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Warren Buffett, Penn, 1948
Yet another aspect of Buffett engaging in financial shenanigans.  Instead of adhering to accepted SEC guidelines concerning marking down long term assets to their objective market values, Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway decided to mark its assets to wishes, not unlike many of the zombie banks and firms such as Enron and others.

Accordingly, here are two articles by the irreverent Zero Hedge highlighting the progressively disturbing behavior of Berkshire Hathaway:

Berkshire Takes Accounting Rules Into Its Own Hands, Tells SEC To Stuff It

A new just released stunner discloses the unprecedented level of hypocrisy attained by Warren Buffett, for whom apparently accounting rules are swell, except when he actually needs to follow them.


Full Text Of Berkshire Letter Deciding To Override SEC Accounting Policies

"We eagerly await Ms. Becky Quick's reporting on this latest development.”

And, here is a link referencing an article by Michael Lewis titled “The Temptation of St. Warren.

As one commenter stated, “Buffet was a crook as a youth; is he now being revealed as a crook at the end of his career, too?”

 


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Jon
10/26/2010 06:46

Is that a fur coat, cigar and top hat? I guess he learned – well after college days - that people will be less critical and even like him if he plays the ‘aw shucks, country boy shtick.’

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toddg
10/27/2010 07:23

does he base his summary of annualized returns on cost versus actual value of these securities? If so doesn't that overstate the performance of managers who are actually under performing? This sounds shady at best

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03/28/2011 10:55

Berkshire's argument that it should be permitted to mark its public stock holdings at mythical valuations versus the actual market prices is cringe-worthy.

Wouldn't Berkshire be insolvent without the direct and indirect government bailouts to its portfolio companies and related entities? The fact that public official permit this is utterly sad.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Buffetts-firm-defends-apf-2169409035.html?x=0&sec=topStories&pos=main&asset=&ccode=

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