John Hjorth

HaHa! - Hit on it!, @whatstheofficerproblem !

You may say so, but his performance is quite impressive, just take a look a this 80 years old charlatan and womanizer working on the always white dressed female Italian, who won't beg him! [If you ask me, it's just awesome, nobody can make this up, except AI! - please don't tell Melania about it, or your President may be in trouble! ] : https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116869343915433662

@whatstheofficerproblem, Alone the fact that you've now posted your origin here on CofB&F may possibly end up being of tremendous help for you, not that this to be understood as CofB&F are divided into national groups, but it always helps to get to know someone - at least it can'r hurt.

@Whensthepaintdry?, Yeah, I remember that, too, and on Reddit a Q&A is called an AMA [Ask Me Anything]! <John, quite happy & proud to post a material contribution here *shrug*> - - - o 0 o - - - In short, she lost access to Warren Buffett after the release of 'Snowball'.

I sincerely wish you the best of luck going forward, @whatstheofficerproblem !, With that said, you're also forgiven to post push back to NYC dirt & trash talk in this topic, which it's over time evolved to become!

I've personally been holding my breath the last couple of days related to the Ankara NATO summit ... - how would it go, and how would it turn out related especially the relationship of NATO to USA, and here we go - To me personally, it certainly could have turned out much, much more worse than this : NATO - Press Office [July 8th 2026] : The Ankara Summit Declaration - 8 July 2026 - - - o 0 o - - - By now, released about a half an hour ago.

I'm sorry to see how this not well thought out comment of mine, with no real value, has triggered this exchange, despite both gents Charlie [ @dealraker ] and @73 Reds are handling it well. A token of the basic and severe division inside the American society, I speculate. - - - o 0 o - - - I think it's about 1½ years ago, I did put on a 'personal silencer' in this topic on myself related to domestic US politics [not US foreign politics] and US general conditions, but it unfortunately still happens regularly, that a quip unintentionally escapes between my rips.

HaHa! - I have grown a soft spot for your humor, @Spekulatius!

@Sinbius, I'll take the freedom to respectfully challenge that statement above of yours. EU has nothing to do with and no control over EU members' defence spending, however each EU members defence budget matter for each country, especially versus the relation to NATO membership, if NATO member. There doesen't even exist a NATO Army, a NATO Navy or a NATO Air Force. It's all mirages and wet dreams in the heads om some persons in Brussels. What EU does against Big Tech can the same way be challenged. Nobody here where I live [Denmark, both NATO and EU member] are on the hunt after Big Tech. It's a general misperception outside Europe, that EU decides 'everything' inside EU. EU simply doesen't. - - - o 0 o - - - @Sinbius, Are you Danish? -I'm asking because you have linked to a YouTube video with Danish text translation. Please feel free to decline to answer my question - I respect you privacy, if you decline to answer my question.

That one-liner key sentence is actually kind of clicl-bait, @Spekulatius LoLz! - Furthermore I simply lost my focus and attention after a quarter of the interview because of Anthony Scaramuccis T- or sweat shirt and the view to his bookshelf [nosy!] I swallow the rest of the interview after some sleep. The take is very interesting for a European citizen like me.

Berlingske - Commentary column - Samuel Rachlin [July 4th 2026] : Putin seeks way out, but is entangled, stuck in a war that keeps his utopia about Russian greatness and triumph alive [subscription protected] - - - o 0 o - - - Attached : 1. Article translated to English language by the use of Google Translate, 2. Article in Danish language, source for 1. - - - o 0 o - - - Note : Translation is far from perfect, I have only fixed the header here in this post, by posting the column header. - - - o 0 o - - - The whole situation is absolutely depressing to think about - I personally have a hard time to see a feasible alternative to just continuing the warfare activities, with continued massive losses of human lives. *sigh* Berlingske - Samuel Rachlin - Putin søger en udvej men er spundet ind i en krig der holder liv i hans utopi om Ruslands storhed og triumf - Opinion - English - 20260705.pdf Berlingske - Samuel Rachlin - Putin søger en udvej men er spundet ind i en krig der holder liv i hans utopi om Ruslands storhed og triumf - Opinion - Danish - 20260705.pdf

No need to post such like this in Egons [ @EgonKuhns ] USA anniversary topic of today on a day like this: DR - Northern Jutland [July 4th 2026] : Trump should not trump Danish US celebration Honestly : Wtf?! - So, the American Ambassador to Denmark not invited as usual, because of of some boneheads elected to Aalborg City Council now putting ''non-Trump elected' conditions' on a subsidy of DKK 300 K ?! You got to be kidding me! -This is just soo un-Danish towards our most important ally! - - - o 0 o - - - Wikipedia : Rebild Festival Rebild National Park Society

Happy 4th of July to United States of America!, here especially to all our American CofB&F members and their families!

