And the rest of the BRKA and BRKB shareholders welcome the bump up in their shares.
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By contrast, Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway (nyse: BRKA - news - people ) shares have slipped slightly.
Spitzer's sleuths descended on one set of transactions in particular, involving AIG and Berkshire Hathaway (nyse: BRKA - news - people )'s General Re subsidiary.
Since last August shares of Berkshire Hathaway (nyse: BRKA - news - people ) have risen 18%, and Buffett soared past friend and bridge partner Bill Gates.
It seemed risky, kitschy and even a bit avant guard (or as avant guard as characters created for Berkshire Hathaway (nyse: BRKA - news - people ) can be, anyway).
If not, regulators would have to resort to the "good bank, bad bank" split of the bond insurers, as proposed Tuesday by Berkshire Hathaway 's (nyse: BRKA - news - people ) Warren Buffett.
But whether the prime-time gig will prove advantageous for the Berkshire Hathaway (nyse: BRKA - news - people ) brand will depend on both the direction of the story and the success of the show.
The runaway winner in that department was the home base of Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway (nyse: BRKA - news - people )--Nebraska--where his friends and neighbors, early investors in his company, made substantial fortunes through the years.
Berkshire Hathaway (nyse: BRKA - news - people ), which is controlled by billionaire investor Warren Buffett and owns reinsurance giant General Re , has also said it will have claims but declined to estimate their extent.
Once the IRS caved, lawyers, accountants, plane brokers and fractional ownership companies like Berkshire Hathaway 's (nyse: BRKa - news - people ) NetJets actively promoted the tax advantages of buying your own company plane--or plane share.
Warren Buffett, chairman and top shareholder of Berkshire Hathaway (nyse: BRKa - news - people ), for one, has criticized this system, saying capital gains on stocks held for less than a year should be taxed at 100%.
Over the years, Buffett became a champion of value investing, took over Salomon Brothers following the trading scandals in the late 1980s, and built his holding company, Berkshire Hathaway (nyse: BRKA - news - people ), into a behemoth.
On Thursday, Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway (nyse: BRKA - news - people ) announced it took a 132.4 million stake in Kraft Foods (nyse: KFT - news - people ), making Berkshire the largest single shareholder.
Warren Buffett 's investment firm, Berkshire Hathaway (nyse: BRKa - news - people), and Leucadia International (nyse: LUK - news - people) will bail out embattled finance company Finova Group (nyse: FNV - news - people).
Berkshire Hathaway (nyse: BRKA - news - people ) jumped in the market in December and is seeking licenses to insure bond issues in all 50 states, and a spokesman for the insurance regulator said earlier this month that they were talking to other interested companies.
Treasury has provided few specific details about its conference, which technically kicked off Monday night with a dinner that included remarks by Vice President Dick Cheney, once the chairman of Halliburton (nyse: HAL - news - people ), and Warren Buffett, chairman of Berkshire Hathaway (nyse: BRKA - news - people ).
In his ruling, Judge Harry A. Hanna said lawyers with the firm deliberately misled him by saying they stood by filings with bankruptcy trusts established by Johns Mansville, now a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway (nyse: BRKA - news - people ), and a number of other firms that incorrectly stated Kananian had worked in trades that exposed him to their products.
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