Warren Buffett and the Business of Life: Part 2 of 7
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.
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.
Dan Dorfman | Posted 11.04.2009 | Business
Go figure this crazy market following another bout of schizophrenia. First came terrific Thursday, then wicked Friday, as big money was made and even bigger money was lost.
Posted 11.04.2009 | Business
And the winner is... Ford Motors. Of all of the stocks in the Standard & Poor's 500 index, Ford has shown the biggest leap in value since Presiden...
Diane Francis | Posted 11.03.2009 | Business
CEO Prem Watsa discusess how Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. of Toronto has not only weathered the greatest financial storm since the Depression, but has profited mightily.
Huffington Post | Gazelle Emami | Posted 11.02.2009 | Business
Let's get our bearings here. What is short-selling? NYU Professor of Finance Steven Figlewski can explain: "You sell the stock with the expectation, ...
Robert Lenzner | Posted 10.31.2009 | Business
What can an investor do? For advice, I sat down with Marc Harris of RBC, one of the few large banks that maneuvered a clear course through the economic turmoil.
Ross Hyzer | Posted 10.27.2009 | Comedy
At first, it looked like the recession was going to be a disaster, but now it's is over, so in the end, all's well that ends well. Right?
Loral Langemeier | Posted 10.26.2009 | Living
I love Halloween. how often do you get to say "Boo!" without looking the fool? Oh, but wait a minute. If you're the Dow Jones Index, you get to say "Boo! I fooled you" often.
Arjuna Ardagh | Posted 10.26.2009 | Living
When it is easy to make money just by buying a house and waiting, there is not much incentive to look deeper into yourself -- to find out what you were born to give, what your unique talents are.
Henry Blodget | Posted 10.20.2009 | Business
There's a saying in poker: If you don't know who the patsy is at the table, it's you. Next time you feel like bellying up to the Wall Street poker table, therefore, ask yourself again who the sucker is.
Stephanie Adamowicz | Posted 10.19.2009 | New York
When the Dow closed above 10,000 points last week and the Frieze art fair opened in London, art market observers were presented with an opportune time to take stock.
Roll Call | Alex Knott | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics
The recent surge on Wall Street has created a windfall for some Congressional campaigns that invested their political contributions in the stock marke...
Henry Blodget | Posted 10.17.2009 | Business
Jim Cramer's stock "call of a lifetime" came 53 weeks ago, on October 6, 2008. But was it really so wise?
Sen. Bernie Sanders | Posted 10.16.2009 | Business
The top 1 percent owns more wealth than the bottom 90 percent. CEOs of large corporations earn 400 times what their workers make. That is not what America is supposed to be about.
Diane Francis | Posted 10.15.2009 | Business
An examination of the causes of the financial meltdown and proposals for reform to prevent new catastrophic bubbles from forming and bursting.
Posted 10.14.2009 | Business
Scroll down for chart For the first time in over a year, the Dow Jones Industrial Index briefly hit 10,000. While much of the economy is still lang...
Henry Blodget | Posted 10.14.2009 | Business
There's no way to really understand the meaning of the investment mantra "stocks for the long run," unless you understand how long the long run can really be. And how long can it be? Long.
Dan Dorfman | Posted 10.15.2009 | Business
Real worry has a very short half-life on Wall Street of say three to six months. After every giant decline, there's an enormous rebound and the thing for investors to keep in mind is that we're still in one.
Robert Creamer | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics
The financial sector, including the big insurance companies, has morphed into a cancer growing on our economy -- a cancer that could easily strangle our prospects for long-term economic security.
Dan Dorfman | Posted 10.15.2009 | Business
Keeping in mind that the market has already ballooned some 50% in the past seven months -- meaning you just could be late to the party -- what do you buy?
Posted 10.09.2009 | Business
In an interview with CNBC today, billionaire investor Carl Icahn warned that the economy is still "on a precipice." Because the market is acting "schi...
Dan Dorfman | Posted 10.09.2009 | Business
The bull-bear debate rages on, but no two ways about it: the bull has firmly grabbed the Wall Street reins. The bears are still out there hollering fire, but the fact of life is no one is paying any attention to the dire warnings.
Leo W. Gerard | Posted 10.07.2009 | Business
Anything Goes capitalism workers' lives, but it sure does work for the private equity firms. They made around $750 million in profits from the now-indebted and bankrupt Simmons.
The Big Picture | Barry Rithholtz | Posted 10.06.2009 | Business
Far be it from me to challenge a 2-time Nobel prize winner, but sometimes, indeed, quite often, markets decouple from the economic fundamentals. I ...
Dan Dorfman | Posted 10.06.2009 | Business
On the surface, the U.S.'s failure to win the 2016 Olympic games is no big deal. But others see it as indicative of problems down the road. Is the IOC's decision a red flag the market should be wary of?
Alice Schroeder | Posted 11.05.2009 | Books