Warren Buffett & the End of America

[August1991]

Buffett was born in 1930. Charlie Munger in 1924.

JFK referred to passing a torch.

Xi was born in 1953. Putin in 1952. Both Xi and Putin were born after the last European cataclysm.

[August1991]

Mozart was born in 1759, before a major European War (F* Up)- but everyone knows this:

 

[sharkman]

Could you please make some sort of point?  That is connected to the title of this thread you’ve started?

 

I rewrote that three times, in an attempt to be dispassionate.  Success may have eluded me.

[Michael Hardner]

The presence of a poster who likes to consider things, even poetically, is aggravating to those who want to come on here to moralize and blame cultural groups to which they don't belong.

As the kids say @August1991... you do you.

[August1991]

On 3/29/2023 at 1:42 AM, sharkman said:

Could you please make some sort of point?  That is connected to the title of this thread you’ve started?

 

I rewrote that three times, in an attempt to be dispassionate.  Success may have eluded me.

Buffett was born in 1930, in the midst of a cataclysm.

Nixon and Kennedy were born and forced to live through it.

Churchill lived through the entire period.

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1914-1945 was a disaster for humans. 

[August1991]

From 1789-1815, Europeans also killed each other - a psychopath wanted to control others.

And they did this too from 1618-1648 - the Thirty Years War.

 

[sharkman]

They have been killing each other in Ukraine, and have recently switched to killing each other in Israel/Gaza.  Next year it’ll be Taiwan.  The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Speaking of Buffet, are you aware that last spring he started pulling his money out of the stock market, and now has a reported 140 billion in cash sitting on the sidelines?  Which is the same attitude that Michael Burry has had regarding the DOW.  

This upcoming recession appears to be one of those times that stocks/corporations and such are going to suffer a large drop, and the rich will swoop in and buy everything for pennies on the dollar.  

The more things change, the more they stay the same.  Because human nature never changes, especially the human nature of the debt slaves, which is most of us.

Edited December 13, 2023 by sharkman