One of the key highlights is a value investing panel moderated by Prof. Bruce Greenwald on “Investing in India: Finding Value” with four India’s focused equity investors. Event details are as follows:

Friday, April 1st 2011
Alfred Lerner Hall, Columbia University, 2960 Broadway, New York, NY 10027

For more details and registration, visit India Business Conference

Part 1: Most Berkshire Businesses ‘Inching Along’

Part 2 : The ‘Zebra’ That Got Away

Part 3: ‘Elephant Gun’ Targets & Riding the Railroad

Part 4: Blame Bankers, Bankers, Bankers?

Part 5: Cars and Bricks

Part 6: China and America’s Diminishing Dominance

Part 7: What Should Happen to CEOs of Failed Companies

If you’re interested in the psychology of failure and success with money, then go read this new PDF report - and watch the video that goes with it (just go to this link to get it for free):

Psychological Mistakes We All Make With Money Report

Inside, you’ll learn:

Why it is that money confuses us on a psychological level - and how this leads to most of us winding up broke and dependent on others by retirement age.

How a simple monthly car payment can cost you millions of dollars (seriously).

Why buying or selling things when you’re “under the influence of emotion” always costs you a lot in the long-run.

A money mistake that most people make when figuring out how much a purchase will actually cost them (almost everyone makes this expensive mistake - and you’ll learn how to avoid it).

As a bonus on top of the free PDF report and video, you also get a download exercise that will help you stop “self-sabotaging” with money.

Again, it’s all free - but only for the next several days - so go get it now. Get it by registering here:

Psychological Mistakes We All Make With Money Report

How we perceive money will have a great influence on whether we are able to be wealthy.

But before we go into that, do you know whether your understanding of money is correct?

Do you know:

1) Where did money come from and why was it created?

2) How does money and the money system actually work?

3) What are the three types of money that have been used, and why were they created?

If you didn’t know the answers to all three of these questions (and you don’t feel confident about money), then you might want to go get this new free report and video – which explains where money came from, how it works – and how to overcome your blocks to getting more of it.

There’s more to come but for now, you can opt-in here to get the 15-page PDF report and 22-minute video.It turns out that the type of money we use today is nothing like the first money that was created – and the way we use money is also completely different.

You can watch the full interview in two parts below. If you prefer reading, the transcript can be found here.

On the Brink gives an insider account of the events that unfolded in the biggest financial crisis that took place since the Great Depression.

On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System

“The pace of events during the financial crisis of 2008 was truly breathtaking. In this book, I have done my best to describe my actions and the thinking behind them during that time, and to convey the breakneck speed at which events were happening all around us.

I believe the most important part of this story is the way Ben Bernanke, Tim Geithner, and I worked as a team through the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. There can’t be many other examples of economic leaders managing a crisis who had as much trust in one another as we did. Our partnership proved to be an enormous asset during an incredibly difficult period. But at the same time, this is my story, and as hard as I have tried to reflect the contributions made by everyone involved, it is primarily about my work and that of my talented and dedicated team at Treasury.”

Here, in two parts, is the video recording of the entire event:

It was a lively session hosted by Becky Quick of CNBC.

The full transcripts of the session can be read here:

Warren Buffett and Bill Gates Columbia Business School Full Transcript

Excerpts and Images From the Event

Burlington Northern, the nation’s second-largest railroad, is the biggest hauler of food products like corn and coal for electricity, making it an indicator of the country’s economic health.

Analysts say Buffett is planting both feet in an industry that is poised to grow as the economy gets back on solid ground.

Berkshire Hathaway already owns about 22 percent of Burlington Northern and will pay $100 a share in cash and stock for the rest of the company.This is a 31.5 percent premium on Burlington Northern’s Monday closing price.

Shareholders have the option to convert their stock for a cash payment of $100 per share or receive Berkshire Class A or Class B common stock. Up to 60 percent of the deal is cash and 40 percent is in stock.

Berkshire’s board also approved a 50-for-1 split of its Class B common stock for holders of smaller amounts of Burlington shares who opt for a share exchange rather than cash.

Some points from the interview include:

• Warren Buffett is optimistic about the U.S. economy over the long term, but has no idea how it will be in the short term. It will ultimately turn; he just don’t know when.
• The time to buy stocks is when business sentiment is bad and nobody is buying.
• The more cheap things become, the more he will buy. He likes to buy when things are cheap. While it is not the most attractive time now (it was in 1974 and 1975), it is among the more attractive now.
• He reads 5 newspapers a day but the future of newspapers companies is very bleak.
• The U.S. will need more tax revenue. Countries which has a huge debt always end up inflating their way out of it.

Complete transcripts of the interview can be downloaded here.

You can watch the clips below: