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Posted 2 days ago
Editor s Note: We will, as promised, soon conclude What We Learned Writing A Book About Warren Buffett in these virtual pages. This morning s headline in our online Wall Street Journal, howe
Posted 3 days ago
We here at NotMakingThisUp will soon conclude our latest journey to Omaha (i.e. the no-longer-quite-so-recent Berkshire special stock-split meeting).With this concluding chapter we will also initiate
Posted 1 week ago
The second-to-last question of the day is asked, and it s about Burlington Northern. Are you also purchasing rights of ways and do they have other purposes? a shareholder wants to know.He is, n
Posted 2 weeks ago
What is the expected return on capital from Burlington? asks the shareholder from Hamburg, Germany. And if you can t buy more railroads would you expand into shipping? As Warren Buffett l
Posted 4 weeks ago
The question Buffett s been asked is simple: What s the difference between Berkshire using undervalued stock to buy Burlington Northern, and Kraft using undervalued stock to buy Cadbury? It
Posted 4 weeks ago
Buffett runs the meeting briskly and efficiently and within minutes of his first appearing on stage we reach the guts of the thing, when he offers a motion to approve the 50-for-1 stock split and el
Posted 5 weeks ago
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 mee
Posted 6 weeks ago
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 enterin
Posted 7 weeks ago
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 particul
Posted 8 weeks ago
We ve been radio silent here at NotMakingThisUp, and for what we hope will prove good reasons.The first is that for the past week your editor has been in conference meetings at Ground Zero of Health
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