Buffett vents on financial fat cats

Warren Buffett has an elegant solution for the thorny problem of too-big-to-fail banks: Put the bankers’ bank accounts on the line.

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Market for hard-to-sell assets gets a big boost

The charity foundation of Li Ka-shing, Hong Kong’s richest man, and Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund said Tuesday they had invested $15 million in SecondMarket. You may not have heard of this fast-growing New York-based company, but it’s created new exchanges where companies and investors can sell assets they might otherwise have had trouble unloading.

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Home prices fall another 2.5%

Home prices fell just 2.5% during the last three month of 2009 compared with the fourth quarter of 2008, according to a closely watched gauge of home price movement.

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Berkshire’s big day: $24 billion in trading

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway got a rousing introduction to the S&P 500 this month — though it wasn’t quite the most lavish ever.

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Building a better car battery

Since Nissan began developing lithium-ion batteries in 1992, it has increased their power density 1,100% and driven prices down to 1/16 of their old levels.

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Boards of disasters

In the interest of full disclosure, I should say that John Gillespie, co-author (with David Zweig) of Money for Nothing: How the Failure of Corporate Boards Is Ruining American Business and Costing Us Trillions, is a friend of mine.

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The $61 billion man

In an era of specialization, world allocation funds take on a challenge that verges on hubris: All it requires is deep expertise in stocks, bonds, and other securities in virtually every market on the face of the earth.

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Dodge CEO: "We cannot screw it up this time"

During the past decade, Ralph Gilles helped create some of Chrysler’s most successful models: the 300C Sedan, the Dodge Magnum, and the redesigned Dodge Charger. But soon after the industry wunderkind became the company’s design chief, Chrysler and America’s auto industry collapsed.

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Dodge CEO: "We cannot screw it up this time"

The catchall fraud law that catches too much

When it comes to fighting white-collar crime, the sharpest arrow in the federal prosecutor’s quiver is a law most nonlawyers have never heard of, known as the “honest-services fraud” law.

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Board pay: Unchecked and out of hand

Here’s a strong opinion right upfront: High pay for outside directors of corporations guts the whole idea of these representatives of the shareholders making independent judgments. How does a board member challenge a CEO when the director is being paid oversize amounts likely to be important to his or her lifestyle?

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