Warren Buffett

Editorial: Buffett Makes Fools of the Experts

The Editors · February 27, 2018 10:25 am

A cyclist passes in front of Liebman's store on Main Street in New Rochelle, N.Y. The leaders of small and mid-size companies are increasingly optimistic about the state of the U.S. economy and their own abilities to increase sales, according to a new survey by JPMorgan Chase.

Economic recovery reaches Main Street payrolls

James Langford · February 27, 2018 5:01 am

United airplanes sit outside the company's hangar at Newark Liberty International Airport. Investing giant Berkshire Hathaway owns stakes in that airline and its three biggest U.S. competitors with a combined value of $10.2 billion. (Timothy Fadek/Bloomberg)

Warren Buffett’s own private airline? Billionaire investor won’t ‘rule it out’

James Langford · February 26, 2018 11:31 pm

Warren Buffett talks with reporters before Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting in Omaha, Neb., in May 2017. The company has a war chest of about $116 billion to fund dealmaking this year. (Daniel Acker/Bloomberg)

Don’t thank Warren Buffett for Berkshire Hathaway’s earnings windfall

James Langford · February 24, 2018 2:57 pm

Both the SEC and the commodities-trading commission "are trying to sharply the curb the market in the United States for digital currencies," Jaret Seiberg, an analyst with Cowen Washington Research Group, said in a report.

Why bitcoin conjures dot-com ghosts, and worse, for regulators

James Langford · February 6, 2018 5:01 am

Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett, and Jamie Dimon hold a fair concentration of financial power. (Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP)

Beltway Confidential

Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, JPMorgan Chase: If they can’t fix healthcare, who the heck can?

Tim Worstall · January 31, 2018 7:40 pm

There are few details as to what exactly the joint venture will focus on. A statement Tuesday only said that the companies would look at ways technology can give employees a simple and cheap way to get good healthcare. (AP)

Amazon-Berkshire-JPMorgan venture sends health stocks tumbling

Robert King · January 30, 2018 6:30 pm

Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway's chairman and CEO; Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO; and Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan Chase chairman and CEO; are teaming up to create a healthcare company that is "free from profit-making incentives and constraints." (AP Photos)

Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett, JPMorgan starting healthcare company

Kimberly Leonard · January 30, 2018 1:32 pm

Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett (pictured above) has named two new successors: Ajit Jain, who heads Berkshire's reinsurance operations, and Gregory Abel, who runs Berkshire Hathaway Energy. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

Billionaire Warren Buffett names two potential heirs to Berkshire CEO role

James Langford · January 10, 2018 7:27 pm

Bitcoin's value dipped slightly on Wednesday afternoon, according to tracking service Coindesk, paring 12 months of gains that had taken its value to $14,855 as both the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the CBOE Futures Exchange offered futures contracts in it. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

The ‘Oracle of Omaha’ delivers an ominous warning about bitcoin

James Langford · January 10, 2018 3:19 pm

An Unjust Tax Is an Unjust Tax

An Unjust Tax Is an Unjust Tax

The Editors · October 11, 2017 8:55 am

Packages riding on a belt are scanned at the Amazon Fulfillment center in Robbinsville Township, N.J., Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2017. It's rumored that Amazon has plans to move into the prescription drug market. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Beltway Confidential

Amazon’s prescription drug plans could overwhelm Warren Buffet’s moat

Tim Worstall · October 9, 2017 2:20 pm