Parsad

Hi Folks, The dinner this year is at: Fairmont Royal York Imperial Room - Lobby Level April 19th, 2017 6pm - 10pm Tickets: Presentation only - $100 Presentation & Buffet Dinner - $200 We will also have a silent auction, etc as usual. Please buy your tickets at: http://www.cornerofberkshireandfairfax.ca/ - Left-hand side, scroll down half a page. or http://www.pdh-inc.com/investor-relations.html - Scroll down half a page. Cheers!

Clearing your browser history after closing all pages should also get you back as mentioned. It's still there and working fine...just checked. Cheers!

Hi Folks, Make sure you are booking or making plans to book for George's conference the morning and afternoon of April 19th...our PDH FFH Dinner is right after the same day! Cheers!

Make sure you get your tickets folks! They are going pretty quick. $100 - for presentation only $200 - for presentation and buffet dinner Tables for dinner are eight seats, so $1,600.00...you'll also get a reserved table with your logo. Sponsored tables of eight are $2,000.00...please contact me directly on this (sparsad@pdh-inc.com)...your logo will appear as an event sponsor on all printed material and powerpoint screens. If you have something you would like to donate for the silent auction or want to simply make a donation to Crohns & Colitis Canada, please contact me as well! Cheers!

+1! Keep sharing...very interesting! Cheers!

I thought this was a bittersweet celebration of the man...we all know that time is catching up to him as well as all of us. I agree with most, that this was as much a tribute to Buffett as it was to his wife Susie. I think the depths that Alice Schroeder fell in the Snowball, and how personal she made it after Susie's death...this was the narrative that Buffett and his family wanted and had expected from the Snowball. Cheers!

Hi Folks, We were having problems with Paypal’s button under a new account I set up for Premier. They said the issue was fixed, but apparently it isn’t. I’ve changed the button to the old one, so everything is working normally…I just bought 8 tickets myself to test it. Give it a try and let me know if you have any problems this time. Much appreciated! Cheers!

Hi Folks, The dinner this year is at: Fairmont Royal York Imperial Room - Lobby Level April 19th, 2017 6pm - 10pm Tickets: Presentation only - $100 Presentation & Buffet Dinner - $200 We will also have a silent auction, etc as usual. Please buy your tickets at: http://www.cornerofberkshireandfairfax.ca/ - Left-hand side, scroll down half a page. or http://www.pdh-inc.com/investor-relations.html - Scroll down half a page. Please contact me (sparsad@pdh-inc.com) if you have any problems with the ticket purchase buttons, as I was having a bit of an issue with them when setting up, but they seem to be working fine presently. Cheers!

Sorry folks, I was in meetings all yesterday and the day before, and didn't know what was going on. That gremlin is gone now, as are most of his posts. Cheers!

A game for the ages! I'm sure a lot of people turned it off after the 1st half...what a mistake. Cheers!

You're kidding me, right? His tax return would show non-public partnerships/investments, offshore investments, income from undisclosed businesses, etc that could indicate enormous conflicts of interest. That's why you provide disclosure and transparency. It's why a President should have all assets and businesses in a blind trust. If you worry about conflicts of interest and expect disclosure from CEO's, shouldn't the occupant of the highest office in the land with the most influence be fully vetted? This is just common sense! You check the credit history of loan applicants, criminal checks for teachers, etc...why would the President be exempt from equivalent scrutiny? And if Trump supporters believe this is irrelevant, then why do they concern themselves with what the Clinton Foundation was doing, or other examples of conflicts of interest, unethical conduct, fraud, embezzlement, etc. Cheers!

I have no problem with these threads...people want to talk about it, and as long as most people are civil, I think they serve a purpose. At some point though, I do lock them and we are nearly at that point. Have at it till midnight! Cheers!

Been there, done that! Ended up with Buddha kicking Jesus in the nuts, while Allah sat on a bean bag chair and laughed his ass off. The Pope was busy on the internet looking up "Dakota Fanning", Krishana was cooking a steak, and five rabbis were kvetching in the kitchen about how they didn't have any good mustard for their corn beef and rye sandwiches! Cheers!

Agreed! I think everyone has vented enough for whatever it's worth. Feel free to vent until midnight PST. I will lock it thereafter. Cheers!

Assume you are correct on all points...even though hundreds of thousands of protesters disagree with you, including a number of Republican party members, supporters and well-known Conservatives. You are telling me that this President's conduct so far, his compulsive tweeting, choice of words when characterising those that disagree with him, and the ridiculously inane and incompetent way he has executed this travel ban, doesn't worry you in the slightest? Top brass at the borders, Department of Homeland Security, foreign embassies, travel bureaus, you name it...had no idea what this ban meant and how to enforce it. Citizens, green card holders, children, etc were held at borders or denied entry. This was a major f**k up. Sears executes their retail business with more competency! Cheers! George Bush, Obama and Hillary's State Department bomb and kill thousands of Muslims with unprecedented drone strikes, destroy entire countries, slaughter people in Iraq, create starvation in Yemen, and create this entire refugee crisis to begin with, and yet I don't recall any mass protests about that . . . But now your main worry is about how a travel ban was implemented. Do you not see that perhaps your moral compass is a little askew? There were mass protests against the Iraq war. Secondly, how do you know Parsad wasn't bothered by all those wars and bombs? Correct! I was one of the few people who disagreed with going into Iraq...feel free to go back and look at old posts on the Motley Fool BRK Board. Almost no one wanted to say anything about it then. I had no problem with Afghanistan after 9/11, but I said going to Iraq was going to be a mistake. I've had alot of issues with U.S. policy in the Middle East over the last 15 years, and Trump isn't about to make it better...it's just that he's also finally making it worse at home as well! Cheers!

