John Hjorth

Absolutely perfect disaster, really : https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114082877976878390

SD [ @SharperDingaan ], Are you still 100 per cent cash with the family capital, execpt for some unlisted real estate [, I suppose]?

@Pelagic, That is certainly appropriate in your post.

Ohh, my God!, what just happened at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue!

Barrons [February 28th 2025] : Bill Ackman Says Warren Buffett Is Too Conservative on Investments, Berkshire Will Be Run Better When He’s Gone From the article : lol!, as if Mr. Abel is cashing in ~USD 20 million yearly, all while being on constant paid vacation, by now.

Thought-provoking, Charlie [ @dealraker ], Reminds one of the madness with helicopter & fiat money in both USA and Europe during the pandemic.

@Paarslaars, Press on your username upper right corner, last menu point before 'Sign Out' :

At least interesting to us, if one does the naked - heads down - analysis, Eric [ @cwericb ], Extremely hard to discuss anything if one apriori is met by insults, name calling, deragoratory, foul and condescending language from a - the major - reprsenentative - of the United States of America. - - - o 0 o - - - There exist so many forms for opening discussions about things and for change in a construtuctive way.

Thank you for your last post above @Saluki, Even asking this question is, to me personally, a demonstration of lack of consideration towards your next - your neighbour. So, please think carefully about it, every time you're even just considering doing something that may eventually make you go totally broke, afterwards - at least for a period - depending on public subsidies. One soul - one vote. It's just crucial to democracry, - if Musk is about to have more than the weight of one in votes, who's to judge about that? The whole line of thinking about that is is just so out of line, fundamentally flawed - , here on CofB&F. To have a society, you need to have a set of rules of accepted behavior! It reads so trivial , basic simple,-and important! Yet people seem to forget about it - Please don't!

@Spekulatius, How is your personal perception, stance and assessment, of the above [perhaps] being fake and / or manipulated? - Thank you in advance. Question asked, based on me, again asking : 'What do I know?'

@Hektor, Please don't take this too seriously. It will eventually come to an end. Stubborn rumors exist that he has ordered his last shirt at his taylor many years ago, and every time he's presented with the very-very final version of the shirt, - he turns it down as a no-go, because the pockets in the shirt aren't big enough to contain his whole news media group. So, keep on seewing! Even Murdoch has adapted and adopted to a thing or two of Buffetts, trying to take it to the next level, ref. Buffetts comments about Berkshires jet years ago. - - - o 0 o - - - Morbid humor only advances while getting old, especially if one is not totally well and at good health. Everything else eventually going down, you name it : Muscle mass, testerone levels, libido, hair on your head emmigrating from your head to your chest and back, caused by eternal, relentless and constant gravitatiion!, and you name it! It's a human built-in psychological survival techniqe, plain and simple, because getting old really sucks, if one is not at good health.

This discussion right now going on here - in a way - has gone - by now, totally - overboard - materially, because of of me initiating it! - And let me here just say that I by asking Mike [ @boilermaker75] ] the question I did, triggered the communication. So, I triggered the communication and exchange, certainly not Mike [ @boilermaker75 ]! I hereby sincere apologize for that. It was unintended, especiallly towards Mike [ @boilermaker75 ]. - - - o 0 o - - - Here, it's now about 2:20 AM, and life is just so great, if one thinks carefullly about it.

Just so true, Hektor [ @Hektor ].

Yeah, it's true, @charlieruane, it's just so special. He cares more about us - the Berkshire Hathaway shareholders, - than himself. Somehow talking about USD 50 K is in this way, if one thinks about it , as coverage for 'postage and phone calls', it just gets so lame. But he decides how it is to be. Just take it in, and continue holding.

