Billionaires Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger will spend most of Saturday at Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting dispensing sage advice on finance, the recession and life, and roughly 35,000 people are expected to pack an arena and overflow rooms at a nearby hotel to listen. ...more

April 30, 2009

The meltdown of global financial markets slashed the ranks of the world's billionaires by 30 percent in 2008, Forbes magazine reports in its annual tally of the planet's richest people. ...more

March 14, 2009

The property insurance merry-go-round continues as Florida's leaders struggle to balance the cost of homeownership against financial pressures on the state. ...more

March 11, 2009

Billionaire Warren Buffett said unemployment likely will climb much higher, depending on how effective the nation's policies are, but he remains optimistic about the long run. ...more

March 10, 2009

At a time when every rule of investing has been turned on its head, there is apparently one constant: The renowned investor Warren E. Buffett has kept his sense of humor and his gift for plainspoken investment wisdom. ...more

March 1, 2009

For years, prosaic consumer products sought to puff up their appeal by boasting they contained "secret" ingredients that improved their performance. Colgate toothpaste had Gardol, Dial soap had AT-7 and Certs breath mints had Retsyn. ...more

February 21, 2009

Conservatives now have an opportunity to applaud Democratic proposals when they make sense. ...more

November 12, 2008

They don't want to pay for other people's mistakes. The consensus among local men and women on the street is that the taxpayers should not "bail out" those chief executives who they think have caused the plummeting Dow Jones Industrial Average and mortgage crisis. ...more

September 26, 2008

Goldman Sachs Group, seeking to improve not only its balance sheet but its standing with investors, has undertaken a huge capital-raising program that includes an investment of at least $5 billion from Warren Buffett and a common stock offering for another $5 billion. ...more

September 25, 2008

The nation's largest wholesale power seller, Constellation Energy Group, whose stock has collapsed amid worries about liquidity and accounting issues, agreed on Thursday to be bought by a unit of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. for $4.7 billion. ...more

September 19, 2008