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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: LiveWire10k ⎊  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: barrons on the bank stock sales by BUffett etc,
Date: 01/17/26 11:07 AM
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Ah, the horseplayer’s lament. “I would, I shoulda, I coulda”. Exactly what does that tell us? Nothing. Actually it tells us that hindsight is 20-20.

Do you know how many hundreds of billions of dollars Berkshire would have made if the proceeds from the bank stock sales had all been invested in Invidia? I don’t and it does not matter.

Easy to be a critic. Of course, in order to miss out on $50 billion of capital gains, you need to have the capital to miss out on $50 billion of gains. And that, my friends, is a pretty small club.

Do they have a suggestion for where BRK should put $300 billion, right now? Now that would be something meaningful.
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