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S&P Cuts Berkshire Hathaway's Rating

Reuters | Posted 05.16.2013 | Business

Credit-rating agency Standard & Poor's on Thursday cut its rating on Berkshire Hathaway Inc , the insurance and industrial conglomerate controlled by ...

'It Behooves This Very Rich Country To Have Less Inequality'

Posted 05.07.2013 | Business

Warren Buffett, the CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, has been on a media tear over the last few days, with the obligatory news peg being the company's annua...

A Young Warren Buffett, the Stock Market and TV

Jeremy Harris Lipschultz | Posted 05.06.2013 | Media
Jeremy Harris Lipschultz

The Oracle of Omaha explained stock market psychology to a local television reporter more than 50 years ago, a new documentary reveals.

What Warren Buffett Isn't Saying

The Huffington Post | Jillian Berman | Posted 05.07.2013 | Business

Warren Buffett reminded all of us last week that Corporate America could do more to advance women in the workplace. Perhaps he should start with his o...

The Woodstock of Capitalism

Dylan Ratigan | Posted 05.04.2013 | Impact
Dylan Ratigan

Every year on this day, tens of thousands of people make the pilgrimage to Omaha, Nebraska to hear two of the worlds richest men discuss everything from cultural trends, to love and marriage, to assigning probabilities to terrorist attacks. Those men are Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger, of course.

Protests At Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Meeting

AP | Posted 05.04.2013 | Business

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Dozens of Utah coal miners are picketing outside the Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting in downtown Omaha. The protesters are...

Buffett 'In Agreement' On Successor

Reuters | Posted 05.05.2013 | Business

(Corrects word in quote by Burlington Northern CEO to "consumption" instead of "construction" in 7th graph) * Does not name successor,...

Great News For Buffett

AP | JOSH FUNK | Posted 05.03.2013 | Business

OMAHA, Neb. — Berkshire Hathaway's first-quarter profit jumped 51 percent as its insurance companies performed well and the value of its investm...

Warren Buffett, Waltons Get Welfare From Wisconsin Taxpayers

Al Norman | Posted 04.03.2013 | Business
Al Norman

Two of the richest families on the planet -- the Waltons and the Buffetts -- have taken public welfare from taxpayers to help clean up a contaminated land that will soon sprout a Wal-Mart superstore.

Mark Gongloff

Warren Buffett To Fellow CEOs: Stop Your Whining

HuffingtonPost.com | Mark Gongloff | Posted 03.01.2013 | Business

Warren Buffett has a message for his fellow CEOs: Stop your whining. In his latest annual letter to shareholders, the Berkshire Hathaway CEO and st...

Buffett Reloads Elephant Gun

Reuters | Posted 05.01.2013 | Business

(Reuters) - Warren Buffett has reloaded his elephant gun. The Berkshire Hathaway chief executive, who famously said in 2011 he was using an elephan...

Ketchup Or Sequestration?

Rev. Seamus P. Finn, OMI | Posted 04.28.2013 | Business
Rev. Seamus P. Finn, OMI

In between the analysis and absorption of the impact of both these government actions, Warren Buffett, the sage of Omaha, announced his intentions to buy the H.J. Heinz, the beloved ketchup brand of most Americans, for $23 billion.

Dead Market Having Major Comeback

AP | CANDICE CHOI and JOSH FUNK | Posted 02.15.2013 | Business

NEW YORK -- Warren Buffett and a fellow billionaire are teaming up to snap up the Heinz ketchup company, marking the food industry's biggest ever deal...

Warren Buffett Reveals He Donated A Bajillion Dollars In 2012

AP | Posted 04.06.2013 | Impact

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Billionaire Warren Buffett gave Berkshire Hathaway stock worth $21.6 million away in the second half of 2012. Buff...

Buffett Buys Another Newspaper

AP | Posted 04.02.2013 | Media

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. said Thursday that it is adding the Greensboro, N.C., News & Record to its growing n...

Ex-Warren Buffett Employee Tears Down Billionaire

The Huffington Post | Caroline Fairchild | Posted 01.07.2013 | Business

One of Warren Buffett's ex-employees is lashing out against his former boss. David Sokol, a man who once seemed on-track to succeed Buffett at Ber...

Warren Buffett's Big Bet

Reuters | Posted 03.05.2013 | Business

* MidAmerican Energy in deal for 579 MW project * SunPower to receive between $2.0-$2.5 billion * SunPower shares close ...

Warren Buffett's Sneaky Sale

AP | JOSH FUNK | Posted 02.25.2013 | Business

OMAHA, Neb. — Warren Buffett's company has sold two short-line railroads it recently discovered it owned to satisfy regulators who might have re...

Warren Buffett: Jamie Dimon Is Best Person For Treasury Secretary

The Huffington Post | Mark Gongloff | Posted 11.27.2012 | Business

If you liked Tim Geithner as Treasury Secretary, then you're going to absolutely love Jamie Dimon in the role, according to Warren Buffett. Last ni...

Ex-Romney Adviser: Buffett Is 'A Master Of Tax Avoidance'

GREG MANKIW'S BLOG | GREG MANKIW | Posted 11.26.2012 | Business

Warren Buffett has an op-ed in today's NY Times on one of his most popular themes: The rich should pay more in taxes. At first blush, his position se...

Warren Buffett Now Has A Huge Stash Of Party Supplies

AP | JOSH FUNK | Posted 01.02.2013 | Business

OMAHA, Neb. — Warren Buffett will soon be prepared to throw a giant party for almost any occasion now that his Berkshire Hathaway is buying Orie...

Charlie Munger, Jr. -- Buying Elections with Daddy's Money

Rick Jacobs | Posted 12.08.2012 | Politics
Rick Jacobs

Folks, this is not an election; it's an auction. And if we let the highest bidders win, Californians -- all of us -- will lose.

Warren Buffett's Favorite Investments

Posted 10.06.2012 | Business

As CEO and primary shareholder of Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffett, the world's most famous investor, has developed a well-known reputation of buyin...

Analog, Warren Buffett and Digital Media

Jeremy Harris Lipschultz | Posted 11.28.2012 | Media
Jeremy Harris Lipschultz

Buffett's methodology as an extremely successful investor and one of the wealthiest billionaires was and is to act as a good reporter and "assign" himself a story each day to learn the true value of a company.

'It's A Great Day For Me'

AP | The Associated Press | Posted 11.16.2012 | Business

NEW YORK — Warren Buffett says he's done with radiation treatments for cancer, and the Oracle of Omaha seems eager to move on. The billionaire ...