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Berkshire Hathaway’s annual shareholder meeting kicks off today and, as luck would have it, one of the 27,000 (tiny) fractional owners of the company is a DealBreaker reader. Curtis Walker will be liveblogging the jamboree, which, in year’s past, has included Warren Buffett l…
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3 May, 2008| Economy | Comments (0) @ 13:25

Buffett’s Dollar Talk

Karen Richardson reports from Berkshire Hathaway’s annual meeting.
If Warren Buffett was a cash-flush Martian, he wouldn’t be putting all his Martian currency into the U.S. dollar. That was the billionaire’s way of explaining to shareholders at the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting why he’s happy investing in stocks and buying companies that derive much of their earnings in foreign currencies, and leaving them unhedged.
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3 May, 2008| Economy | Comments (0) @ 12:52

Airport Security Measures and the Demand for Air Travel

Interesting new paper out in the Journal of Law & Economics on the impact of post-9/11 airport security measures on the demand for air travel in the U.S. We examine the impact of two post-9/11 airport security measures—baggage screening and federalization of passenger screening—on demand for air travel in the United States. Exploiting the phased introduction of security measures across airports, we find that b…
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3 May, 2008| Economy | Comments (0) @ 12:10

Buffett’s Straight-Talk Express

Karen Richardson reports from the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting.
None of the 31,000 Berkshire Hathaway shareholders at the Qwest stadium in Omaha rushed for the exits when Chairman Warren Buffett told them they might be better off owning other stocks. “Anyone who expects us to come close to replicating the past should sell their stock. It?s not gonna happen,” he told the hushed crowd.
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3 May, 2008| Economy | Comments (0) @ 11:50

The Two Must-Watch Sectors

The Two Must-Watch Sectors

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3 May, 2008| Economy | Comments (0) @ 11:48

The Berkshire Method: Just Buy It

Karen Richardson reports from the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting.
Warren Buffett and his vice-chairman Charlie Munger frowned on the use of options as ways to buy or sell equities.
“We virtually have never used options as a way to enter or exit a position and we would doubt very much that we do,” he said, adding that Berkshire had owned some puts on Coca-Cola years ago, but they were never exercised. &…
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3 May, 2008| Economy | Comments (0) @ 11:42

Food Prices and Romanticizing Agriculture

Economist Paul Collier, who gave a riveting talk at this year’s TED conference, has an unsurprisingly clear-eyed take on one cure for the current escalation in global food prices: Broadened large-scale commercial agriculture. While that might seem obvious, it is far from the favored solution in many countries. The remedy to high food prices is to increase food supply, something that is entirely feasible. The most realistic way to raise global supply is to r…
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3 May, 2008| Economy | Comments (0) @ 11:41

Qwest Center Stake Out

3 May, 2008| Economy | Comments (0) @ 11:15

Quest Center Stake Out

3 May, 2008| Economy | Comments (0) @ 11:15

The Two Must-Watch Sectors

The Two Must-Watch Sectors

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3 May, 2008| Economy | Comments (0) @ 11:01

Lucci for Chairman?

Karen Richardson reports from the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting.
Soap opera star Susan Lucci stole the stage briefly from Warren Buffett on Saturday morning at the start of the Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholder?s meeting. In a preceding “breaking news” segment on CNBC flashed on the widescreens in Omaha?s Qwest Center, reporter Becky Quick said Mr. Buffett had agreed to swap places with Ms. Lucci, to assume the role of leading man on daytime soap “All My Children,” while Ms. Lucci would take over as CEO of Berkshire.
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3 May, 2008| Economy | Comments (0) @ 11:00

Munger for President

MarketWatch’s Alistair Barr reports from the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting.
Charlie Munger, vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, may have political aspirations, judging by the latest version of the movie produced by the company at every annual shareholder meeting.
In a cartoon, Munger, Chairman Warren Buffett and Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates decide Munger should run for president o…
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3 May, 2008| Economy | Comments (0) @ 10:32

Ron Paul on Money: The Forbidden Issue

Ron Paul on Money: The Forbidden Issue

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3 May, 2008| Economy | Comments (0) @ 10:01

Virtual Recession Sparks NY Times Ad Sales Halt

ScrappleFace has the scoop:

With the nation on the verge of “a near-virtual likely recession”, The New York Times stopped selling advertising today in an effort to help readers conserve “what little money they have left.”

“We realized we were sending mixed messages,” said Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr., “Our reporters and columnists say ‘Economic disaster is upon us’, but our advertisers say ‘Spend, buy, borrow’.”
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3 May, 2008| Economy | Comments (0) @ 9:03

This Chocolatier Doesn’t Melt Under Pressure

This Chocolatier Doesn’t Melt Under Pressure

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3 May, 2008| Economy | Comments (0) @ 9:02

News You Need: Microsoft, Yahoo!

News You Need: Microsoft, Yahoo!

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3 May, 2008| Economy | Comments (0) @ 9:02

Abelson Awards Pulitzer Prize for Fiction to BLS

In Barron’s this week, Alan Abelson laces into BLS on the NFP data:

"We’re talking instead about something much more important, namely, who’ll get the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The winner hands down, we
fearlessly forecast, will be that brilliant narrative confected by, of
all people, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and published just last
Friday under the deceptively bland title "The Employment Situation:
April 2008." Although we’re loath to deprive you of even a modicum of
the thrill of devouring this marvelous work of magic realism by
revealing too much of its contents, rest assured it’s carefully
designed to leave you with a comfy feeling in these rather trying times.
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3 May, 2008| Economy | Comments (0) @ 8:30

The Warren Buffett Show

Karen Richardson reports from the Berkshire Hathaway shareholder meeting.
Encore! Encore! Encore! Encore! Encore! Encore!
If you think you?re seeing a lot of Warren Buffett these days, it?s because you are. In the past year, Mr. Buffett has become an increasingly televised jack-of-several-causes. There?s the estate tax; the fact that he?s taxed at a lower rate than his receptionist; there?s Obama and Hilary; municipal bonds and bond insurance; the recession, the ballooning deficit and the dollar.
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3 May, 2008| Economy | Comments (0) @ 8:28

The 5 a.m. Buffett Breakfast Club

Karen Richardson reports from the Berkshire Hathaway shareholder meeting.
They?re rich. They?re cheerful. They?re morning people.
As early as 5 a.m. Saturday, families with children, bleary-eyed men with Blackberries and foreigners with jetlag began queuing up outside the Qwest Center in Omaha for the investing world?s biggest spectator event: The Berkshire Hathaway Inc. annual shareholder meeting.
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3 May, 2008| Economy | Comments (0) @ 8:15

Hedge Fund Legend Writes Must-Read

Hedge Fund Legend Writes Must-Read

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3 May, 2008| Economy | Comments (0) @ 7:33

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