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This is the crux of it. Shorting equities as a long term strategy can be fatal. And I’m pretty sure it won’t happen again at Fairfax.

Ha yeah I think Lady Camilla is maybe more of a freak. Didn’t he write her that he wished he could be her unmentionable? Macron is a real head scratcher but I think he had an affair with her when he was a teen and she was his teacher.

Ha yeah I think Lady Camilla is maybe more of a freak. Didn’t he write her that he wished he could be her unmentionable? Macron is a real head scratcher but I think he had an affair with her when he was a teen and she was his teacher.

Then you must really respect King Charles! He traded in Lady Di for Lady Camilla and stayed with her when he became King. Although those Royals, they just keep their mistresses on the side generally. Cheers!

Yeah. I try to put my foot a bit in this whole software sector here and there, where I think there are some special aspects, why they could survive and maybe even use AI. Very slow and tiny so far, the idea is to build it over some quarters and see what sticks.

Correct. It's why macro bets, shorting, hedging have their limitations and can actually increase your risk if you are wrong. Cheers!

Basically the same age, met at OSU, and have been married since 85...

Probably because he is a decent human being who doesn’t just dump his wife the second he becomes rich and popular. Make me respect him more actually.

I also added shares today. I don’t think AI will kill that one and I think AI agents can greatly supplement their software.

The mistakes were made by Obama. Nothing but a stronger Iranian threat was a feasible outcome under that deal. Today, a much better outcome is at least possible. No thanks to anyone but the US and Israel.

Come on, you do not. We've read the thread, and there's probably 150 posts from you that show this isn't true. My position is that, based on the evidence available at the time, it was a good decision to attack Iran, and was probably necessary after the mistakes Trump made during term one. The net outcome ended up being quite bad for the USA and it's unclear to me if the outcomes will be good or bad for the world.

Three days as you guys noted but they actually picked up the pace a bit. Their target is 50% of 2025 income in capital return. They paid a dividend of a little over 7 eurocents last week.They plan to spend up to €280m over the next year on the buyback based on the press release. It makes sense for them to be more aggressive at lower prices and it seems like they are.

New starter position in TYL

Its sooo tempting to checkout Marco Paulo on X, squirming uncomfortably, attempting to worm his way out of looking like a total fool tool whom once again basically became the guy who's screams about higher oil prices more or less marked the top. It was probably a "religious" experience like in August 2022 when he ate the top there too. Heck, he's even doing the "I bought in September 2025" appeal to rationalize how pretty much anybody whom listened to him during this whole saga lost money. Man the internet can be fun. But lesson should be learned, never take the guys selling newsletters that always seem to pump the same. exact. stuff...serious at all. If anything, theyre contras.

You focus on Trump, I focus on the Country and the World. There is no decision to be made because this entire conflict has yet to play out in the minds of anyone who cares about more than how it involves Trump. The winners could be the Iranian people and the entire Middle East region under the right circumstances. That is my hope.

Has there ever been any disclosure by Fairfax of ownership of Peller shares prior to the announcement of the takeover? I don't see any mention of it in the press release.

does it matter? could be the best company in the world and it doesn't make sense that someone who's comfy with 1-2% positions has a 50%+ position.

Lol. Or we do, either way, makes more sense.

I focused on Trump because I assumed you were American and cared mostly about a good outcome for America, since you're talking (trumpeting?) all the different ways that America can hurt Iranians. That said, I think I get it. You really don't want to make a decision between the two options because the first option means Trump is right but what you said earlier is wrong, or at best irrelevant, and the second option means what you said earlier is relevant, but Trump is too stupid to see it. Both scenarios are pretty intolerable to you, so it's a very good idea to avoid the question.

yes it is three trading days of repurchase activity

The gains from CDS aren't unlimited whereas the losses from equity hedges are unlimited, right?

Why does one need to pick either option or a "winner" or "loser" while negotiations have barely begun? You choose to view the issue from the POV of Trump - again not sure why. From Iran's POV - the one that matters, they either survive for a while or longer, or they don't. Don't know which one is better for the current regime operators or the country at large. We'll see.

As Buffett said, there was the possibility that the GFC would have taken down everything, including Berkshire...even though it would have been the last to fall. It's why only government intervention could backstop the problem! I suspect the CDS wasn't made to simply get a grand-slam homerun, but to make sure FFH was still standing when the shit really hit the fan! The equity hedges were done for a similar reason...they were just wrong on how government intervention globally would ignite a massive market run...not dissimilar to what we are witnessing today. The underlying, correlated risks won't become evident until the music stops! Cheers!

Risk management means paying a premium to buy insurance to limit the risk and if the risk doesn't materialize, you'll lose the premium only and not the exposure to unlimited losses like a direct short, right?

I think this is over 3 days... Europeans report the day and month backwards right?