The Most Powerful Women

Warren Buffett at Fortune Women's Conference: On the Economy and George Clooney

Kara Swisher in News on September 15, 2009 at 12:01 pm PT

Folksy set was on the highest burner possible at Fortune magazine’s Most Powerful Women’s conference this morning, as legendary financial investor Warren Buffett took to the stage. Buffett, who was interviewed by Fortune’s terrific Carol Loomis onstage in Carlsbad, Calif., held forth to the crowd–made up mostly of women–having instructed Loomis previously to “do anything with me…I like your crowd.”