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Buffett Suffers Weapons Of Financial Destruction Fallout
Aug 13, 2009, 2:20pm
Posted by Equity Private
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. underestimated the risks of falling stock prices to its billions of dollars of derivatives bets, yet still believes it is valuing the contracts fairly. Noooo, get out! Berkshire revealed its error in a June 26...
Again With The Berkshire Puts
Apr 28, 2009, 11:47am
Posted by Equity Private
Though he claims to be unmoved by share price, it is hard to imagine that Buffett is totally ignoring the crazy ride that is Berkshire's share price, or the constant drubbing the firm (and WB himself) keeps taking over the...
He's So Buff
Mar 13, 2009, 5:03pm
Posted by Equity Private
We know it is part of his folksy-shtick to play the boy from Omaha made good. (Real good). Be this as it may, something feels wrong with the datapoints plotted by three paragraphs in the DealBook's review of Buffett compensation:...
Ratings-Schmatings
Mar 13, 2009, 1:06pm
Posted by Equity Private
Of course, by now you know that a few firms in the business of watching such things (but who shall remain nameless given the very real possibility of reprisals) decided to downgrade Berkshire Hathaway. Just like that. No appeal. No...
The Ghost Of Put Options Past
Feb 20, 2009, 3:59pm
Posted by Equity Private
Berkshire, once again, laboring under the cloud of the long dated index puts the firm has sold, has hit five year lows. The fear is that collapsing indexes, against which Berkshire has written a number of long dated puts to...
Short Termism Hits Berkshire (Or Does It?)
Nov 19, 2008, 1:47pm
Posted by Equity Private
We couldn't help but snicker a bit at the news, reported via Bloomberg, that Berkshire Hathaway CDS costs have "almost tripled in two months." Bloomberg attributes the soaring CDS quote to a series of equity index puts Berkshire wrote some...
Totally Unfounded Rumors: Midday Ratings Summary
Posted in Rumors, Sep 15, 2008, 12:25pm
Posted by Equity Private
As you may know, there might actually be consequences to spreading totally unfounded rumors about firms that may or may not actually be experiencing some level of financial difficulty. How are you the reader expected to know which rumors are...
And Yet, This Is Still Preferable To Ace Greenberg Giving Us Intimate Details About Barbara Walters
Jun 25, 2008, 12:07pm
Posted by Bess Levin
Yet again, Warren Buffett has gone the fuck out of his way to awkwardly marry aberrant sex fetish with folksy business wisdom. In response to a question about what makes people want to sell their companies to him, Buffet said:...
