy Snow | Posted 06.04.2009 | Media


Nancy Snow

Truth is, we need heroes in American journalism, and I'm less than optimistic that my journalistic hero is going to be a Facebook friend or someone I'm following on Twitter.