There is some gamesmanship going on as we enter the cozy, wood-floored Peter Kiewit concert hall here in downtown Omaha.Of course, it’s nothing like what goes on at the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting. At that “Woodstock for Capitalists,” as...
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The Mini-Meeting: January 20, 2010, 8:30 a.m.The most surprising thing about this “mini” Berkshire Hathaway shareholder meeting is the intimacy.Leaving a raw winter’s morning outside and entering the warm confines of downtown Omaha’s Holland Pe...
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Well, Starbucks finally has its act together, if Wednesday’s earnings release is any indication.At least, its financial act.Starbucks’ environmental act still leaves a lot to be desired—particularly here in the U.S., where getting a Starbucks cof...
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We’ve been radio silent here at NotMakingThisUp the last week or so, for what we hope will prove good reasons.The first reason is that for the past week your editor has been in conference meetings at Ground Zero of Healthcare Reform.Now, Ground ...
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It was a cool Florida evening one year ago next month when your editor joined a distinguished investment strategist, familiar from near-constant CNBC exposure, and a third market observer on a makeshift stage in the dining room of a country club to dis...
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Editor’s Note: Your editor strongly advises swallowing your coffee before reading this virtual column and risk spitting out that coffee. As always, we are not making this up.The following poem, which was written under the pen name “Blogger Bob,”...
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Editor’s Note:Back by popular demand, what follows is our year-end sampling of the Christmas songs playing incessantly on a radio station near you, and it demands from your editor only a few updates this holiday season.For starters, we have not...
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Dec. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Meredith Whitney, the analyst known for correctly predicting Citigroup Inc.’s dividend cut last year, reduced earnings estimates for Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Morgan Stanley through 2011….If it’s Thursday, it must be tim...
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“I’ve got this wonderful idea: we’re going to chop down some trees up in Canada and we’re going to ship them to a paper mill…and then we’ll ship that down to some newspaper and we’ll have a whole bunch of people staying up all night writ...
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Editor’s Note:We had the opportunity to interview author Alice Schroeder as the paperbook version of her best-selling, and eye-opening, "The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life" was hitting stores. We emailed more than a dozen questions...
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