YouTube - The Alex Marlow Show [June 30th 2026] : Lara Trump on America 250, AI Data Centers & Greenland with Gov. Jeff Landry - - - o 0 o - - - Grenland comments starts at around the 14:40 mark. POTUS' Greenland special envoy is simply put a notorious liar. Period. Pure *BS*.

Egon [ @EgonKuhn ] & @Spekulatius, @Spekulatiuss points above are valid. Related to tax efficiency, @Spekulatiuss commment may as far as I understand relate to you, Egon [ @EgonKuhn ], while it is not relevant for me, holding this basket stuff in Danish tax deferred accounts [I get credit in Danish taxes for foreign withheld dividend taxes]. Related to why even try? I'll mention I have looked at the rest of Europe at that time, also, but never engaged in anything at that time. In stead of trawling through long lists of listed companies I did download to a spreadsheet the total portfolio of NBIM [Norges Bank Investment Mangement], and turned on some filters [country, real estate] to take a tour in Europe looking around. [Link ]. [NBIM stocks likely picked by one of many investment mandates, Nicolai Tangen is too busy doing podcasts!]. I did not feel comfortable at any of that stuff, knowing nothing about local conditions, regulation and such.

LoLz! [Never heard the expression before!]

What do you know about to which extent and about what I communicate with politicians,at municipipality, region and state? Nobody here where I live is asking me to shut up, dragging me to court! And I have no debt, that anyone can buy to press me in my belly butt! Germany is Germany, and we should all respect what Germans decides for them selves, based on Germanys own background, history and culture. It's your i.e. '<German> to <European>' projection, with no basis posted by you at all, in almost all your posts here, I'm objecting fiercely against. - - - o 0 o - - - To bent it neon : Why the f**ck can't you meet thy sisters and brothers in Europe in eye-height, in stead of pecking on them all the time? - It's simply sick to me.

Just the usual 'one specific unsatisfacty thing'that you don't like for a specific European country [where you don't live, so it not in in any way is up to you, and your business at all], and then you carry on with your eternal generalizations about blowing up - ungrounded - on Europe as a whole. It's mind boggling to experience this kind of 'logic' here on CofB&F.

Egon [ @EgonKuhn ], Let's have some fun - it's Friday, right!? I know on the distance personally, professionally the CEO of Backahill put there by the Paulssons - it's certainly not a coincidence - because he is a pure play, 100% distilled unreasonable, endlessly demanding, bad manners a$$hole, sucking every available kJoule out of everyone around him for his own benefiit alone - however, he may have changed since then by now, though. At a moment in time I said to my boss, when I asked to be relieved from him [the Backahill CEO] in another context , getting an 'Absolutely NO!, -Period! - Just do as I ordered you.' : 'Ok then, but do never place me in a room with him, I may poor this little fat gnome out of the window!' <which got respected> - - - o 0 o - - - Pretty cool to have such a guy sitting around on boards watching over the Paulssons - and my - capital!

Egon [ @EgonKuhn ], I appreciate the discussion here. Please see green box called 'Fam Paulsson', upper part of chart, with a line to box 'Backahill', with a line [11%] to a box called 'Wihlborgs'. - Yeah, the whole chart appears quite confusing, until one starts trawling through some of the companies, looking at them. You can call my approach a 'jockey stock approach' - trying to assess and judge who are competent and not inept. Backahill is an awesome private company, doing its thing mostly under the radar. The Paulsson family members are far from inept, to me. [ Link, Link ] No, Egon [ @EgonKuhn].

LoL! - Gave me a good laugh. - Bolded bullet points are great!

Thanks, Egon, Please also see CofB&F topic : The Swedish Corporate Real Estate Crisis [2022 to ?] Swedish menu card [] : - - - o 0 o - - - Now who are in control of their sch*iße, and who are running a semidead zombie business with big arm movements for borrowed money? SBB has basically disingrated midair after I opened the topic mentioned above, others are chugging along as if almost nothing has happened, nose in the track, others more or less wounded and weak. -It's a fascinating space.

You're right, Egon [ @EgonKuhn ], So, the question is really, what is [almost] dirt cheap, and what is really dirt? I'm trying to find out, over time. Eventually , over a period, I'll find out, over some time. [I have done the same with something as much out of favour at times as banks, it has [net] played out quite well, so far.] [This approach may cause some [minor] scars, but that's the Terms & Conditions of Trial & Error Approach here. [ I'm not even trying here to cover it it up as anything else.]]

I've started to get back to my Swedish Real Estate basket these days. Today I've got filled on a few shares today of WIHL.STO - Wihlborgs Fastigheter AB.

It doesen't matter here that you've lived in USSR, what matters here is you don't by now live here in Europe, with that said, to the contrary of @Loss Horizon [, also from USSR], if you have read all @Loss Horizons posts [, which I have].