Berkshire Hathaway Newslist
Best's Review Of Berkshire
Buffett on sale: Berkshire Hathaway may be hard to figure out, but Warren Buffett's stock is looking incredibly cheap (March 10, 2000)
A Buying Opportunity for Buffett Believers (2/15/200)
Those with Buffett Fever gather for Berkshire meeting (1996 Meeting Notes)
Berkshire Hathaway: Capitalist Cult or Community
A Sturdy Stock for the Year of the Luddite
National Electricity Policy: Barriers to Competitive Generation (Transcript of the David Sokol Speech 7/27/2001)
The Changing Structure of the Electric Power Industry
Editorial: An Acquisition (Gen Re)
Berkshire's September 12, 2001 Press Release
The Berkshire Bunch (10/11/1999)
The Great Santullis (11/01/1999)
Upgrade: In Blow to Big Carriers, NetJets Sells Shares in Tiny Planes (4/23/2002)
Inside NetJets' Control Room (Cigar Aficionado Magazine, July/August 2002)
Working for Warren (11/11/2002)
Wowing Warren (Barry and Eliot Tatelman)
Berkshire: Strong in Times of Trial
Building a Company Warren Buffett Would Buy (1/27/2003)
Buffett Wrestles With Cash After Cleaning Up Insurance Units (3/7/2003)
A Woman Entrepreneur Tells Her Story: Doris Christopher
Pampered Chef founder says ethical practices key to entrepreneurial success
(4/15/03)
Pampered Chef chief: Family still comes first (8/10/2003)
'Magnificent' gift enhances family resiliency program
The Pampered Chef Family Resiliency Program Announces Gift from Doris and Jay Christopher
The Christopher Center for Library and Information Resources: A $15 million gift - the largest in Valparaiso University history - will help fund construction of a new campus building that will bear the name of the family of the donors.
Pampered Chef Profits No Longer Fund Abortion Industry (7/17/2003)
Berkshire Hathaway terminates its shareholder-designated contributions program (July 3, 2003)
Buffett Kills Berkshire Charities - by Bill Mann (July 7, 2003)
Closing Down Buffett’s Buffet - Berkshire Hathaway Ends Innovative Program of Shareholder-Designated Donations (Capital Research Center January 2004)
Nothing Charitable About Giving In - By Roger Lowenstein (Washington Post July 20, 2003)
Uncommon Sense: Warren Buffett's Immutable Universe - By Platinum Capital Limited
13F SEC Confidential Treatment Request Requirements
The Other Berkshire: Buffett's company is a big insurer, and that business is
looking up - By Andrew Bary (Barron's 11/6/2000)
AGREEMENT AND PLAN OF MERGER:
BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC. AND INTERNATIONAL DAIRY QUEEN, INC. (10/21/1997)
Buffett Battles His Reputation in Search of More Acquisitions (8/8/2003)
Buffett loses battle over ‘quiet’ holding (8/22/2003)
Warren Buffett's Still-Golden Touch The wizard of Omaha's magic is alive and well; amazingly, Berkshire Hathaway's best days might still lie ahead By Andrew Bary (8/11/2003)
Pass the Coke! In a wide-ranging interview last week at Berkshire's Omaha, Neb., headquarters, Buffett said that he's "not finding anything" in the stock market and isn't enamored of Treasury bonds or junk debt.
However, the 73-year-old CEO sounded upbeat on the outlook for his own company, whose stock has appreciated little this year despite stronger earnings and a rising book value. (By Andrew Bary Barron's 10/27/ 2003)
Buffett is on hand for plant's first dig MidAmerican Energy is key to future investment in utilities, says Omaha billionaire (DesMoines Register 9/10/2003)
Forget Storms, Sharks, Cars, and Even the “Real Thing”: At Berkshire Hathaway Cash is King! (Oak Value Fund June 2003)
Buffett: Right Again? His acquisition of insurer General Re is starting to look like it made sense (BW Online 3/4/2002)
The Sage Seizes on Energy's Distress - Warren Buffett is scooping up prime assets at a discount (BW Online August 26, 2002)
The House That Buffett Built - Berkshire Hathaway an insurance company? It's the new Home Depot (Money Magazine 8/2003)
The Ballad of Clayton Homes Berkshire Hathaway's $1.7 billion acquisition of a mobile-home company seemed like a perfect match. Then shareholders got a look, and a folksy tale suddenly turned ugly. (Fast Company: Issue 78 January 2004)
Back on course Clayton homes sailing smoothly again with son of founder at the helm (KnoxNews.com 2/1/2004)
Buffett issued new stock rather than split - Jeff O'Quinn Triangle Business Journal December 27, 1996
Following Buffett Down - Funds that own big slugs of Berkshire Hathaway are having a rough year. (Money Magazine December 1999 Vol. 28 No. 12)
Buffett on White Mountains - Bill Mann July 1, 2004
Warren Buffett: World's Greatest Sandbagger (Bill Mann March 8, 2004)
Berkshire Should Pay A Dividend (Forbes 3/9/2004)
General Re 2003 Annual Report
RULE 62 (MINIMUM PRICE VARIATIONS) The Securities and Exchange Commission has approved an amendment to Rule 62 to provide that the minimum price variation for stocks trading at price of $100,000 or greater will be ten cents which will be shown as .1. For securities below that price, the current minimum price variation of one ($.01) will continue to be in effect.
Why I'm not buying the U.S. dollar - America's growing trade deficit is selling the nation out from under us. Here's a way to fix the problem -- and we need to do it now. By Warren E. Buffett (FORTUNE Oct. 26, 2003)
Buffett Insurance Deals Warrant Spitzer Scrutiny - If Eliot Spitzer really wants to clean up the insurance industry, he should look into an insurance-like product that has been used again and again to cook companies' books. (TheStreet.com 10/21/2004)
Gen Re Recent Publications
Readers love and hate Geico ads (SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER 9/16/ 2004)
Bill Gates letter of resignation from the ICOS board of directors. - Gates joins board of directors at Berkshire Hathaway. (SEC January 4, 2005)
A Finger on the Pulse of Berkshire Hathaway and Warren Buffett - Throughout the spring, the snowballing financial scandal at insurance giant American International Group has put the spotlight on the firm's partner in the improper deal, General Re Corp. Could the damage extend to Gen Re's owner, Berkshire Hathaway Inc. and its legendary chief, Warren Buffett? (Wharton)
Warren Buffett's Invisible Empire - Surprise! He controls the country's second-largest realty network, HomeServices (BW Online 5/30/2005)
Berkshire Hathaway's Holdings Berkshire's 13F's. (Losch Management Company)
Video Clip: Berkshire Annual Meeting 2005
Warren Buffett Entrapped By Success (Forbes Martin T. Sosnoff, 12.21.05)
