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Berkshire Profit Falls 12% on Buffett's Currency Bet (Update3) May 6, 2005 21:03 EDT

"Using a large suite of climate model experiments, Everyone has a computer and everyone is a quant. No matter the news, a reporter has a quant on speed dial. Every crisis has a model, an agenda, a lobbyist with a grant with a vote behind it. Stay tuned tomorrow for a large suite of...

Sell Brka. Stay tuned... "....equity analyst Meyer Shields of Stifel Nicolaus slapped the dreaded sell on Warren Buffett’s baby Thursday, citing economic weakness and the potential “double whammy” that the recent stock market correction might mean for Berkshire’s...

As you can tell this is pretty much a custom job. Had a little trouble getting the zirconia's to stick.

This label on this loaf of bread says that two slices contain as much calcium as a glass of milk, now I just need to find out which ones.

Why don't the homeless vets re-enlist. Problem solved.

------------------------ I have heard so many complaints about this over the last several years as well as the last several days. People being stopped 2,3,4,5,6, and even 7 times over the course of a weekend by various police agencies while simply enjoying their boat with their families and...

I took my girlfriend to dinner, and she laughed so hard at one of my jokes that she dropped her tray.

I don't want to tell you how much insurance I carry with the Prudential, but all I can say is: when I go, they go too.:cool:

I went to a meeting for premature ejaculators. I left early.

This may be lame but suppose France started teaching German in all of it's schools. Everywhere you went in France you'd have two points of information. One in French, then right alongside, German. Frankly if I was French, I'd be worried. Do any countries do this, except us? Embrace a...

I worked for the PO for a little while (great job, btw, I only wanted part time but hey, "I'm good" and they loved me, they kept scheduling me 6 days a week, pfftttt not my idea of part time). Anyways, guys told me a story about a carrier who used to keep a thermometer in his delivery...

Yo, I invented "pizza in a cup". Cook up your pie and put it in a blender and serve with a straw. Got the idea one day after I drank too much and puked up a couple slices of sausage and pepporoni.

Knock knock Who's there? Alzheimers Who's there?

Probably the only people ever laid off in a union shop is management.

Good news: I passed my ethics exam. Of course I've cheated. Now for the last question on the final exam; How do you plan to make a living with a philosophy degree?

Perhaps a coefficient could be created using profits, market cap, or some other metric and this coefficient could be used to determine how many employees the Apple's, Google's, and Exxon's of the world would have add. -------------------------------- One metric is labor costs as a % of...

If Tim or Ben or Obama came out and said "well the economy is in the crapper, we don't know how long it's going to be in the crapper, and we haven't a clue to get it out of the crapper" can you imagine the terror and panic that would race through the world financial markets...

I was on my way to the bathroom and overhead Tim talking on the phone about C, he said "a lot of the hedging didn’t work.” He's probably right about this one too. :D j/k

if one is successful in markets, he/she probably would not be popular in financial information, and might probably even be unpopular. Goldman Sachs An argument would be that they are popular because they are wrong. It's graduation day @ Bedford Stuyvesant High School, and the kids...