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On Monday, March 9th, Billionaire investor Warren Buffett will join CNBC's Becky Quick live from Omaha for a special edition of CNBC's signature morning show, "Squawk Box" (6AM-9AM ET). For three hours, the Oracle of Omaha will answer viewer's questions about Berkshire Hathaway's performance, the markets and the economy. To submit questions email askwarren@cnbc.com or go to CNBC.com and click on "Ask Warren." For more information go to: buffettwatch.cnbc.com.

There are at least two pretty effective ways to turn someone into a Republican: (1) get them married with kids and (2) get them to invest in the stock market. So, if I were a highly paid Democratic political strategist, I would make sure to spend a few minutes every day thinking of ways to get Americans out of the stock market—the faster, the better. And that's why if Barack Obama is elected president next week, 2009 may well bring a concerted and all-out effort by the Obama administration and a Democratically dominated Congress to turn the generally pro-Republican Investor...

I’ve found the worst investor ever. I mean this has to be him right? His name is Jerome Fisher, the name may be slightly familiar as the founder of shoe-company Nine West. But he has done so much more than that. He lost a significant chunk of change in not one, but two of the biggest hedge fund scams in history, KL Group and Bernie Madoff Investment Securities. He was an investor with the KL Group, a hedge fund run by Korean-American scam artists who defrauded investors of nearly $200 million. Maybe he should get a pass for this one...

BOSTON – His repeated warnings that Wall Street money manager Bernard Madoff was running a giant Ponzi scheme have cast Harry Markopolos as an unheeded prophet. But people who know or worked with Markopolos say it wasn't prescience that helped him foresee the collapse of Madoff's alleged $50 billion fraud. Instead, they say diligence and a strong moral sense drove his quixotic, nine-year quest to alert regulators about Madoff.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – A financial manipulation scheme cost American International Group Inc investors at least $544 million, a judge has estimated, a finding that could mean the five former executives convicted in the fraud will face lengthy prison terms when sentenced. The case is unrelated to AIG's mortgage-related losses that led to a near collapse of the company in September and an $85 billion emergency line of credit from the U.S. Federal Reserve. Four former executives at General Re Corp, a unit of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc, and one former AIG executive were found guilty by a federal...

Hedge Funds Get Rattled As Investors Seek Exits Friday September 5, 11:44 pm ET By Gregory Zuckerman and Craig Karmin With anxiety about hedge-fund woes gripping the market, funds have their own fear: their investors. Some investors, particularly what are known as "funds of funds," are demanding their money back and may ramp up requests in the weeks ahead. That has prompted hedge-fund managers to sell securities to raise cash. "As the hedge fund investor base broadens, hedge fund portfolio management...slips out of the hands of the portfolio managers and into the hands of the investors," wrote , who runs...

Investor group attacks banks over subprime By Francesco Guerrera and Ben White in New York Published: March 10 2008 21:46 | Last updated: March 10 2008 21:46 A band of vocal shareholders will this week step up a campaign against a string of Wall Street banks, accusing them of failing to prevent their mortgage-related losses and threatening to vote against several directors at upcoming shareholder meetings. Union-backed CtW Investment Group, whose affiliated pension funds have over $200bn (£99.5bn) under management, is expected to launch its first attack on Morgan Stanley, and follow up with campaigns against some of the banks...

Hedge Funds Are Squeezed by Investors and Lenders By JENNY ANDERSON As summer neared, investors in Sowood Capital Management, a $3 billion hedge fund, had little to complain about. The fund was up 16 percent over the previous 12 months. Blue-chip management was in place, and any risk was well-hedged with a comfortable cushion of financing in place, the fund said in a letter to investors. But a rocky June turned into a calamitous July, and by the end of the month, Sowood was on the brink of collapse. As the credit market tightened, Sowood had to sell stocks to...

Job growth is falling, and unfortunately, fewer jobs are being created. A lot of new jobs are going to low-cost labor markets, like China and India. The U.S. can't compete with this, nor should it try. This doesn't mean jobs will never again be created here. New jobs will emerge, but they'll be in different industries and perhaps driven by unique demographics, like in health care, where an aging population is creating the need for workers. (The U.S. has only lost 2% of the payroll base, despite all we've been through; it's a very mild adjustment. Germany and Japan have...

