2 Months Ago, Jeff Matthews(noreply@blogger.com) from Jeff Matthews Is Not Making This Up says (in Think For Yourself Part II—Goldman 8, Public Zero…The Lesson of Bare Escentuals) The second reason for the radio silence is we’re gearing up to participate in Bloomberg Television’s coverage of the mini-Berkshire Hathaway shareholder meeting next week, at which Berkshire shareholders will be voting to do something Warren Buffett swore would never happen under h...

3 Months Ago, Jeff Matthews(noreply@blogger.com) from Jeff Matthews Is Not Making This Up says (in Opinion: HarperCollins & Friends: In the Footsteps of Dinosaurs) And indeed it did—although certainly nothing like the English version of our journey to the heart of Berkshire Hathaway.
Last year alone, 275,000 new books were published in the United States alone. (That’s 5,288 a week, for those of you who think you might want to write a book some day.)

7 Months Ago, Jeff Matthews(noreply@blogger.com) from Jeff Matthews Is Not Making This Up says (in The Opportunity Cost of Thinking like Everyone Else) Now, if Lubrizol management had decided to “get back into a share repurchase mode” during the early March 2009 market panic, with its stock trading briefly at $25 a share, just below 4.5-times trailing EBITDA, we’d be nominating Lubrizol’s Treasurer for a spot in the Warren Buffett panth...

8 Months Ago, Jeff Matthews(noreply@blogger.com) from Jeff Matthews Is Not Making This Up says (in Nobel Freakonomics, Part III: Playing the Race Card—Must We?) So if, by pretending to be a disappointed fan, our would-be Matalin/Carville was hoping to stop further writing in these virtual pages on Paul Krugman, healthcare reform, Terminal 4 at JFK, Warren Buffett or even the Arctic Monkeys, he will be sorely disappointed.

9 Months Ago, Jeff Matthews(noreply@blogger.com) from Jeff Matthews Is Not Making This Up says (in The Oracle Speaks; William Blair Listens) Warren Buffett:

—Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Meeting, May 2, 2009

So Andrew Ross Sorkin asked, and Warren Buffett responded to, one of the better questions asked at this year’s Berkshire Hathaway shareholder meeting.

The reason? “News of Buffett Sale.”

10 Months Ago, Jeff Matthews(noreply@blogger.com) from Jeff Matthews Is Not Making This Up says (in ‘Woodstock for Capitalists’ Concluded: “The Edge of Death” and Other Matters) Warren Buffett loved his Triple-A credit rating.

Here’s how Buffett explained it:

One Industry Not to Expect Warren Buffett to Buy Into

For Buffett and Munger not to know a lot about a business…well, that’s one business not to expect Buffett and Munger to buy into any time soon.

And Jeff Matthews(noreply@blogger.com) from Jeff Matthews Is Not Making This Up says (in “Woodstock” Part 6: One Last, Good Question Asked; One Put-Down Given; and One Mystery Revealed) The irony was supreme, given that Sears happens to be the Berkshire-like investment vehicle for Sears Chairman and hedge fund ace Eddie Lampert, …without, of course, the good businesses, clean balance sheet, and 44 year track record of Berkshire and its Chairman and former hedge fund a...

11 Months Ago, Jeff Matthews(noreply@blogger.com) from Jeff Matthews Is Not Making This Up says (in Breaking a Rule for Peter Buffett, and We Hope Neil Young Doesn't Mind) Warren Buffett’s son, Peter, will be returning to his hometown for an evening of ‘Concert and Conversation’ at The Rose theater. All proceeds from ticket sales are going toward the Omaha-based foundation, Kent Bellows Studio and Center for the Visual Arts.

13 Months Ago, Jeff Matthews(noreply@blogger.com) from Jeff Matthews Is Not Making This Up says (in Top Ten Questions We’d Like to Hear Warren Buffett Asked at the Berkshire Annual Meeting) Well, Warren agrees with us!
In our book, “Pilgrimage to Warren Buffett’s Omaha,” we pointed out that Berkshire Hathaway’s annual shareholder meeting is no longer mainly about Berkshire Hathaway.
And Buffett, it turns out, agrees.

14 Months Ago, Jeff Matthews(noreply@blogger.com) from Jeff Matthews Is Not Making This Up says (in Stimulus Part II: Fiscal Katrina on Its Way…Warren Buffett for Spending Czar?) Today, I signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act into law.

Unless, however, that “team of managers” consists of two people, Berkshire Hathaway Chairman Warren Buffett and his equally penurious Vice Chairman, Charlie Munger, well, good luck with that, as they say.

And Jeff Matthews(noreply@blogger.com) from Jeff Matthews Is Not Making This Up says (in Stimulus Plan Part I: What Would Sears Do?) We have written on these virtual pages, and in a chapter titled “What Would Warren Do?” in “Pilgrimage to Warren Buffett’s Omaha,” about the fact that most of the questions asked by shareholders at Berkshire Hathaway’s famous shareholder meeting—the “Woodstock for Capitalists” of wh...

17 Months Ago, Jeff Matthews(noreply@blogger.com) from Jeff Matthews Is Not Making This Up says (in Is Buffett Worried? Part II: “It’s Not Personal, Sonny.”) Finally, Berkshire Looks Undervalued
By ANDREW BARY

The culprit in Berkshire Hathaway’s recent fall from grace—at least in the credit default swap market—may just be the very firm Warren Buffett himself invested in just two months ago.

That firm would be Goldman Sachs.

And Jeff Matthews(noreply@blogger.com) from Jeff Matthews Is Not Making This Up says (in Jamie Dimon for Treasury?) Now, this idea actually has a shot—Dimon has been giving advice to Obama himself; consequently, Dimon's name has been tossed around as a candidate for Treasury, along with one even bigger name: Warren Buffett.

Now, my dog Charles will be Treasury Secretary before Warren Buffett.