The Week’s Top Stories at VIN

Warren Buffett told CNBC’s Becky Quick his opinion of the bailout plan over the weekend, “It’s what I would do if I were there.”

Analysis of Buffett’s recent investment in Goldman Sachs and how dividends play a role.

Festival of Stocks – Many posts on individual stocks and the ongoing financial crisis

One of our readers asked about my thoughts on Trident Microsystems (Nasdaq: TRID). Trident is an electronics company that designs and manufactures integrated circuits for different digital media products such as digital television and liquid crystal displays.

Analysts cite a large drop in same store sales, and there is a fear out there that Build-A-Bear is a fad whose time has now passed.

Amisco’s stock price is at $1.64, which is down 84% from the $10.15 price in April 2004. The P/B on Amisco’s stock is currently just 0.38.

Nordic American Tanker is not a dividend achiever but a component of the NYSE Composite and Zacks Yield Hog index. From the end of 1999 up until September 2008 this dividend stock has delivered an annual average total return of 29.10 % to its shareholders. The stock gained 19 % value so far in 2008.

Have you ever pondered the concept of forever or infinity?

Warren Buffett tells CNBC he’s making a $5 billion investment in Goldman Sachs because “the price was right, the terms were right, and the people were right.” Best quote: “Why buy a Wall Street firm after his difficult experience with Salomon in the early 1990s? “The pain has worn off,” he joked.”

Todd Sullivan thinks Goldman Sachs is raising money in order to pick up some cheap assets. I’m thinking Buffett saw some cheap assets as well by providing the financing.