March 20, 2007 -- Flamboyant Wall Street trader turned TV host Jim Cramer, not known for being the shy, retiring type, might have said too much in a video interview he did for a financial Web site. The host of CNBC's daily program "Mad Money" had hedge fund-trading desks buzzing yesterday after he bragged about manipulating stock prices during his days as a trader. In the video from TheStreet.com's "Wall Street Confidential" Webcast, Cramer boasts about manipulating the price of a high-flying stock down, and even acknowledges that doing so might have been illegal. The video is making the rounds...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fcre8P2UUY Bloomberg TV just did a special documentary on Naked Short Selling and airs March 13th at 7pm EST, 9pm EST, 10pm EST. Discusses naked short selling and what is being done to stop it.

One of the nation's most prominent hedge funds, Pequot Capital Management, is under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission for possible insider trading, according to government officials briefed on the case.

Investors who sought quick profits buying and selling real estate in the Washington region are in full retreat, dampening demand for homes, most notably for condos. What is becoming apparent, market watchers say, is how big a part speculators played in the region's real estate boom of the past few years. Not just condominiums, but also townhouses and single-family houses, were snapped up by investors using no-money-down financing and non-traditional loans. They helped send prices soaring at unprecedented rates. And now many are trying to sell, or rent at a loss. Some may eventually dump properties at low prices to...

'Le Sheriff' predicts al-Qaeda attack in AsiaLONDON, Aug 26 (AFP) - Al-Qaeda is preparing an attack on a big financial centre in Asia, such as Tokyo, Singapore or Sydney, to undermine investor confidence in the region, France's top terrorist investigator says. In an interview with the Financial Times newspaper Friday, Jean-Louis Bruguière added that several Asian countries are less prepared than Britain or the United States for such an attack. "We have elements of information that make us think that countries in this region, especially Japan, could have been targeted" by the al-Qaeda network, the investigating magistrate said. "Any attack...

PARIS - Billionaire investor George Soros, challenging a conviction for insider trading, denied the charges in a French appeals hearing Thursday and insisted he knows the difference between inside and public information. The Hungarian-born financier was fined 2.2 million euros ($2.8 million at today's rates) in December 2002, matching the amount he was accused of having made from buying and selling shares of French bank Societe Generale with insider knowledge 17 years ago. Questioned by the three-judge panel, Soros confirmed having received some information from French financier Georges Pebereau about his investment fund's plans to buy a large stake in...

A galactic mystery hovers over the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland: How many of the 2,280 global leaders, including 31 heads of state, gathered in this Alpine resort conduct business with extraterrestrials? This is no whimsy for Davosians. It's on the agenda of the annual powwow of the influential and affluent who will ask forum participants such as Vice President Dick Cheney, Coca-Cola Chairman Douglas Daft and De La Rue Chief Executive Ian Much if the aliens have landed and are collaborating with them to concoct government policy, brew soda pop and mint Iraq's new bank notes. "The...

AMERICANS may be the biggest single foreign investment player in Australia, but the Brits have it over them when it comes to making a profit. A new study by the Australian Bureau of Statistics into globalisation found American owned firms made a greater contribution to the domestic economy than any other country. United States' residents own 3439 businesses. The next best were Brits who owned 792 businesses. Other foreign nationals with strong business links to Australia included New Zealand (871 businesses), South Africa (632 businesses), Hong Kong (440 businesses), Germany (378 businesses) and Japan (347 businesses). The American owned businesses...

Whichever way you look at the US presidential election of 2000, you see a nation divided right down the middle. George W. Bush and Al Gore each received 48 per cent of the popular vote. Among those who cast votes for a Senate candidate, 48 per cent voted Republican and 48 per cent voted Democrat. The same 48 per cent/48 per cent vote was tallied for the House of Representatives. And, lest we forget, the Florida Supreme Court voted 4 to 3 for Mr Gore, while the US Supreme Court voted 5 to 4 for Mr Bush. The 2000 election...

At the beginning of 2003, President George W. Bush holds double digit leads over five Democratic contenders for his job. In ballot tests against Senator Tom Daschle, Senator John F. Kerry, Senator Joe Lieberman, Senator John Edwards, and Governor Howard Dean, the President was consistently preferred by about 45% of American voters. In each case, the Democratic candidate received approximately 30% of the vote. No matter which prospective Democratic nominee was named, roughly 10% of voters said they would opt for a third party candidate and roughly 15% were not sure how they would vote. The sheer consistency of the...

SAN DIEGO, May 25 (UPI) -- An Internet investment adviser charged with insider trading was being held without bail on a parole violation Saturday after federal prosecutors in San Diego raised questions about a stock-sales order he placed the day before the September terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. Amir "Anthony" Elgindy, 34, of Encinitas, faces charges in New York of allegedly taking part in a stock manipulation and extortion scheme with four other people, including two current and former FBI agents. Prosecutors, however, raised questions during a detention hearing Friday about what he might have known...