John Hjorth

I am personally of the opinion that the odium in MSM of UHNW individuals with an eccentric lifestyle and way of life is a part of the explanation of this observation of yours, @aws. Awful ticket selling, based on the general generation of envy.

@Spekulatius, Yes, It has been a not so well kept hidden sectret for decades, that there are US buoys scattered all over the Atlantic Ocean to track russian naval and submarine activity from the Russian North fleet out of Murmansk, especially east of NE USA, where Titanic did sink.

Yes, and that horse has already been beaten to death by Ravi : Rational Walk [June 15th 2022] : Buffett’s Philanthropic Record.

I'm not trying to appear a heartless person in this situation, what has happened is in every aspect terrible. It is about that it is for profit tourism, where - if this goes wrong , like here, it's not the provider of the tour, that has to pick up the tap. Unsustainable business model, and the CEO did not care one whit. Tax payers from several countries - tax payers in countries with something to contribute in the situation - have in reality been held hostages here.

May be, but he is not anywhere near carrying the total downside of his own actions and decisions. Totally reckless person.

What I wrote above is also the official answer from Denmark to the former POTUS, when he suggested USA to acquire Greenland in like "it's just another real estate deal", and afterwards my PM Mette Frederiksen had a hard time afterwards defending her initial reponse blown out by the press all over, because it was impulsive, as if she was saying "get away from me!", after this ol' man was hitting on her! But as mentioned : With an internal catch. And now we are full circle, if it's true she is a candidate for the next NATO Sectary General.

Thanks for asking, @Xerxes, And certainly a strategically important issue with what's going on in in the whole Arctic Area. It's like a barrel of powder. My personal stance is that the Greenlandic people have to decide for themselves, otherwise, the rest of Denmark, called Southern Denmark, behaves like any other state with imperialist propencities. But there is a catch. No "Block subsidy" from Southern Denmark to Greenland, if Greenland wants its own independepence. That number is around DKK 72,000 per Greenlandic capita right now, about DKK 4 B. So : "Now grow up, or now go grow a brain!"- You can't have the best part of both ways by cherry picking. Source : Sermitsiaq . My personal perception of such alternative is, that under such alternative, the Greenlandic society would start backsliding into its past, where it came from. That may be a wrong perception. USA is already in fact also helping a lot to keep things at the place up, by running the Pituffik Air Base, formerly known as Thule Air Base, thereby pumping a lot of money into the Greenlandic economy.

Here is how civilized nations behave during territorial disputes and how "war" is conducted around it : Between 1973 and 2022, Denmark had an ongoing and unresolved territorial conflict with Canada. Wkipedia : Hans Island Wikipedia : Whisky War Youtube : The Canadian - Danish Conflict To me, it has a lot more appeal to fight using flags and alcoholic beverages [here : Canadian Whisky and Danish Snaps]!

Thank you for some great posts to all of you keeping this "tire kicking" topic going. I was a bit in doubt if it was a good idea bumping this geriatric [<- Huhh!?] topic up. I haven't regretted one moment doing it. Humor, witt, life wisdom and self awareness, all in one fantastic cocktail to read here! -Also, today I actually learned something for me new here: Sanjeev [ @Parsad ] posted upstream this: I had to give up and give in understanding this phrase ..., ending up capitulating on it, asking the Lady of the House [, which certainly is very well below my dignity! - She is a translator by education].

You may call me crazy or what ever, I have a personal pocket theory that Crimea for this man is about the distance to the position : 44.419°N 38.205°E , which is what? - perhaps 200 kms? :

So much for that : Sweden : So much for that.

@Whensthepaintdry?, I suggest you to read the posts by @Dynamic here on CoBF.

Greg [ @Gregmal ], That comment about *... old people shit lol* is still hurting a lot! - It simply sucks dearly getting old!

Absolutely gruesome, ugly and meaningless seeing young men - Russian or Ukrainain - does really not matter to me! - loose their lives like this - In Europe, anno 2023! It's a disgrace for Europe.

