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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: AdrianC ⎊✹  😊 😞
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Subject: Bloomstran’s Letter
Date: 02/23/25 9:11 PM
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Chris Bloomstran published his annual letter. It normally comes out a day before Buffett’s but this year was not on the web site till yesterday afternoon.

static.fmgsuite.com: PDF document

168 pages! I confess I have not read the whole thing. From what I have read:
- The US stock market is in a bubble akin to the dot-com meltdown. Don’t own the cap-weighted index.
- Berkshire is undervalued, but not as much as usual. IV $522. Dry powder.
- That IV includes valuing the cash holdings over $80 billion as more than cash, assuming it will be invested relatively soon.
- Some pages about DG that I didn’t read.

As always, I just don’t get why he doesn’t delay a couple of days and use the correct numbers for Berkshire instead of his estimates. He gets insurance earnings way low, for example.
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