Subject: Re: meaningless predictions
I note that Mr Buffett has shown a strong preference for A shares lately relative to B shares. Since the buybacks seem sometimes to be limited by liquidity, this is a bit surprising.

Would he perhaps be looking ahead with an eye towards the cumulative benefit of retiring a small percentage of the pool of A shares (with their outsize voting rights) each year?

The math wrt voting control will change once all of his shares have ultimately been liquidated by the Gates Foundation. Institutional buyers will presumably be content spending 98c of their capital on B shares when A shares would cost $1.00, but it would still be nice to have as many A shares as possible in the hands of old stubborn individual shareholders

--sutton