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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: mungofitch ✹✺ SILVER
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Subject: Re: OT: S&P versus T-Bills?
Date: 07/24/24 11:57 AM
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Jim: sitting on as much cash as not in a long time (or similar it was)

Don't read *too* much into it. Real short term interest rates are, for this brief moment, much better than usual. Berkshire is more fully valued than usual. And I am presumably suffering at least in part from the endowment effect. I have the pile of cash from having sold a property earlier in the year, and I just didn't see a great opportunity to deploy it yet, so it's still sitting there. If I had been fully invested I might have sat on my hands a bit more rather than yelling "sell sell sell". The endowment effect is a terrible logical flaw, but perhaps (?) it is better to suffer from it and at least be aware you're likely to be suffering from it.

Jim
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