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- What Else Has Buffett Been Buying? [view article]
- Replacement Candidates for David Merkel's Portfolio: From AA to ZZ [view article]
- Board and Executive Compensation in S&P 500 [view article]
- Warren Buffett Accumulates NRG Energy, Ingersoll-Rand and Union Pacific [view article]
- Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
- Buffett's Berkshire Holdings Doing Well in Q3 [view article]
- Ready to Rally - Cramer's Mad Money (6/13/08) [view article]
- Wednesday Options Update: CHK, MER, RIGL, MYL, HRS, IR, LIZ [view article]
- S&P 500's Best and Worst Net Income Change [view article]
- Industrials: The New Safe Haven for Investors [view article]
- It's All about Energy - Cramer's Mad Money (6/11/08) [view article]
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- Board and Executive Compensation in S&P 500
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Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
Healthcare and legacy costs are partially to blame, but the UAW is, in my opinion, more of the culprit. I worked for Ford and experienced the ridiculousness of all of the red tape first hand. The UAW is nothing more than a leech. From the union reps who do nothimg more than walk the floor and shake hands, to the stupid rules pertaining to job classification, unions are a big reason why AMerican car makers are struggling. Hell, in my plant (Sterling Heights plant on Mound road for Ford) we had a guy making over 100k a year and he was a damn floor cleaner!On Aug 01 07:24 PM brian58 wrote:
> It isn't the unions that has caused the downfall of GM. It is healthcare
> costs for retirees. GM can compete against Toyota. It cannot compete
> against Japan. If we had universal health care coverage in this country
> and American companies could get out of having to offer healthcare
> benefits to it's employees then GM would be in better shape. And
> before someone starts screaming about socialized medicine let me
> state a few observations. Healthcare is not free. It costs money
> to provide good healthcare and money is a finite resource. Everyone
> has an obligation to take care of themselves by eating right, exercising
> and not smoking. (Tobacco companies use to get government subsidies,
> why shouldn't lung cancer patients) But every American citizen has
> a right to decent healthcare. One of the things that made America
> great was the availability of a free education to everyone, just
> not for the rich. Modern medical technology is expensive. Some CEO
> shouldn't get rich by saying no to the insurance company saying no
> to my medical care. Why would you want to be part of a society that
> put greed above the well being of it's citizens regardless of economic
> class. Let's have compassionate capitalism in America. Money isn't
> isn't evil but the love of money is or so they say. Reply
Warren Buffett Accumulates NRG Energy, Ingersoll-Rand and Union Pacific [view article]
The author got the facts so wrong in this article that it should be deleted as not to mislead more people. ReplyWarren Buffett Accumulates NRG Energy, Ingersoll-Rand and Union Pacific [view article]
Rong,The price of Berkshire stock carries a substantial premium over the price of the stock portfolio it holds. This premium may or may not be justified; Buffett himself prefers buying shares of IR and NRG to buying back shares of BRK, and for a good reason too: he doesn't consider the price of BRK shares to be a bargain, unlike that of IR and NRG.
Berkshire is not a mutual fund or an ETF. If the primary insurance and reinsurance businesses of Berkshire falter, an investor may do much better by holding KO, PG, WFC, AXP and the other stocks in the portfolio than by owning shares of BRK.
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Buffett's Berkshire Holdings Doing Well in Q3 [view article]
this ReplyWarren Buffett Accumulates NRG Energy, Ingersoll-Rand and Union Pacific [view article]
Berkshire also made a confidential filing with the SEC regarding its stake COP, as reported by Reuters.The SEC regularly lets Buffett delay disclosing some of his investing activity so others cannot copy him.
So you're not accurate by saying he reduced his stake to 0 in cop. Reply
Warren Buffett Accumulates NRG Energy, Ingersoll-Rand and Union Pacific [view article]
RonB, Thank you for your observation and post. A question that almost continually occupies my underdeveloped, long A & B mind is: Instead of concerning them selves with what Warren has done or is going to do, why don't they just join him? ReplyWarren Buffett Accumulates NRG Energy, Ingersoll-Rand and Union Pacific [view article]
Whoever wrote this doesn't do much homework. Buffett did not add to his Union Pacific holdings. The number of sharees doubled because the stock split 2 for 1 in May. ReplyReady to Rally - Cramer's Mad Money (6/13/08) [view article]
Sun Hydraulics (SNHY) is trading at $32 which is $10 down from it's 3 month high and their latest earnings report on Aug 5th beat the estimate by 7%. Is is time to revisit SNHY? This seems like a good entry point. Reply2020
Replacement Candidates for David Merkel's Portfolio: From AA to ZZ [view article]
This looks like a dartboard. Pick 3 sector ETFs, 3 little followed stocksand sleep better at night. Reply
Wednesday Options Update: CHK, MER, RIGL, MYL, HRS, IR, LIZ [view article]
Any word on when the expiration of those calls are? There's been quite a bit of activity on the August calls...doesn't make much sense to me since they expire in 8 days, but maybe it's some kind of automated computerized hedging strategy. ReplyBoard and Executive Compensation in S&P 500 [view article]
its all a self serving scam.the new word should be "suckerholder&quo... stockholder.the ceo's & bod's are just selfserving & nobody mentions the suckerholder in the boardroom. pay should only be by dividend fro shares bought by management & bod's & no options.that would straighten things out real quick.utopia? ReplyBoard and Executive Compensation in S&P 500 [view article]
Jackooo...you are exactly correct. The companies send out proxies, etc., as a "feel good" exercise, not something that will result in any change of directors, management, etc. The mutual funds are not doing their jobs when they simply go along to get along with extreme compensation packages being set up by compensation committees. Any time a compny is losing money badly, but gives top executives major pay raises, something is wrong inside the management of the companies. ReplyBoard and Executive Compensation in S&P 500 [view article]
Years ago when it became so obvious to me that boards of directors were nothing more than good old boys clubs, rubber stamps for corporate executives and every bit as greedy, I began to look in the proxy for the identities of the Compensation Committee. Every proxy I have voted since I have withheld my vote for those committee members and have encouraged others to do the same. May never have an affect but at least its something I can do to express my dissatisfaction... ReplyBoard and Executive Compensation in S&P 500 [view article]
I have both T and CMCSA. I notice their executive teams are paid the most. That's a shame from these two losers.The SEC can make up lots more rules & I can vote against the board but unless the mutual fund companies vote their shares against the boards, we individual share holders might as well forget proxy voting.
I cannot understand why the funds don't take the reigns? It is their clients that are losing money. It is true that most of the clients are dumb and lazy regarding financial savy but gezz. You would think the funds would do something, no?? Reply
Board and Executive Compensation in S&P 500 [view article]
giving the people on the board hefty 'compensation' really amounts to a bribe by the top execs to keep the big exec $ coming, no matter what. Warren Buffet does it right, when it comes to this. good article. thank you. Reply