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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: suaspontemark ✶☼  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Seth Klarman on Warren
Date: 12/19/25 2:55 PM
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Klarman's piece is a fine, fitting, and comprehensive tribute. I got to meet Warren for a minute or two in 2009, and said my snowball had melted some. He laughed and said I had lots of time. Which I did, and his outsized influence - bigger than every other bit of journalism or viewing or books I've read added together - had an outsized influence on my investing outcomes such that I unplugged in my early '50s and had no arithmetic need to work any longer.

Here's to the GOAT, and may he enjoy his next chapter, and I look forward to what Greg has in store for Berkshire, and I'm going to selfishly miss Warren's annual letters after having read them real time for over 20 years now.
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