@Luca, Yeah I know, but this topic is not about Swedish conglomerates in general, but about Swedish Investment Conglomerates, who are applying the special Swedish tax feature of "skabelonindtægt" [translated to English : "Template income"] while investing in listed companies, as I have explained upstream in this topic, where the company gets a deduction in its taxable income for dividends paid to its shareholders, while at same time not subject to tax on the received dividends from its listed investees. To me, a crazy tax practice, but I'm certainly happy to take advantage of it. Teqnion AB is not such a creature.

Perhaps I should add, that going totally berserk buying Berkshire in the early days for me [and my familly] simply has been a life changing condition for my family and I. Talk to me about the psychology of averaraging up! - Those were the days of picking the B below 90!

Thank you, Mike [ @cubsfan], I appreciate the advice very much, to get back on top.

The real joke here - or tragedy, or what ever you may chose to call it , Mike [ @cubsfan ], is that I still have to work with my inner me , to become a better me, a less jerky me, also here on CoBF. It's actually pretty embarrassing for me here, now that I think about it. Thinking further and deeper about it, I'm sure it's about I'm not getting kissed enough. From here it spirals into circles : Who want to kiss an old jerky man?

Same here [, as what @rkbabang said above, and I have posted my age earlier in this topic upstream, now years ago], right now 64], with a huge thank you, for getting a lot of help over time to get less dumb by being an active CoBF member, by reading my fellow board members posts here on CoBF since March 13th 2013. The first three years here on CoBF I spent almost all my time online here on CoBF, reading the board all the way back to the moment, when Sanjeev [ @Parsad] folded the board out! Something like 100 posts from me [low quality, mostly, I may add] within the first three years. My investment on that date [Paying the nominal CoBF registration fee, to get online access, later the Lady of The House joined too, as a matter of pure respect and decency for what Sanjeev [ @Parsad ] is providing to us all, ] is the best investment I've ever made, and there will never be a contender to beat that - It's simply impossible, for a cheapskate and whimp like me! For the Lady of the House and I, we are actually at about 20 times what I started with back then, not only because of the content of CoBF [which for sure has mattered a lot], but also because all that shit I know about how to handle capital in a family with regard to taxes, gifts among generations, etc. We are both of pretty modest origins, I would say. The Lady of the House retired officially in 2015, and I personally haven't had a paid job since that year, too. Snowballing compounded. Works absolutely great. If "old" / former acquaintances approach me with the question : " John, What are you doing today?", my answer is : "Nothing." - It always triggers an interesting conversation!

Respect for a very good post of yours, Mike [ @cubsfan ], We all have to pay up, to get this *thing* /*evil* to go away / disappear from the surface of the Earth. Under the auspices of NATO, or whatever. It is about freedom, or the lack of it. I have a personal friend, who has spent almost all his time , starting short after the war started, collecting [legally] funds for the support to Ukraine [millions of DKK], locally here in Odense [Kyiv is actually a friendship town of Odense, Denmark], and during the last cold period taking massive actions to gather and collect generators from everybody who was interested to contribute, taking care of all the logistics challenges related to getting those productive assets to Ukraine, too. In short : Personally I can't see a better alternative.

Perhaps time for a revival of this topic started by @rkbabang, now AGES ago. Makes communication among members here on CoBF easier, I think, and provides supplementary perspective on posts by fellow board members. Naturally optional, in respect of your privacy.

Ravi is obviously severely hit at the moment by the syndrome that haunts many long term Berkshire shareholders. The urge to do something. Sit on your a$$ investing doing nothing is actually very hard. Pretty good initiative here Berkshire related, if someone asks me, as alternative to start trading.

Those companies Chris Mayer is interested in are as such roll-ups, which are not Swedish investment conglomerates in the sense applied in this topic.

I ordered the book Thursday at saxo.com as I always try to do, to circumvent separate bills for customs and that includes a fixed fee for a customs declaration as such, that always upsets me, as I consider it a PITA, and it can distort the price of a book delivered to Denmark to the sky, relatively. Saxo coulden't deliver. In stead, I ordered it at amazon.de yesterday, which can deliver, but a bit pricier.

Today, I've gone back, reading this topic meticulously, including provided links in posts, of all posts after tuesday this week. I have to say It's great to have other CoBF members taking the time and energy beating the crap out of my personal cognitive biases, thank you. All I can say further is I hope this helps. - - - o 0 o - - - Here, it's hot, and the sun is shining from a clear blue sky! Stay cool!