John Hjorth

Hi Jan, A belated and warm velcome here on CoBF to you. Very intesting stuff, that you are working on. Exactly this topic here on CoBF proves to me, that the newbies of the past are the great investors of the present and the future. So, please don't be a stranger here on CoBF going forward.

lol. Exactly also your post I was waiting for ... - with a lot of patience! - And now I see you posting this. [: - ) ] I think it's evident for everybody, who have read this board for several years, that you have done extremely well for your self, and your family and friends, in the private partnerships. [i remember ericopoly once calling the whole ting of yours a "gang" or a "mob" [: - ) ]. I hope that we can settle on your long story short from you here. ... Please! [ : -) ]

Started out with a small position in BAM today. The post by Uccmal in the BAM topic today, in the Investment Ideas forum, did trigger this.

Perhaps your best bet for this, Voodooking, is to order the book linked to by ValueMaven prior in this topic.

Fred Schwed has a great analogy in Where are the Customers Yachts There's no better lesson than taking some real money to the market and losing it. Reading books won't do. It's like trying to describe to a seventeen year old the difference between passion and romance. It's so true, longinvestor! - Thanks.

Fascinating stuff posted so far, since I put the defibrillator on the topic. [ : - D ] - The common denominator seems - at least to some extent - to be trial and error efforts, resulting in failure - to some extent, causing adaption & adoption - to get better.

longinvestor, My story of ignorance & stupidity [indebtness, no crisis fund, really, for a rainy day [or perhaps even worse than just one rainy day, plus "the trees actually just grow into the sky" - at least for me, they do! - Perhaps I don't have any money, but I know my bank has - Perhaps I did not think carefully enough about if they wanted to lend some of them to me, when I needed access to cash ... etc.] is already ready posted on CoBF here. [ ; - ) ] Ref. my post I'm linking to above, I had to stabilize my personal finances as first priority by getting a new job [that was not easy at that time, just post GFC], next I started to think about the future doing some projections in Excel continuing like I had done for quite some years. That scenario had absolutely no appeal to me. Talk about a poor retireé, with no freedom to move the ears just a bit. So it simply had to change going forward - to the better. The expected future outcome of status quo approach was simply not acceptable for me, because of my own mistakes earlier in life. Bond investing like descibed worked well for me pre GFC, when I had no time nor energy for studying. Now, I haven't regretted the change one bit, even considering the risk involved. It's a good platform being scared the crap out of [of what has just happened under the GFC], and at the same time hell bent to get in. Personally, I also think finding CoBF and joining the board has been instrumental in the change. I have learned a lot over the last almost five years here. Thank you to all! - for making me less dumb, and less poor. - - - o 0 o - - - The future: I have no idea what that brings for me ... Maybe one day we should have a topic here on CoBF about how to "retire" from investing? [here, I mean without having blown up, that is ...]

I'm calling this old topic - from 2015 - out for a bump & spin, because I find the question interesting and usefull as background information for reading posts by fellow board members. I hope you'll chim in, if you haven't already. - - - o 0 o - - - For my part, September 2012 @ age 54 [born 1958], for stocks. Approx. 15 years with bonds before that.

Calls for a smile, ourkid ... - and yes, compounding isen't linear.

Thanks for drilling this fact down, globalfinancepartners.

Energy.gov: Renewable Electricity Production Tax Credit (PTC). U.S Income Tax Credits for Berkshire the last three full years, ref. Berkshire Annual report, p. 65: 2016: USD 518 M 2015: USD 461 M 2014: USD 333 M Those figures from the Berkshire 2016 Annual Report may include other U.S. Tax Credits than the PTC. [i don't know.]

I suspect that it is true that no other country has density like Canada, except maybe Greenland (is that a full country?) lol, bizaro, it's a part of tiny Denmark, but with its own separate government. The Southern part of Denmark sends about DKK 4 B up there every year to keep the approx. 55 thousand citizen out of the Stoneage. Greenland is actually also on the US State Budget - the Defense Budget. US Air Force running Thule Air Base, pumping out a lot of USD, creating demand and economic activity. Now back to topic.

[Damn] Good topic your're starting up here, LC. It's important, so that we don't fall into sleep. Bloomberg [2016.08.03]: Buffett Made a Big Bet On An "In your face" CEO. [About Precision Castparts CEO Mark Donegan]. I haven't tried yet to do some kind of follow-up.

Exactly, Jeff. Canadian energy policy should be discussed in the Politics Forum here on CoBF, not in the forum for Berkshire.

Where is the drill down to this in a downturn, ladies and gents? -Let's take a historical look at the four US commercial banks for a moment [attached]. [Lots af flaws [dividends] connected to the graphics - however, I still think the point stands.] - - - o 0 o - - - It is - to me - all about sustainable, and profitable, business models, - executed the right way.

Kennedy Energy Park, Australia. A collaborative project between the local Australian company Windlab, American Tesla & Danish Vestas Wind Systems A/S.

Please keep this line of discussion as of latest in this topic in the politics forum. Thank you.

Bloomberg [2017.09.01]: Vestas joins Tesla to Combine Wind with Batteries.

randomep, Both, but primarily cash flow from operations in the subs.

Read today here on CoBF, that Berkshire is retrofitting wind turbines, to make them more efficient. That's good news. Danish Vestas Wind Systems A/S is a major supplier to Berkshire for wind turbines, and they have quite some experience with retrofitting wind turbines. All good.

Wow!, Jeff. Thanks for sharing.

Encore! [Attached, source: Twitter]

Offtopic: Welcome to CoBF, compoundvalue! Back to topic.

At least to me, very good points, Cigarbutt, I think we should look at what Mr. Buffett actually do, not what he says [also posted by several board members here on CoBF earlier], ref. the "Stocks are still cheap" interview recently, where it was evident, that he was actually speaking relatively to other available investment alternatives in the current interest rate environment.

Recently, I have started reading these. Here is a link to the last one, actually just released today.