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- Warren Buffett and the Return of the Railroads
- Sky-high energy prices, increasingly crowded commuter corridors, and worries about the environment are setting the stage for trains to thunder once again across the US moving commerce and people, predicts Harvard University professor John R. Stilgoe. “Train travel will supplant highway and air travel in the next few decades....
- Blog posts 2008-04-16
- Is a Good Face Good for Business?
- Facial coding, the idea that your expression gives away what you are really thinking, was put forth some 40 years ago by psychologist Paul Ekman . But does it work in business? Can you tell what CEOs really think, just by looking, or are they so carefully trained that...
- Blog posts 2008-02-26
- Warren Buffett: How He Does It
- Did one knew that a $10,000 investment in Berkshire Hathaway in 1965, the year Warren Buffett took control of it, would grow to be worth nearly $30 million by 2005? By comparison, $10,000 in the S&P 500 would have grown to only about $500,000. Whether one likes him or not,...
- White papers 2005-04-22
- Buffett Doubles Down on Embattled Insurers
- Lots of people are down on the prospects for many big U.S. health plans, which have been battered by declining enrollment, bad claims management, poor investment performance, and continued run-ins with state insurance regulators. But uber-investor Warren Buffett sees a silver lining somewhere in all that bad news. ...
- Blog posts 2008-05-18
- With $5B Goldman Play, Buffett Banks on Fed's Bailout
- With his $5 billion investment in Goldman Sachs, super-investor Warren Buffett is betting the proposed $700 billion economic bailout package, now being hotly debated before Congress, will soon pass without any major changes or restrictions. Once the proposed bailout legislation is law, the U.S. government becomes the ultimate buyer of bad...
- Blog posts 2008-09-24
- With Bailout In Sight, Big Private Investors Back Banks
- While the proposed $700 billion, taxpayer-backed rescue of the economy is grabbing the nation's undivided attention, private investors are pouring billions into the U.S. financial system and backing banking groups poised to survive the current crisis. Right now, an estimated $40 billion in outside money is being pumped into some of the country's biggest banking concerns....
- Blog posts 2008-09-29
- Buffett's Bottom-Fishing For Fun and Profit
- Is it too soon for bottom fishing? Not if you're Warren Buffett. The Sage of Omaha, through his Berkshire Hathaway Inc. firm, may invest between $3 billion and $6 billion in General Electric Co. and perhaps $2 billion in Goldman Sachs Group Inc. As...
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- Sure, Buffett is Shrewd -- He Wants the Bailout, Too
- Throughout this ongoing economic crisis, the hardcore anti-bailout crowd crows that everything can be fixed if we just act more like multi-billionaire Warren Buffett. Apparently, Buffett sees gold where others envision only muck. So the "Oracle of Omaha" is digging deep--but not too deep, mind you--to acquire...
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- Energy Roundup: Warren Buffett Goes Nuclear, DoE Awards $17.6 Million to Solar Startups, and More
- Warren Buffet may go nuclear on EDF-Constellation deal -- Billionaire icon Warren Buffett is dealing with shareholder protests over the planned merger between the French electricity firm EDF and Constellation Energy, the U.S. nuclear energy company he recently agreed to buy for $.7 billion. [Source: The U.K. Guardian] ...
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- How to Create a "Bridge to Somewhere" When You Get a Tough Question
- There was an interesting moment in the McCain-Obama debate on Tuesday when Tom Brokaw asked both of them "Who do you have in mind for Treasury Secretary?" It was a pretty stupid question, actually, since Brokaw knows full well that neither is in a position to reveal...
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Is This a Game-Changer for the Global Economy?
- There are many ways to look at the evolving financial crisis. And how you view it is going to shape your fundamental business decisions over the next few weeks, months, and years. If you believe in the basic tenants of capitalism, you've seen this all before --...
- Blog posts 2008-10-24
- Business Bestsellers:Read 'Em and Leap
- Warren Buffett's biography and Dan Roam's book on visual problem solving are the only books to make Amazon.com business bestsellers and its editors 'best of' picks for 2008. Many of these books are not yet nominated for BNET's Best Business Books of 2008. There is still time for you to...
- Blog posts 2008-11-20
- What Does Warren Buffett Like About Wells Fargo?
- This weekend, Warren Buffett stunned shareholders when he expressed his enthusiasm for Wells Fargo. by Daniel M. Harrison
- Blog posts 2009-05-05
- It's Like Old Times for IPOs and Insurers Are Piling In
- Remember the go-go ‘90's, when fast money was made in virtually every initial public offering? Shares of a fresh face would double on the initial day of trading, investment banks like Morgan Stanley that were managing the offering would grab their seven percent and no one would mind except for the...
- Blog posts 2009-10-09
- Berkshire Hathaway Buys Out Burlington Northern for $26B
- Berkshire Hathaway Inc. agreed to to a $26 billion deal to acquire Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp., the country's second-largest railroad holding company. This is the biggest acquisition ever made for Berkshire Hathaway. Berkshire Hathaway chairman and chief executive Warren Buffett said in a statement, "Berkshire's $34 billion...
- Blog posts 2009-11-03
- Buffett and the Limits to 'Awaiting Better Times'
- Kevin S. Price submits: With the publication of Warren Buffett's opinion piece in the New York Times, we'd like to revisit the question of selling equities into the maw of this growling bear. As we've written recently (here and here, for example), the big problem with selling at these...
- External links 2008-10-17
- A Bailout for Berkshire?
- Julian Van Erlach submits: Warren Buffett, considered by many to be the world’s smartest investor, rarely if ever gives public advice; until now. He recently urged Americans to buy stocks. I do not however, recall him issuing us a sell call prior to the $8T, 40% loss of...
- External links 2008-10-23
- Comcast Looks Incredibly Cheap
- Ockham Research submits: Let’s face it, those stocks once thought to be “safe” no longer are. Over the last two months even the most strident of bulls has lost at least some of their confidence. Consumers are cash strapped, unemployment is rising and the stock market has tanked. So,...
- External links 2008-10-24
- 5 Reasons to Ignore Buffett
- Tick Talk submits: Within the past two weeks my neighbor, my lawyer, and my doctor each told me that Warren Buffett is suggesting that Americans buy shares in American companies. I tolerated the first two, but I really let my doctor have it today. I blurted out - “AND???” “How does that apply...
- External links 2008-10-26
- Warren Buffet, The Ultimate Dividend Investor
- Dobromir Stoyanov submits: Warren Buffett is the greatest investor in America. The famous value investor topped Forbes richest individuals list in 2008, overthrowing his pal Bill Gates from Microsoft MSFT from his twelve year period of holding this title. Investors have long followed Buffett’s advice on stock selection, economic issues...
- External links 2008-11-02
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