Assume you are correct on all points...even though hundreds of thousands of protesters disagree with you, including a number of Republican party members, supporters and well-known Conservatives. You are telling me that this President's conduct so far, his compulsive tweeting, choice of words when characterising those that disagree with him, and the ridiculously inane and incompetent way he has executed this travel ban, doesn't worry you in the slightest? Top brass at the borders, Department of Homeland Security, foreign embassies, travel bureaus, you name it...had no idea what this ban meant and how to enforce it. Citizens, green card holders, children, etc were held at borders or denied entry. This was a major f**k up. Sears executes their retail business with more competency! Cheers!

@No_free_lunch Finally some interesting news, Trump fired Acting Attorney General Sally Yate @ DOJ. Cheers! Because she wouldn't defend the travel ban. Cheers!

No one is saying that the U.S. is bad. People are saying that some of the governing President's actions and behaviors are bad, and they don't represent all of the qualities and values that make people want to clamour and fight to live in the U.S. Cheers!

What are the chances of being killed by an AR-15? I don't know, but 49 people were killed by an AR-15 in one night last year at Pulse nightclub. That's a lot more than were killed by refugees all year. Cheers!

Chances of being killed by a refugee: http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/30/politics/immigration-stats-by-the-numbers-trnd/index.html Cheers!

The way I distinguish between the two is that a "terrorist" attack is a broad attack against a country's entire population and ideology...not a specific group. A "hate" crime is a narrow attack against a very specific subsection/group of a country's population. Cheers!

More inclined to entrust him into the gentle care of the men in red serge. People are dead, & one of the gunmen turned him/her self in right after the shooting; implying that he/she was coerced. Perhaps a conversation that needs to happen. SD This wasn't a terrorist attack, but a hate crime. The shooter is French-Canadian and killed six innocent Muslim mosque parishioners. But of course, Spicer jumped on this before this came to light and used it to support Trump's policies. Cheers!

I respect Trump for this change today. He's not a thoughtful guy, so everyone should expect many mistakes from him in one of the most complicated jobs in the world. But in this case, he could have remained rigid and let the courts fight about it for months. Instead, he recognized the mistake and wasn't to proud to correct it. That's much more than I expected from him. Well done, Trump. Just a few hours earlier, Spicer was not apologetic about this at all on "Meet the Press". Whether it's a Liberal leader like Obama or a right-wing conservative like Trump...such ineptitude in how they planned and executed this whole thing simply was stupid! When you are blind because of your ideology (Liberal or Conservative) you are going to make stupid decisions. This was simply just an idiotic, xenophobic idea, supported by very poor execution. Not some grand observance that they mistakenly included "green card holders". The original intent was obviously to include them. Early on, I viewed this administration as something akin to the "Abbott & Costello" of politics and governance. Funny, very disrespectful, but harmless to the U.S. and world at large. Might even create some positive changes in business. I was wrong! When you get this type of blind faith in a world view, combined with executive choices with unintended consequences, you have a very dangerous man. The leash gets shorter and shorter every day! Cheers!

The headline should be: "Buffett attacks his self-created strawman." I've never met a serious person who is against legal immigration. Well, the new executive order on travel restrictions also includes green card holders for now. So those that have already gone through the legal immigration vetting process are now being held at gates and borders. Cheers! "...for now." A temporary measure until vetting system is put in place. Unfair you say? Remember, Obama did the same with Iraq refugees in 2011. Media outrage at the time = zero. http://thefederalist.com/2015/11/18/the-obama-administration-stopped-processing-iraq-refugee-requests-for-6-months-in-2011/ Obama didn't ban green card holders, so your point is irrelevant. Too bad this guy didn't have a green card. From 2011: "One Iraqi who had aided American troops was assassinated before his refugee application could be processed, because of the immigration delays, two U.S. officials said." Media outrage then, zero. Media today, hair-on-fire. And Trump's policies would have sped this up? Cheers!

it would allow trump to say that mexico is paying for it. which, i think, is all that he cares about. I think you will see some serious inflation either over the next four years, or in the ensuing years as a result of some of the policies that are going to be implemented. Alot of cash is going to flow into assets over the next few years from reduced taxes, repatriation, etc. Combine this with tariffs on imported goods, increasing national debt due to a lack of tax revenue and increased infrastructure expenditure, and you could see hyper-inflation at some point. Cheers! How does it result in inflation? How are Trumps policies different from Japan's. If inflation can be controlled through fiscal policy then why is the global economy stuck in the current funk. Trumps policies will strengthen the USD but I fail to see how inflation occurs. Thoughts? If corporate tax rates drop from 35% to 15% as he plans, where do you think that money is going to go? There is nearly $2T of offshore money...if he provides the one-time tax penalty of 10% and even half of that is repatriated back, where is it going to go? Currently, you have Ford, GM, Softbank and Carrier guaranteeing keeping jobs, adding jobs or investing capital into the U.S. under nominal pressure...where is it going to go? You are going to have enormous amounts of new capital chasing the same assets, including institutions, pension funds, private equity firms, hedge funds and family offices that are already reaching for yield. Combine that with increased debt from infrastructure spending and a reduction in corporate tax revenues...there is a reasonable chance you will see U.S. debt/GDP continue to increase. Massive amounts of capital chasing the same assets or businesses, combined with the U.S. supporting the dollar with higher rates as debt increases, means you could see substantial inflation long-term if tax revenues don't increase. Cheers!