In the third edition of this international best seller, Lawrence Cunningham brings you the latest wisdom from Warren Buffett's annual letters to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders. New material addresses: ?the financial crisis and its continuing implications for investors, managers and society; ?the housing bubble at the bottom of that crisis; ?the debt and derivatives excesses that fueled the crisis and how to deal with them; ?controlling risk and protecting reputation in corporate governance; ?Berkshire's acquisition and operation of Burlington Northern Santa Fe; ?the role of oversight in heavily regulated industries; ? investment possibilities today; and ?weaknesses of popular option valuation models.Some other material has been rearranged to deepen the themes and lessons that the collection has always produced: ? Buffett's “owner-related business principles” are in the prologue as a separate subject and ? valuation and accounting topics are spread over four instead of two sections and reordered to sharpen their payoff.