Tag Archive 'Warren Buffett'

My favorite proposal for helping financial institutions

I do believe we should be doing something as a nation, through our government, to avoid the not insignificant chance of a total financial meltdown. I have seen several things proposed that I find interesting, and I will get into them and other longer term issues in coming days. I had hoped to address this [...]

Buffett’s Imperfections

The Oracle of Omaha is human, we can all take some comfort in that. More here and here.

Quote of the Day

“As a group, lemmings have a rotten image, but no individual lemming has ever received bad press.” -Warren E. BuffettPara obter Seu 100 & Free marcador: toques reais.Variationen von online poker.

A timely point to remember

In the insurance business, there is no statute of limitation on stupidity.
-Warren Buffett
If only the monolines (that survive) credit default swap investors, and others could keep this in mind going forward. Risk has to be priced not on the basis of the current environment, but on what that environment might be down the road. In [...]

Catching up on some neglected reading

Occasionally I look at my list of reads and realize I haven’t been someplace in quite a while, so early this morning I headed over to Jeff Matthews place to rectify that issue. Full of great stuff, but I want to highlight two pieces.
First, Jeff tackles the subject of stock buybacks and the piece echoes [...]