Charlie Munger's Got a Billion Words of Wisdom

[Parsad]

Article from the LA Times on the Wesco Meeting.  Cheers!

 

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-perfin17-2009may17,0,713897.column

[Mandeep]

cool dude. I love how is so specific. Munger is the man!

 

I wish buffett would be as specific as that. He kinda hints at the stuff he likes, instead of bluntly saying "yes, I would buy this at this price."

 

 

[greg39]

At the Wesco shareholder's meeting Munger mentioned an economist who "writes like I think".

 

I didn't catch the name of that economist.

 

Did anyone happen to note that persons name?

[omahafloat]

I wasn't at the meeting but have attended 10 or so BRK meetings.  My guess is that he was referring to Paul Krugman.

[JAllen]

I wasn't at the meeting but have attended 10 or so BRK meetings.  My guess is that he was referring to Paul Krugman.

 

Why do you think that Omaha?  I can't see Munger agreeing with Krugman very much.

[kcipper1]

I wasn't at the Wesco meeting, but I know that in the past he has spoken highly of Greg Mankiw, a Harvard economics professor and author of several econ textbooks.

[watsa_is_a_randian_hero]

I wasn't at the Wesco meeting, but I know that in the past he has spoken highly of Greg Mankiw, a Harvard economics professor and author of several econ textbooks.

 

Yeah, hes good - one of my text books was by him.  He was also an adviser to Bush's white house the first term I believe.

[omahafloat]

i remember Munger saying he agreed with Krugman generally.  That may or may not be the case today.

[ExpectedValue]

he seems to like Krugman's writing:

How many people do you know who actively seek out opinions contrary to their own? Munger certainly does. For example, he said:

 

.take Paul Krugman and read his essays, you will be impressed by his fluency. I can't stand his politics; I'm on the other side. [Krugman constantly bashes Republicans and the Bush administration on the Op Ed page of The New York Times.] But I love this man's essays. I think Paul Krugman is one of the best essayists alive.

[greg39]

I would have recognized Krugman's or Mankiw's names as Charlie has mentioned both before

in various written articles/books.

 

I think there was a "Hauser" or "Mauser" somewhere in the name.

 

Can anyone who was there help out? Maybe the above jogs the memory.

 

 

[vinod1]

Could it be Martin Wolf of FT? He writes exceptionally well and is not ideological. By far the best.

 

Vinod

[Investmentacct]

Could it be Freeman Dyson? But I might be wrong since he is not an economist. Please check reply to Question #4 at below link about Wesco 2009 meeting notes from Gurufocus:

 

http://www.gurufocus.com/news.php?id=57199

 

[greg39]

Thank you for the link Investmentacct,

 

Is was at/about question 5 that he mentioned a economist who "writes like I think".