Warren Buffett doesn't want Congress to "fool around" with the Federal Reserve's political independence.  Here's a CNBC.com exclusive 'web extra' video clip recorded before last week's Warren Buffett & Bill Gates: Keeping America Great.   Read More

Warren Buffett will be one of three co-chairmen for a just-announced $500 million Goldman Sachs initiative to help small businesses around the United States, and perhaps, the firm's damaged public image.   Read More

Warren Buffett says he's not expecting, and isn't entitled to, "spectacular" returns on Berkshire Hathaway's planned acquisition of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight railroad.  This is a transcript of Buffett's comments on his proposed BNSF deal during a broadcast interview on The Charlie Rose Show.   Read More

In what appears to be a bet consumers will stick with discount retailers even after the economy rebounds, Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway increased its Wal-Mart holdings by almost 90 percent during the summer.  It added almost 18 million shares, currently worth almost $1 billion, in the third quarter.   Read More

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway is due to release its third quarter stock portfolio 'snapshot' later today (Monday).  The 13F filing with the SEC will list Berkshire's holdings of U.S. publicly traded stocks as of September 30.  There are times, however, that Berkshire gets permission from the SEC to keep some holdings confidential, often as it is accumulating a position.    Read More

Warren Buffett tells CNBC that Berkshire Hathaway hasn't added to its stock holdings of American Express "in years."  That's in response to a statement made by biographer Alice Schroeder in the just-published paperback edition of The Snowball.    Read More

This is an online video of the complete CNBC Town Hall Event Warren Buffett and Bill Gates: Keeping America Great, hosted by Becky Quick, as aired on Thursday, November 12, 2009.    Read More

This is the unofficial transcript of the CNBC Town Hall event Warren Buffett and Bill Gates: Keeping America Great, taped Thursday, November 12, 2009 at Columbia University in New York City.    Read More

These are excerpts from the unofficial transcript of CNBC's town hall interview today (Thursday) with Warren Buffett and Bill Gates from Columbia Business School in New York City, as released by CNBC.   Read More

Microsoft's Bill Gates had some words of praise today for Steve Jobs, the CEO of arch-rival Apple, despite the blistering "Mac and PC" television ads that sharply, and humorously, criticize the new Windows 7 operating system.  Here's another highlight from today's taping of CNBC's Warren Buffett and Bill Gates: Keeping America Great.   Read More