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Alex Crippen is an Executive Producer at CNBC and CNBC.com.  He started with the network in 1990.  Crippen began his media career in affiliate TV and news radio. He holds a degree in economics from Wesleyan University.
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Nov.21
1:50 PM ET
A subsidiary of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway will acquire the recreational vehicle division of Coachmen Industries in what looks like another Buffett-style bargain during tough times.  Coachmen's survival as a company had been in doubt.   Read More
Nov.21
12:27 PM ET
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway has agreed to make a new $300 million investment in USG Corporation, sending shares soaring for the big Chicago-based building materials maker.  But USG will be paying a high interest rate for Buffett's "expression of confidence."   Read More
Nov.21
11:01 AM ET
Warren Buffett doesn't appear to be worried about multi-year lows in the stock market.  In an interview on Fox Business Network, a smiling Buffett says "it's happened before" and it's been even worse.  As for the sharp drop in Berkshire's stock price, Buffett says that's also happened in the past and he jokes that he hopes he lives long enough for it to happen to him again several times in the future.   Read More
Nov.21
5:19 AM ET
After falling for nine straight days, shares of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway have dropped almost 50 percent from their all-time closing high set last December.  Berkshire closed today at $77,500 a share, down $6,500, or 7.7 percent. It's a fresh three-year low. Buffett's reputation as the world's greatest investor means the stock's big fall is getting lots of attention as some investors ask if he's losing his touch and other's defend him.   Read More
Nov.19
6:32 PM ET
Wednesday, 19 Nov 2008
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway fell just over 12 percent on Wall Street today (Wednesday), its biggest one-day percentage drop since 1987's 'Black Monday' over 21 years ago.  It appears some of the Oracle's followers are losing the faith.   Read More
Nov.19
11:06 AM ET
Wednesday, 19 Nov 2008
Warren Buffett drives a hard bargain. When he invests billions in a company, he can generally get a better deal than the rest of us.  Now SmartMoney columnist James B. Stewart writes about "a rare opportunity to invest on terms that may be even better than Mr. Buffett got" for his $5 billion infusion into Goldman Sachs.   Read More
Nov.18
10:36 AM ET
Tuesday, 18 Nov 2008
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway will get almost a billion dollars in cash for its Anheuser-Busch shares, now that the St. Louis brewer's acquisition by Belgium's InBev has been formally completed.    Read More
Nov.17
9:56 PM ET
Monday, 17 Nov 2008
Shares of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway closed below $100,000 today (Monday) for the first time in just over two years. The most recent sub-$100K close before today was on October 20, 2006.    Read More
Nov.16
7:37 PM ET
Sunday, 16 Nov 2008
Warren Buffett "knows and loves" American Express and would come to its rescue if needed, suggests Barron's.  But it argues American Express probably won't need to call on Buffett for help, because it has enough cash to get through the tough times ahead, even though an "overreacting" Wall Street has pushed its shares down to 1997 levels.   Read More
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