Maureen Farrell

1 week ago | rethinking65.com | Maureen Farrell

Celebrity endorsements, companies with no clear plans, investors left feeling burned: The pandemic-era boom in risky investments called SPACs was an investment craze many would surely like to forget. Well, it’s back. There has been a flurry of SPAC deals announced in the past month, and the most sought-after ones involve people in President Donald Trump’s orbit or investments close to his heart. One is being pitched by key executives from Trump Media & Technology Group.

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Andrew Ross Sorkin |Edmund Lee |Bernhard Warner |Sarah Kessler |Lauren Hirsch |Maureen Farrell

The "sell America" trade is back in focus on Monday. Investors are bracing for a triple threat of an inflationary trade war, President Trump's tax cut plan swelling the federal deficit, and fallout from Moody's cutting America's triple-A credit rating. That adds pressure on the White House to make trade deals, and on House Speaker Mike Johnson to win over Republican fiscal hawks to make Trump's big campaign vow - permanent tax cuts - a reality.

3 weeks ago | rethinking65.com | Maureen Farrell

Warren Buffett’s approach to investing is deceptively simple. “Forget what you know about buying fair businesses at wonderful prices; instead, buy wonderful businesses at fair prices,” he once wrote to shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway, his business conglomerate. This method — known as value investing — had existed long before Buffett, now 94, began his career. But no one did it as well — or for as long — as he did.

1 month ago | straitstimes.com | Maureen Farrell |Lauren Hirsch

NEW YORK - As Warren Buffett, 94, called an end to his historic run atop Berkshire Hathaway, Wall Street luminaries rushed to praise the man whose extraordinary investment career spanned more than 80 years (he bought his first shares when he was 11). The famed investor delivered a more than 5,500,000 per cent return on Berkshire’s stock as he turned a once-failing textile firm into the most valuable company in the world that isn’t either a tech giant or state oil producer.

1 month ago | ourcommunitynow.com | Maureen Farrell |Lauren Hirsch

Share Warren E. Buffett’s approach to investing is deceptively simple.“Forget what you know about buying fair businesses at wonderful prices; instead, buy wonderful businesses at fair prices,” he once wrote to shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway, his business conglomerate.This method — known as value investing — had existed long before Mr. Buffett, now 94, began his career. But no one did it as well — or for as long — as he did.