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Here is a start. for New Zealand https://teara.govt.nz/en/death-rates-and-life-expectancy/page-4#:~:text=Māori may have had a,of women was just 23. Māori may have had a life expectancy at birth of about 30. After European contact, however, there was a major decline in Māori life expectancy. By 1891 the estimated life expectancy of Māori men was 25 and that of women was just 23 for India https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/opinions/2022/12/2/how-british-colonial-policy-killed-100-million-indians Life expectancy declined from 26.7 years to 21.9 years. I’m done with this thread.

I didn’t explain anything because you just made stuff up. Life expectancy declined during and because of colonialism. edit by roughly 5 years from about 28 down to 23.

LOL I've heard the stupid old defense of colonialism before. I will be thanking the British empire when pigs fly. It happened over a much longer period of time but the total number of people killed by them was more than the Nazis and possibly even the Mongols. All the "infrastructure" was built to better control and more efficiently loot the countries in Asia and Africa and for nothing else. The only thing that could probably be said about them was they weren't always as evil as some of the other European empires. Good luck to people living in their fantasy where colonialism was a good thing.

We can definitely blame her for the concentration camps, murder, torture and other atrocities that occurred when she was Queen. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mau_Mau_rebellion You can choose to ignore what happened to your family but you don’t get to tell others.

I personally don’t really care about the crown/queen/royal family. Just wanted to say most of the world doesn’t care about the queen or anyone in the royal family. Also beloved would not be the term used by anyone with even a little bit of knowledge about the atrocities done in Africa while she was queen.

Disagree on the queen and the whole royal family for that matter.

Won’t you need it again next year?

I sold off most of my non core holding. Hope to buy at a cheaper price if the market panics.

I just saw them on the CNBC broadcast but I thought they looked and spoke much better this year than last year.

Anyone know if the Buffett/Munger squishimallows are only for sale at the meeting or also available online?

Is there a better option than IAT or KRE to buy a basket of these banks.

it’s not that different. nifty went from approx 6000 to 18000 nifty 500 from approx 5000 to 15000 In INR returns look decent in USD the returns have not been as good.

My issue with investing in India is the currency keeps losing value almost as fast as the stocks keep going up. Sensex went from 20k to 60k in the last 15 years. Currency went from 1 USD = 40 Rs to 1 USD = 80 Rs.

How many of those were Lou Simpson?

We have had a couple of auto claims and for the house we had a claim because of a water leak. No issues with the claim. All the claims were when company used to be Ameriprise(American Express). It was acquired by AmFam a few years ago. We have not had any claims since it was acquired though.

I’ve got insurance through Costco for 15+ years. Tried to find cheaper rates every few years or so and have given up. No one has been able match the rate we get.

In my opinion he got off easy and should have served jail time.

Pain level - 0. Down about 8-10%. Went into BRK and Cash in 2021. Now at 80% invested. Buying more every week and hoping for lower prices on BRK, COST, META, KWEB, DIS, JOE, Banks. Strong USD is also making international stocks very attractive.

Only guess would be bear market rally. I was hoping to buy more today and was out when the stocks dropped early. By the time I got back home everything had rocketed. :(. I've started buying individual companies last few weeks but am hoping for a drop to get companies I like at cheaper prices.

I don't get the complaints about the drop in the S&P. The only reason the S&P rose to 4800 was because the fed had low interest rates. The fed giveth and the fed taketh away. Market is not even back to pre Covid levels.

He didn't say warrants are worth 5 billion. He said if Berkshire exercised the warrants the shares Berkshire would end up with would be worth 5 Billion.

From the 1Q report Number of shares of common stock outstanding as of April 20, 2022: Class A — 613,707 Class B — 1,285,751,332 From the 2Q report Number of shares of common stock outstanding as of July 26, 2022: Class A — 599,924 Class B — 1,301,126,370 edit nvm I figured out my mistake.

Maybe my numbers are wrong but was it a 10 billion buyback in the last 3 months. Actually mostly in the last month or so

Recently went to India to see family. Stopped by London on the way back. No vacation home. Repeats/Favorites are Goa, Paris, Munich and the surrounding area, Hawaii. Must see places we haven't been to yet are North America - Yellowstone and Canadian Rockies via Rocky Mountaineer Train International - Italy, Spain, Japan, Egypt, Ngorongoro. If Cruising along the pacific side in September we found the Mexico cruise boring. Alaska cruise was soooo much better.

From the BRK Annual and Quarterly reports "Berkshire’s common stock repurchase program permits Berkshire to repurchase its Class A and Class B shares any time that Warren Buffett, Berkshire’s Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, and Charlie Munger, Vice Chairman of the Board, believe that the repurchase price is below Berkshire’s intrinsic value, conservatively determined." Buffett was buying back shares at $455K/A in Jan, $475K/A in Feb and $485k/A in March. I think Fair value of BRK is closer to $600K/A