Warren Buffett, 2010 Shareholder Letter, Berkshire Hathaway Inc., 2011

Rating: 4/5 Link

• To the Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.

Natasha Singer and Reed Abelson, Can Johnson & Johnson Get Its Act Together?, The New York Times, 2011

Rating: 4/5 Link

• Little red flags jut out from the shelves at a CVS drugstore in suburban Boston, alerting shoppers to shortages of nearly a dozen Johnson & Johnson products. Among them are Motrin, Rolaids, children’s Tylenol liquid and adult Tylenol, Mylanta, Pepcid AC and even some Neutrogena skin care products.

Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele, Deadly Medicine, Vanity Fair, 2010

Rating: 4/5 Link 

• The globalization of the pharmaceutical industry.

Matthew L. Wald, Giant Holes in the Ground, Technology Review, 2010

Rating: 4/5 Link1 Link2

• An expected nuclear renaissance has failed to materialize as plans for new plants are scrapped or delayed. What happened?

Arthur E. Berman, Shale Gas - Abundance or Mirage? Why The Marcellus Shale Will Disappoint Expectations, The Oil Drum, 2010

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• Shale gas plays in the United States are commercial failures and shareholders in public exploration and production (E&P) companies are the losers.

Marianne Lavelle, The Great Shale Gas Rush, National Geographic, 2010

Rating: 4/5 Link

• Pennsylvania sits atop one of the world’s largest natural gas reservoirs, promising clean energy and new jobs. But can this resource be extracted sustainably?
• U.S. energy industry innovators unlocked the natural gas found in deep shale rock by combining and super-charging old oil industry techniques.
• Hopes are high that jobs will flow as fast as the natural gas in the energy boom that has hit Pennsylvania.
• The shale gas industry maintains that it safeguards the environment, but accidents have sown mistrust as the industry has moved into rural communities.