OMAHA, Neb. Warren Buffett says the economic turmoil that contributed to a 62 percent profit ... Berkshire Hathaway Inc.: http://www.berkshirehathaway.com Warren Buffett's 2008 letter: http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters ...

OMAHA, Nebraska Billionaire Warren Buffett said Saturday the U.S. government is generally taking the right actions to help the economy recover, and it should be given ...

... during the 1982-2007 bull market, they would have ended up with a 25 percent smaller return. No one, not even Warren Buffett, can time the market, laymen are warned, and those who duck in and out do so at their peril. So stay the course ...

... certainly seek better upfront terms. If there is any doubt about this, we have an empirical example. Late last year, Warren Buffett took a stake in Goldman Sachs. His terms, simplified, were a $5 billion loan with 10 percent interest (dividend ...

... watch a vital component of American democracy fade into irrelevance," Swensen wrote. Coll appealed to billionaires Warren Buffett and Bill Gates for help. "If you'll just put up the first billion," he wrote in an article in The New Yorker ...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) Warren Buffett tried to reassure his shareholders Saturday that Berkshire Hathaway ... meeting. "Well, we still have a rising young man here named Warren Buffett," Munger said, to which Buffett joked that everyone seems ...

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... Also there, for good measure, were former Fed chief Paul Volcker and everyone's favorite mega-rich guy, Warren Buffett. "There was no dissent over whether there should be a stimulus," says Bernstein, "just over whether it should ...

... 73 billion. The drop was likely exacerbated by a higher-than-average total for foundation gifts in 2006, when Warren Buffett gave part of his fortune to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Kathleen McCarthy, director of the Center on ...