OMAHA, NE - Well, it's here: Warren Buffett's annual letter to shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway. While you can read for yourselves Mr. Buffett's sober predictions of the economy being "in shambles throughout 2009 - and, for that matter, probably well beyond," job seekers can learn something about ...

The Much Anticipated Annual Letter From Warren Buffet and Berkshire Hathaway - It Was A Rough Year To read the full report click here. For media reaction and the headlines that are typically raves, this year is a little different. To view some of these headlines click here . Some Of The Points Made ...

This is getting tedious! We were bearish going into the week but not this bearish. It is unusual though that we have a weekly wrap-up with nothing but negative plays as we did last week but there was nothing very positive in the outlook after the action of the week of the 16th through the 20th, pict...

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) has just released its 2008 annual report, along with the ever-important letter to shareholders from the Oracle of Omaha, Warren Buffett.  2008 was more than a rough year.  You have to read into Buffett’s comments to get the full effect.  We are sorry to...

Tim Newman, Campaigns Assistant, International Labor Rights Forum We have written several blog posts here about Russell's violations of the right to union organizing in Honduras.  Because of its abuses in Honduras, Russell ended up on ILRF's list of corporations that violate freedom of association....

Filed under: Management, Financial Crisis ClusterStock has put together a countdown of the biggest financial losers of 2008. The results aren't too surprising: Executives at big banks with large stock holdings lost huge chunks of their fortunes. Former Citigroup (NYSE: C) head Sandy Weill saw his ne...

Contrary to business folk lore and popular opinion, you don't always have to cut in tough times.  Often, you need to cut in some areas and add in others.  It's about return on investment.  The key areas to look at first are your marketing programs, your people, and your products.  The smart comp...

When one of my relatives was in their 30's, they read a book on weight loss that said if you want to get “skinny�, then do what “skinny people� do. At the time, I was very skinny. So they followed me around for a month and ate when I ate, at the amount that I ate and stopped eating when I st...

Filed under: Rants and raves, Competitive strategy, Microsoft (MSFT), Yahoo! (YHOO), Cisco Systems (CSCO), General Motors (GM), Sirius Satellite Radio (SIRI), Citigroup Inc. (C), Bank of America (BAC), Nucor Corp (NUE), Recession Almost two years ago I posted a downbeat opinion about a merger that w...

Though BYD Auto made a big show of their own fleet of electric vehicles, their hard-to-believe battery technology is more likely to end up in your driveway under the hood of a domestic. The "ferrous oxide" battery technology developed by BYD, if it lives up to their own somewhat fantastic claims of ...