Somehow, I just waited for you to 'arrive' here in this topic, @Saluki! [Kind of internal joke between @Saluki and me, here.] - - - o 0 o - - - If one layoffs people with a [perhaps long] notice, while firing them, one naturally demand them to loyally do their job as if they were not laid off, within their notice period, because they are paid for doing so. Everything else is just crazy and stupid. In short, you're just a petty, shitty employer, public or private, doesen't really mattter, if you don't do your best to furnish the fired employee with the written statement, that the layoff wasen't caused of personal performance, and the handover of tasks to others was approached in an appropriate and constructive way. I have seen such bad things happen to many people, especially getting layed-off in owner-controlled businesses, my favorite business then to pull some strings at another client in need of somebody with these actual qualifications, without beeing pushy, just shortly presenting an opportuninity. Creating one contact - two people who come to appreciate you! - so, it's not a Win-Win, it more like a WIn-Win-Win. It's easy to do, by phone, but it has to be sincere, and honest.

After reading the latest exchange here in this topic - which I certainly appreciate, thank you, I simply can't help to ask this question to Mike [ @boilermaker75 ], for perspective : Are you in any of the Berkshire puts by now, and what is your perspective here, by now? [Maybe not a fair question from my side, but then again, I know you know you have the absolute freedom, to reply in what ever way that you may see fit, despite how the question is asked - - Thank you in advance.]

Thank you for sharing that video, Hektor [ @Hektor ], Very nice indeed to get things covered and what is facts clear cut to the bone. And by the way, now we're at it : The video also in the beginning contains the basic explanation from Mr. Musk of what this e-mail to all the public servants really is about. It's certainly not not what the main stream media have reported. I wonder if any of them even have tried to reach out to him, for comment, explanation or elaboration. It's basically one of the first things one recommend to do as advisor or management consultant, if you in the employeé handbook find a line about it's not OK to jump a colleague in the pretty dark space behind the copy machine, and the place is vast and need a spring cleaning. It certainly tells me a lot about how careful we all have to be with our sources for what we are dragging in here on CofB&F. So I'm happy that you led me to the video, Hektor [ @Hektor ]. - - - o 0 o - - - I hope one day a fellow American CofB&F member will explain to me how the US administrations payroll system is built and stuctured. I imagine it must be from the stone age, well almost, - at least from a time now long gone. Off topic - and that'll have to be another day, in another topic.

The mere existence here on CofB&F of the topic US franchises at risk to me, personally, & in the end, and eventually : Prevails the developments of the future to the better.

Absolutely awesome post here by you, @73 Reds A lot of the fuzz related to what's going on in USA and relelated to a broad currently is related to political non-acceptable, bad form communication, that is considered appalling, confrontative and trust destructive, and a simply, just, no-go. Crucial decisions about the design of the world order of the future [of all, mind you!] isen't really contained in the job description for the POTUS, anywhere. Bad form exists, and when it - 'by accident' - now and then, surfaces, it becomes very real. The professional life of the current POTUS would become so much easier, if he gave a just a thought of consideration - perhaps even two! - to this side of politics, to get along, and to get things done.

We [the US and Europe] need to get along, Mike [ @cubsfan ], It's actually that simple. Everything else will provide nothing but chaos and armageddon. Europe reaction late, sure, but not too late, by now.

It's absolutely imperative to yourself, and to your own evolution and development over time as an investor , that you insist on your own opinion, and follows whatever your ever electrical signals hitting your brain is telling you [and sorting out and ditching no go material], and act accordingly. What you'll then find out over time, is what risks and which risks are you willing to assume, to take on. To this day, by now, I personally think my own greatest handicap while seriously getting in to this game, was exactly being an accountant, by profession. Please keep your posts coming, @Pellom

I'm sorry for a late reply here, @Ulti, Somehow, your question to me, skipped my attention since you posted it, untill now. My answer to your 'why' : Because the ripple effects of the DOGE initatives, also outside the US, reads so brutal, i.e. hitting hard on people who have not won in the ovarial lottery. Certainly food for thought.

Posting this - primarily for our American friends here on CofB&F - just to show how European sentiment is in motion by now, - from Kyiv, yesterday :

I appreciate your above post, @Mephistopheles, To me personally, there is no way, we would see a peace here, without European peacekeeping troops actually getting involved, in guarding and defending it. Nobody trusts the word of Putin. Seeing American troops involved here would to me not really make any sense. The whole calamity is not a NATO related thingy, it's an European thingy.

Yeah, funny! Most of the days, the stock doesn't do squat, flat for days, months, some times, even years! -And then suddenly! ...