The just-published 27th annual Forbes 400 list, a ranking of the wealthiest people in the world, does not disappoint. Buffett, Gates, Carlos Slim, the Ikea guy, Page and Brin, Ellison, Bloomberg, the Koch’s…all your faves are here again this year although the order of the top 25 has seen quite a bit of jostling and adjustment. One minor…
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Jamie Dimon is a Dreamboat
I’m a happily married man, but Jamie Dimon’s Chamber of Commerce speech today set my heart aflutter and was EXACTLY what the market and the media needed to hear after the last few weeks. A lot of the mud that’s been hurled at Wall Street lately has been completely warranted but at a certain point, its…
TMI, Warren Buffett, TMI.
Are you kidding me with this guy? Get off the TV already! Enough! Is it me or has Warren Buffett made more television appearances lately than Ryan Seacrest? Today was a full court press with Warren on CNBC more than Erin Burnett. They asked him like 90 questions, he even sat there while they dissected…
AIG's $60 Billion Loss, Buffett's Mea Culpa
Death is Pretty Final I’m Collecting Vinyl I’m Gonna DJ at the End of the World! – R.E.M. And the Deflation Olympics marches on with a more vicious news cycle this morning than usual. First up, the best-run insurance company on earth, AIG, announces yet another staggering loss for the fourth quarter, this time in…
Hot Links: Berkshire, UBS and the Microsoft Store
Hot Links for Weekend Reading Warren Buffett has had a tough year so far and an especially tough week. The Bespoke Investment Group shows us the ugly year-to-date evidence. Berkshire Hathaway common stock was demolished during a week that saw many of Buffett’s largest stock holdings plummet, for example Wells Fargo and US Bancorp. On…
