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Warren Buffett Makes Pit-Stop At God's Workshop, Offers Pick Me Up
Nov 12, 2009, 12:47pm
Posted by Bess Levin
As you're aware, Warren Buffett is in the city to talk to the youngsters at Columbia's b-school, and to check out Becky Quick's rack. He got in early yesterday though, and hand some time his hands. After spending the morning...
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...
Warren Buffett Could Use A Little Bill Ackman In Him
Jun 17, 2009, 10:00am
Posted by Dealbreaker
The following post is by "Gatzzb," a friend of Dealbreaker. Over the last decade few investors have been more quoted - and emulated - than Warren Buffett, the Oracle of Omaha. And for good reason. Mr. Buffett remains one of...
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...
Blogo To Obama: Deliver The Oracle!
Dec 09, 2008, 2:11pm
Posted by Equity Private
Later on November 11, 2008, ROD BLAGOJEVICH talked with Advisor A. Advisor A indicated that he will stay "on top" of getting the Senate Candidate 5 information leaked to the particular Sun Times columnist. ROD BLAGOJEVICH again raised the idea...
Warren, Put The Pickup Truck Back In The Garage, The Dealership Called. You Have To Go Pick Up The SL
Nov 24, 2008, 11:33am
Posted by Equity Private
Is anyone else getting tired of this folksy act by the Oracle of O? We sure are. "Oh, those complex derivatives, we leave those to the fancy city-folk. Financial weapons of mass destruction. Exotic. Complex. We leave those to the...
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...
Buffett For Treasury Secretary
Oct 13, 2008, 7:15pm
Posted by Equity Private
In a move which makes it difficult to determine if the government is emulating the Europeans or Warren Buffett (we like the Buffett angle much better) the government (we read this as "The Treasury") is poised to slup up preferred...
All That Glitters Is Not Goldman
Oct 10, 2008, 12:28pm
Posted by Equity Private
Remember when the mainstream media was fawning over the multi-millions Warren Buffett had made in 48 hours with his investment in Goldman Sachs? How his $5 billion dollar preferred stock structure with a 10% dividend and the clever warrants he...
Tilson on Buffett
Oct 01, 2008, 3:41pm
Posted by Equity Private
Well, I suppose if I were a Berkshire shareholder I would be pretty happy with the fire sale prices the Oracle has been commanding for his purchases as well. So, when Whitney Tilson jumps on CNBC to crow about Buffett's...
Warren Buffett Owns You
Sep 26, 2008, 11:37am
Posted by Equity Private
Not content to deal with its "underperform" rating, Wells Fargo prodded its way into an Y-class full coach fare "neutral," rating, hopefully on the way to an upgrade that will land it right smack in the middle of Business Class....
Perverse Incentives
Sep 25, 2008, 11:29am
Posted by Equity Private
We've had a cautious eye on Clusterstock since our old friend John Carney went over there to do "mature work." (It better pay better, because where's the fun in that?) Seems voyeuristic of us though, doesn't it? Spying on our...
Chocolate Flavored Gum?
Sep 25, 2008, 11:14am
Posted by Equity Private
Shareholders apparently overwhelmingly approved the Wrigley - Mars merger, promising to create one, massive ball of chewing gum mixed with chocolate and nougat goodness. It's either a great thing, or akin to that time in sixth grade when you ate...
Buffett On Bailout
Sep 08, 2008, 10:18am
Posted by Bess Levin
Whatever your thoughts on the matter of the this little mortgage rescue are, you cannot ignore the toll it's taking on Warren Buffett. CNBC had him on this morning in a phone interview with Becky Quick, who called in from...
You'd Like That, Wouldn't You?
Aug 22, 2008, 10:27am
Posted by Bess Levin
Becky Quick: One of the things we'd like to get straight to, though, is what you see happening in the economy right now. We've been talking to you for some time about what you see as some significant problems...
Buffett Lunch Goes For Over 2 Million, Non-Sequitur Sex Analogies On The House
Jul 02, 2008, 11:37am
Posted by Bess Levin
Warren Buffett's sixth annual charity lunch saw its largest ever winning bid when Zhao Danyang of the Hong Kong-based Pureheart China Growth Investment Fund proffered $2,110,100 to break bread with the Oracle of Omaha. Last year, the proceeds of the...
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:...
