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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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Author: hclasvegas   😊 😞
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Subject: Barron's, interest rates, if Buffett
Date: 08/04/23 8:16 AM
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Isn't a fan of long dated paper now, is it any mystery what he really thinks about what BAC, did, the past few years? ' Billionaires are weighing in on the bond market, where yields have risen sharply. Tesla's Elon Musk, for instance, called short-term Treasuries a 'no-brainer,' and of course Berkshire Hathaway's Warren Buffett said Fitch's downgrade of U.S. debt wasn't going to keep him out of that market, either.

Berkshire bought $10 billion of U.S. Treasuries on Monday as it does every week, Buffett told CNBC. Berkshire buys Treasury bills at the weekly government auctions of 3-month and 6-month bills. About $104 billion of Berkshire's cash was so invested as of March.
But Buffett isn't a fan of longer-dated paper. Berkshire's equity portfolio totals about $375 billion, while it held just $23 billion of bonds as of March. Long-dated Treasuries are on pace for their worst week of the year, with the 30-year yield near November 2022 highs, and 10-years yielding 4.13%.
Hedge-fund manager Bill Ackman tweeted on Wednesday that he was betting on 30-year yields to continue rising, possibly to 5.5% from 4.3% now. On Thursday, he said his firm Pershing Square invests cash in short-term Treasuries.
Ackman noted in his annual letter to shareholders earlier this year that Pershing Square had made about $5 billion from rate bets since 2020, including one initiated in 2020 that profited from the sharp rise in rates the Fed has rolled out since early 2022.'
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