Liberty

I've tried almost all of them including Opera and Lynx. My fave right now is Chrome.

I'm curious to know what makes you think that this kind of growth will continue in the future? What's special about their strategy? What is their competitive advantage?

Good read. Here's their first semi-annual report: http://www.goodhavenfunds.com/media/pdfs/GHF-Semiannual-f.pdf Here's video of the interview: http://www.bloomberg.com/video/73004342/

As long as the other functions are separate from the forums and optional to members here, they shouldn't clutter things too much or overload servers. But if everything and the kitchen sink is thrown at a single page, it could get bad. Agree to some extent. Keeping it simple and effective is best way to go. Adding some fundtions will be a good idea but it should provide biggest bang for buck in terms of utility else it better to not add many things just because we want to add.

Shift-Spacebar also can also help you navigate around. Spacebar in a browser is the equivalent of page-down, and shift-spacebar is page-up.

What's the URL of his website? Thanks.

They probably wouldn't make unfriendly takeover bids, but it doesn't mean that they wouldn't do deep value investing on the secondary market (cigar butts). This is one way to interpret "vulture investing".

What I'd like to see is a preference setting somewhere that allows you to change how many topics threads you see per page, and how many comments you see per page once you are into a thread. It would be particularly useful on the investment sub-forum so you don't have to drill down 5 pages to find something.

As long as the servers are always fast and responsive, I'll be happy! ;D As you said Parsad, any other changes have to pass the test of "will it positively affect the community here?".

I agree with Hester. This is just the political side trying to manipulate the market for their own ends.

I've put a hold on it at the library. Thanks for the suggestion guys!

Saw that. Not too much to comment about... He seems to be sitting in cash and way for big corrections to jump in a couple of big positions.

Great idea! It might be a bit hard to see for people who aren't looking for it, but I suppose we can bump up this thread periodically to raise awareness with new members ;D

Wow. I wonder if, on its own, the message that this sends could be enough to help the market drop further.

Thank you, I somehow missed that thread. Seems to be more about audio books than podcasts, but I'll dig around a bit and maybe I'll find books I want to read. thanks.

Off topic, but nice avatar berkshiremystery. I LOVE that book (Godel, Escher, Bach). One of my faves ever.

I have a lot of experience with this kind of thing. A fee of even 50 cents would dramatically cut down new members. Heck, you just add a few fields or a few screens to click through on a registration form and you'll cut down on the number of people who join. There's a huge psychological chasm between free and paid services, and even friction that might seem like it wouldn't matter does make a difference over time. I know it can sound counter-intuitive, but that's how things work online.

I've been going through the archives of Geoff Gannon's old podcasts and interviews lately, and I was wondering if any of you knew of other good podcasts on investing..? I usually prefer reading, but sometimes it's a nice change of pace to sit back and listen to someone...

I would pay the membership fee, no problem. What I worry about is that closed forums tend to stop attracting new members because with most forums, you have to be part of a community for a while before you realize how valuable it is, so few people would be ready to pay just to join. Who knows, maybe the best contributors have yet to join, and it would be a shame to keep them out. Maybe Parsad could set up a donation/tip jar? Maybe - as someone offered - he could move to a donated servers to bring down expenses? I just think we should be very careful about doing something that could make the quality of the community plateau or degrade over time.

Thanks Paul! Thanks Parsad! I missed you guys :)

Well, it looks like quite the reversal so far. Everything on my watchlist is green (except for LRE). BRK is up the most, unsurprisingly.

Japan down 3.3%, futures down. Should be another interesting day tomorrow...

A good indicator of market valuation would be the number of posts per day on this forum. I bet there's an inversely proportional relationship between the number of posts and number of bargains :)

I never thought I'd see BRK.B selling for $67. wow. Edit: Wow, BRK.B closed at 66.66. Nice number \m/

I'm not panicking, just wishing I had come into this with 100% cash :P But at least the businesses that I own stock in are mostly without debt and have lots of cash to do buybacks or buy underpriced assets, so in the long-term it should turn out well... Just have to be patient.