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In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Stocks A to Z / Stocks B / Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A)
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Author: dealraker ✶  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: 15 year comparison - BRK vs S&P
Date: 08/06/25 7:43 AM
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There's nothing more pleasing to read than someone who mentions his luck as to past investment results and such things as the more I invested in other stuff...and so on as to doing less well. At least for me it makes for a rare online trust building that you'd wish to find more of.

Being overweighted insurance brokers and railroads was a gift from someone for me yet the rails and now with the insurance cycle turning my every dog has his day is likely passed...actually surely passed. The experience with Meta and Fairfax was a gift from the COBF board although I had been in those things for a long time.

And somehow someway the DG world? Be right long enough and you'll be asinine wrong. I did try to conjure up some DG discussion when the world looked to be ending. I personally ended up with good buy price with a whopping 300 shares. The real story is that if we were really good we would have knocked a home run with that stock.

Am I really a good investor? Give me time and I'll prove to be an indexer at best.
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