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Cicero thanks for sharing experience. Were you required to obtain a foreign investor ID to set up the brokerage account? Were there any account minimums?

Which brokers have you all used to invest in the stock?

If you invest in a good audiobook subscription, you will be amazed at how much you can read during the crevasses throughout the day (shower, driving, brushing, right before bedtime etc.) It's like compounding - 15 minutes here and there throughout the day adds up tremendously.

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William Poorvu's books are great (you will actually be a better stock investor after reading them)- so are Frank Galinelli's is you want more on the financing part.

The analyst questions unfortunately did little to "add color" to the discussion; they were fishing for numbers to plug in to spreadsheets ("beware of geeks bearing formulas") Ditto for some of the journalist questions. Are these really the most important questions we should be discussing? Really? Half the questions were so long-winded the questioners themselves were stumbling over their words. A much better way to do this would be for shareholders themselves to vote for the top questions themselves in some social media polling format.

Met Mr. Kilpatrick in person at the BRK meeting. Such a wonderful gentleman who produced a wonderful book.

Mention was made that Buffett recommended this book at the BRK meeting today.

It would be nice if there were a rule that prohibited questions requiring one to recite from a piece of paper or a cell phone. Warren and Charlie were understandably having difficulty getting some of these long-winded questions.

You have to actually physically request the passes (send snail mail to Berkshire headquarters), and they will mail you up to 4 passes for free. For future reference, their turnaround is about 7-10 days.

Thanks, Jeff - hadn't yet explored Joshua's site but will check it out!

Ever since I started listening to audiobooks during the commute, my perspective on commuting changed drastically. When you get through 2 books a week just sitting in tap and go traffic, you can't help but feel productive.

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I realize that on an asset protection front, it is best to deal with lawyers - however, I would like to at least have some background in the area so I at least have some idea of what is being dealt with. the only seemingly good books I've found are the following: Asset Protection : Concepts and Strategies for Protecting Your Wealth - I've read this, but the book is from 2004 The ABA Consumer Guide to Asset Protection: A Step-by-Step Guide to Preserving Wealth On the Tax front - the only coprehensive guides I have really found are JK Lasser's guides though they do not really cater to learning tax efficiency #JohnMalone. What books/websites have you all found useful to learn these two big subjects? Thanks.

Newbie here - how long does it typically take for BRK to process and send back the passes by snail mail? Sending snail mail tmrw, just want to make sure I don't miss out (should I put a tracking no.?)