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Warren Buffett’s Berkshire dumps most of Goldman Sachs stake

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Re: Warren Buffett’s Berkshire dumps most of Goldman Sachs stake

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He lost a huge pile on Kraft Heinz, and that was pre-Corona. Didn't yet realize those losses AFAIK. He lost a pile on the airlines and even decided to realize those losses. He lost a pile on that petroleum company that I forgot the name of, but which crashed and burned recently due to oil prices plunging. He hesitated a long time with tech stocks and lost a lot of money in the last decade due to opportunity cost. His…

Warren Buffet is currently overrated because he doesn't invest in a lot of tech stocks because he claims to not have a complete understanding of the business.If you look at his record from the 70s-90s, you will realize he is the greatest investor ever. We all have our strengths and weaknesses, don't judge a fish on its ability to fly. I think its great that he doesn't invest that much into tech and is very public abo…

At this point in his life, it seems meaningless to debate whether he's still a good investor. He won't have to live with the consequences of today's choices in twenty years. Neither money nor anything else can benefit him. With no incentives, it doesn't even matter if his ability is intact. In twenty years, his successors will either have run BRK into the ground or overshadowed him and nobody will look back to his final investments. Which he must know.

Re: Warren Buffett’s Berkshire dumps most of Goldman Sachs stake

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Not sure why 1998 is relevant to a stake Berkshire bought in 2008.

Because GS has never been about having a "brain trust". It is about proximity to power. That peaked in 1998 when Time magazine ran the "Committee to Save the World" cover, featuring Bob Rubin, Larry Summers, and Alan Greenspan. To this day, people talk about that cover.

http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2054093,00...

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Re: Warren Buffett’s Berkshire dumps most of Goldman Sachs stake

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> Warren Buffet is currently overrated because he doesn't invest in a lot of tech stocks... He's also overrated because of all the insider trading he engages in....he would be a lot poorer if the SEC had the resources/will to investigate his moves.

Lol, that’s clearly untrue. There is zero evidence he has done any insider trading ever.

>Lol, that’s clearly untrue

I don't think you know Buffetts track record.

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Why couldn't he predict it in February?

If you know more than people managing hundreds of billions of dollars, you should consider getting into finance. Shorting the market before February 19th 2020 was quite brilliant. I suppose that few people predicted that this crisis would hit America so hard

Half of wallstreetbets made milions on shorting the maket on the coronavirus. That was not really so hard and he just fucked up.

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Lol, that’s clearly untrue. There is zero evidence he has done any insider trading ever.

>Lol, that’s clearly untrue I don't think you know Buffetts track record.

I know more than you. Have you read both his biographies, his annual investor letters back to mid 70s, and have copies of all his Buffett Partnership letters from the 50s and 60s?

His track record and methods are an open book. And have never included insider trading.

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If you know more than people managing hundreds of billions of dollars, you should consider getting into finance. Shorting the market before February 19th 2020 was quite brilliant. I suppose that few people predicted that this crisis would hit America so hard

Half of wallstreetbets made milions on shorting the maket on the coronavirus. That was not really so hard and he just fucked up.

Half of Wall Street bets made photoshop money. Few there actually makes the trades they claim.

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Many in finance think we're headed for deflation. If that's the case, dumping equities for cash is a sensible move. He may be expecting chaos in the banking sector as bankruptcies roll in, and these mortgage fund fraud allegations gain traction. It's going to be a wild decade. Watch the government use this to vastly expand surveillance powers, too. Not going to be good for the average American.

> Many in finance think we're headed for deflation.

More in the firnance think we're headed for inflation. as soon as money leave equities/deriv markets.

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