Buffett on the Economy, Politics
Airtime: Mon. Mar. 1 2010 |
Legendary investor Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, talks to CNBC about the economy and politics.

Airtime: Mon. Mar. 1 2010 |
Legendary investor Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, talks to CNBC about the economy and politics.

The Philadelphia Fed’s business activity index rose to 1.0 in October from minus 0.7 in September. CNBC’s Rick Santelli shares his analysis.

Lihir Gold has rejected an US$8.5 bn billion takeover offer from Newcrest Mining. Ron Cameron, senior analyst at Ord Minnett and Greg Canavan, editor of Sound Money – Sound Investments, weigh in on the deal, with CNBC’s Amanda Drury & Sri Jegarajah.

Japan has revised downwards its Q4 GDP growth to 0.9%. Frederic Neumann, senior Asian economist at HSBC, tells CNBC’s Martin Soong & Karen Tso that this revision adds pressure on the BOJ to extend its easy monetary policy.

Best trades in a deflationary environment, with Stuart Freeman, of Wells Fargo Advisors, and Todd Colvin, of MF Global.

As European governments promised they will take steps to reduce gaping budget deficits, famous investor Jim Rogers told CNBC he bought the single European currency. Luca Silipo from Natixis and David Kotok from Cumberland Advisors joined the discussion.

“The bond vigilantes are one by one picking off the weakest countries starting with Greece,” Neil Michael from London & Capital told CNBC Wednesday. The “vigilantes” are telling governments to “get a grip of their public finances,” he added.