Warren Buffett Made $390 Million On Financial Weapons Of Mass Destruction
Berkshire Hathaway's Q2 earnings are out. The massive conglomerate run by Warren Buffett earned a whopping $3.91 billion or $2,384 per share, up from $3.72 billion or $2,262 per share a year ago.One...
View ArticleWarren Buffett Thinks Bryan Cranston's 'Breaking Bad' Meth Drug Lord Is A...
Warren Buffett is 82, a billionaire, and a huge fan of "Breaking Bad." The Berkshire Hathaway CEO showed up last week to the premiere of season 5's final eight episodes at Lincoln Center. While...
View ArticleWarren Buffett Has A Whopping 9,000% Gain On His Washington Post Investment...
Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos just spent $250 million purchasing The Washington Post.You may recall that Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway is the largest and among the longest-tenured shareholders in...
View ArticleConnecticut Man Is The Warren Buffett Of Bass
NORTH BRANFORD, Conn. (AP) — When Greg Myerson heads out in his boat, some fishermen will follow him. The famous want to fish with him. He's the Warren Buffett of the fishing world, giving seminars in...
View ArticleBill Ackman Invokes An Old Line From Warren Buffett When Explaining Why He...
Activist investor Bill Ackman stepped down from JCPenney's board today following a public feud with the retailer's board of directors. CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin caught up with Ackman this morning...
View ArticleWarren Buffett Placed Bets On Dish Network And Suncor Energy, Sold Gannett In...
Berkshire Hathaway, the conglomerate run by Warren Buffett, just filed its 13F, detailing its holdings in various stocks at the end of the second quarter.According to the filing, Berkshire entered into...
View ArticleTake A Tour Of Warren Buffett's Office At Berkshire Hathaway
It's Warren Buffett's birthday today!The Oracle of Omaha is now 83 years young.And he still works.Even in this age of Bloomberg Terminals and high speed trading, Buffett doesn't even have a computer at...
View ArticleThe Secret To Charlie Munger's Success
Charlie Munger is Warren Buffett's co-chairman of Berkshire Hathaway and an investing genius in his own right. He's almost 90, six years older than Buffett, but every bit as sharp and cagey even in his...
View ArticleYou Have Got To Take This Virtual Tour Of The Largest Solar Installation In...
California is home to not only the largest photovoltaic installation in the world, but also the largest solar thermal.And the latter is almost finished, and now you can take a Virtual Tour.When...
View ArticleRepublicans Prove That They're Living In An Another Reality By Dredging Up...
Coming out of a meeting to lay out their new strategy to defund Obamacare as a condition for government-funding and debt-ceiling bills, Republicans said they had the momentum.What is the Republican...
View ArticleCARL ICAHN: The Stock Market Is Fully Valued
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn told CNBC's Maria Bartiromo in a telephone interview this afternoon that he agrees with Warren Buffett that stocks are fully valued. "I think at the risk of being...
View ArticleHow Buffett, Musk And Other Multi-Billionaires Hit It Big (Interactive Graphic)
It used to be the first million. Now, you only turn heads when you hit a billion.Warren Buffett, the iconic chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, is worth $53.5 billion. He wasn't always. But Buffett...
View ArticleWhy Warren Buffett Called The Fed 'The Greatest Hedge Fund In History'
In a world in which all the matters is "scale", the ability to Martingale down on losing bets as close to infinity as possible (something which JPMorgan learned with the London Whale may not be the...
View ArticleThere Have Been Some Pretty Brutal Changes At Heinz Since Warren Buffett...
It's not all Dilly bars and Cherry Cokes when Warren Buffett takes over your company, Bloomberg reports. When the Oracle of Omaha decides you're ready for Berkshire — at least in Heinz's case — it's...
View ArticleWarren Buffett's Fourth Tweet Ever Was About 'Breaking Bad'
Billionaire investing legend Warren Buffett is a fan of AMC's "Breaking Bad."In fact, his fourth Tweet ever came two minutes into Sunday night's series finale."Not even the Oracle knows what will...
View ArticleWarren Buffett Is Scoring Huge Today Off A 2008 Investment He Made In Goldman...
It's an especially nice pay day for Warren Buffett.Today Goldman Sachs will give him $2 billion in cash and 13.1 million shares as The Oracle exercises warrants he bought during the financial crisis,...
View ArticleWarren Buffett On Washington: 'We'll Go Right Up To The Point Of Extreme...
Warren Buffett, the "Oracle of Omaha", was on CNBC's "Squawk Box" speaking with Andrew Ross Sorkin. Former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson was also on CNBC.During this segment, they talked about the...
View ArticleWarren Buffett Makes A Killing On Mars Candy
Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRKA)(NYSE:BRKB) Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett has logged a lot of wins in the wake of the late-2000s crisis. During the crisis itself, the firm served as a white knight...
View ArticleWarren Buffett's 'LeBron James Analogy' Shows The Limits Of Diversification
I have a "love-hate" relationship with LeBron James.I was turned off by "The Decision" -- a crass July 2010 show in which he announced that he would be "taking his talents to South Beach" to play for...
View ArticleIt's Just Silly To Own Berkshire Hathaway Stock (BRK)
Earlier this week I pointed to the fact that there is little or no reason to ever own Berkshire Hathaway? Why would you even bother?Since making these comments, the twitterati and financial bloggers in...
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