TY - BOOK AU - Tavakoli,Janet M. TI - Dear Mr. Buffett: what an investor learns 1,269 miles from Wall Street SN - 9780470406786 (cloth) PY - 2009/// CY - Hoboken, N.J. PB - John Wiley & Sons, Inc. KW - Berkshire Hathaway Inc KW - Investments KW - Decision making KW - Investment analysis KW - Financial risk management KW - Value N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; An unanswered invitation -- Lunch with Warren -- The prairie princes versus the princes of darkness -- The insatiable curiosity to know nothing worth knowing (Oscar Wilde was right) -- Mad mortgages : the "great" against the powerless -- Shell games (beware of geeks bearing grifts) -- Financial astrology : "AAA" falling stars -- Bear market (I'd like a review of the bidding) -- Dead man's curve -- Mark to myth and the black box -- Bond insurance burns main street -- Money, money, money (Warren and Washington) -- The fogs of war, religion, and politics -- Finding value UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0826/2008035055.html ER -