Workflow
X @Forbes
Forbes· 2026-05-02 18:30
To recognize companies that are making significant strides toward reaching net zero carbon footprint goals, Forbes partnered with Morningstar Sustainalytics to create its fourth-annual #ForbesNetZeroLeaders list. https://t.co/ZkKLLwP77q https://t.co/9aTErBfnM1 ...
X @Tesla Owners Silicon Valley
Everyone thought the future was carbon fiber.SpaceX bet on stainless steel for Starship instead.It gets stronger at cryogenic temps, handles reentry heat better, and costs ~50x less per kg than carbon composites.The most important Starship decision wasn't the engine. It was the material. ...
Greg Abel on potential for divesting businesses: 'It has to be a relationship that works'
CNBC Television· 2026-05-02 18:24
This question comes from a shareholder who didn't want to be identified, but it's a variation of a question that I got from several shareholders. Is there any future circumstance that you could inver envision Bergkshire divesting businesses or being broken up. If so, what are those circumstances.The shareholder also writes, note, I don't want this to happen, but it's a commonly discussed. It's commonly discussed among followers of the company. >> Yes.So the so um when we think of the question and I think it ...
Greg Abel on Berkshire’s stake in Japan’s Tokio Marine
CNBC Television· 2026-05-02 18:24
Good afternoon. My name is Amir Rahani from Vancouver, Canada. Uh, thank you for hosting us and thanks to everyone at headquarters that makes this weekend possible.Um, Berkshire's investments in the five Japanese trading houses was passive. Good businesses at good prices financed by GPN. Uh, your Tokyo Marine deal is fundamentally different.a 10-year joint M&A and reinsurance partnership. That's a level of operational integration Bergkshire has never done internationally. What does that look like in practic ...
Katie Farmer: Our customers have adapted and adjusted to the tariffs
CNBC Television· 2026-05-02 18:22
Okay, this kind this comes from Brian Simpkins in San Diego, California. The question is, has Berkshire Hathway considered seeking any tariff relief or reimbursement programs for its whollyowned operating businesses exposed to import costs. And how significant is that impact across the portfolio.Let me let me start with the impact across our portfolio because it's it it's very close to uh discussing the the situation in the Middle East in that yes there were there was the the tariffs and each business may h ...
Nikole Hannah-Jones: Gutting the Voting Rights Act isn't just a Black rights issue
MSNBC· 2026-05-02 18:20
Nicole Hannah-Jones joins me now. She's a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter with the New York Times magazine. She's the creator of the 1619 Project, and she is the founder of the Center for Journalism and Democracy at Howard University in D .C.Nicole, thank you for being with us this morning. Not many people realize that Chief Justice Roberts has actually spent his entire career, from his days as a young lawyer in the Reagan White House, working to dismantle the Voting Rights Act. And your words are that this ...
X @The Economist
The Economist· 2026-05-02 18:20
Lloyd’s of London boasts that it has paid out for even the most devastating claims, from the sinking of the Titanic to the attacks on the World Trade Centre https://t.co/kdEQgR3KJV ...
X @The Wall Street Journal
Potential presidential candidates are already looking to build a donor network ahead of formally entering the race next year. https://t.co/PAEh4r909A ...
X @Decrypt
Decrypt· 2026-05-02 18:18
Oscars Ban AI Performances and Screenplays From Eligibilityhttps://t.co/R5hiX8hZij ...
The 1,000% truth behind Trump’s mathematically impossible promise to cut drug prices
MSNBC· 2026-05-02 18:16
warehouses all right it's time for a little math back in the 1980s Donald Trump used to say that his penthouse luxury apartment in Trump Tower in New York City was 30 ,000 square feet he even upped it to Forbes once claiming that it was a sprawling 33 ,000 square feet but public records show that that apartment is 10 ,996 square feet when it comes to how many rooms make up that penthouse apartment thomas wells a former trump real estate lawyer once noticed that different publications had wildly different co ...