The way I see it is that my money represents an enormous number of claim checks on society. It is like I have these little pieces of paper that I can turn into consumption.
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August 19 - News
"Admittedly, it is preposterous to suggest that stock speculation is like coin-flipping. I know there is more skill to stock speculation.
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August 19 - News
Buffett would have probably excelled regardless of when he was born, but not unlike the industrial titans of the Gilded Age, it didn't hurt that he came into the world on the ...
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August 17 - News
Warren Buffett, the CEO of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE:BRK.A), is currently worth about $44 billion, according to Forbes' list of the world's richest people.
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August 16 - News
Hidden inflation is an insidious devourer of profit. Forget what the Consumer Price Index is telling us -- higher costs don't always get passed on to the consumer.
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August 14 - News
In the year 1986, Chou Associates Management was founded by Francis Chou.
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August 14 - Hedge Funds
Editor's Note: Related tickers: Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE:BRK.A), BlackBerry Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY), Steinway Musical Instruments Inc (NYSE:LVB), H.J.
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August 14 - Hedge Funds
Warren Buffett never changes his strategy and is right more often than not.
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August 8 - Hedge Funds
Warren Buffett could be considered the greatest investor of all time. Nobody could beat him when it comes to investing results.
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August 8 - News
In any given year, an up-and-coming fund manager is able to make some great investment moves, propelling him to the top of the annual leaderboard.
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August 7 - Hedge Funds
Warren Buffett, who turns 83 years old in August and has been at the helm of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
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August 7 - Hedge Funds
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) CEO Jeff Bezos is nothing if not a buccaneer and a gambler.
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August 6 - Tech
I recently took a trip to my neighborhood book store and perused the business section.
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August 6 - News
The logic is simple: If you are going to be a net buyer of stocks in the future, either directly with your own money or indirectly ... you are hurt when stocks rise.
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August 5 - News
Editor's Note: Related tickers: Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE:BRK.A), The Allstate Corporation (NYSE:ALL), American International Group, Inc.
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August 5 - Hedge Funds
Zacks Investment Research just upgraded electric generating company NV Energy, Inc.
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August 5 - News
The world's greatest investor of all time - Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE:BRK.A) chairman Warren Buffett - has a real distaste for dividends. It may surprise you to hear that.
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July 31 - Hedge Funds
What does this mean? It means we - the consumer - are swiping our cards again, and more often as time goes on! I suppose you might want to own a company to benefit from this macro...
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July 29 - News
Editor's Note: Related tickers: Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE:BRK.A), DaVita HealthCare Partners Inc (NYSE:DVA), Chicago Bridge & Iron Company N.V.
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July 29 - Hedge Funds
Wells Fargo & Co (NYSE:WFC) shares hit an all-time high on July 8. The other three large U.S.
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July 29 - News
The news that Wells Fargo & Co (NYSE:WFC) is exiting the mortgage joint venture arena is grabbing headlines, but it shouldn't surprise anyone.
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July 29 - News
Since 1992, my family has held season tickets for the Milwaukee Brewers.
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July 29 - News
Back in late May, MidAmerican Energy, a subsidiary of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE:BRK.A), made a $5.59 billion offer to buy NV Energy, Inc. (NYSE:NVE).
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July 29 - Hedge Funds
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE:BRK.A) growth over the last year would be impressive, at least, if you ignored the upward drift of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
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July 29 - News
Warren Buffett will turn 83 in August, which means that according to the Social Security Administration's period life table, the world's greatest living investor will have a 91...
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July 27 - News
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
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July 26 - Hedge Funds
Hartford Financial Services Group Inc (NYSE:HIG) will release its quarterly report on Monday, and the insurance company's prospects have been looking increasingly favorable lately...
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July 25 - News
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE:BRK.A) has delivered truly amazing returns for investors who were smart enough to invest with Buffett and Munger for the long term.
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July 24 - News
Many popular consumer brands are owned by a parent company that you've never heard of.
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July 24 - News
The incredible bull market fed by Ben Bernanke's monetary stimulus has inflated the prices of many stocks well beyond their intrinsic value.
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July 24 - News
Last year, ConocoPhillips (NYSE:COP) spun out its downstream assets last year as Phillips 66 (NYSE:PSX) in order to focus more on its exploration and production operations.
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July 23 - Stock Analysis
A slew of corporate earnings announcements have recently marked the opening session of Q2 earnings.
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July 23 - News
Billionaire investor Warren Buffett joined in a ceremony opening a new customer service center for the Geico insurance company in suburban Indianapolis.
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July 22 - Hedge Funds
Editor's Note: Related tickers: Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. (NYSE:CMG), Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE:HLF), Hess Corp. (NYSE:HES), Citigroup Inc (NYSE:C), Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
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July 19 - Hedge Funds
On July 16, giant beverage company The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE:KO) released its quarterly report.
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July 18 - News
The wind of change is blowing through the headquarters of Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT).
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July 18 - News
For those of you keeping track, remember that Krispy Kreme Doughnuts (NYSE:KKD) already completed a $20 million share repurchase program last fiscal year, and Monday's press ...
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July 17 - News
Fool columnist Alyce Lomax wrote a great article on Costco Wholesale Corporation (NASDAQ:COST) this week, and it got me to thinking.
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July 17 - News
The deal not only unsettled investors by employing a combination of cash and stock, but it was also significantly larger than the typically small acquisitions that President and...
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July 17 - News
One of the better known investment rules of Mr. Buffett is to only invest in companies with sufficiently wide economic moats.
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July 17 - News
Editor's Note: Related tickers: Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
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July 15 - Hedge Funds
The Progressive Corporation (NYSE:PGR) will release its June earnings report on Thursday, but shareholders haven't waited to start the celebration.
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July 15 - News
This weekend's horrific railcar explosion in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, has drawn sudden attention to the rapidly expanding use of railcars to transport crude oil from where it's ...
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July 15 - News
Over on MarketWatch, a site run by the Wall Street Journal, Paul Merriman recently published an article entitled Warren Buffett: More myth than legend.
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July 15 - News
The share price is lower than it was during the apex of the financial crisis.
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July 12 - News
On Monday, Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE:BRK.B) CEO Warren Buffett just gave a total of 22,870,529 Class B shares of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
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July 12 - News
Mr. Buffett, the CEO of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE:BRK.A) is famous for his unique investment theses.
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July 11 - News
