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This “may” be a version of me admitting in 2023 that cat videos exist and are very cute, but since it is a long essay

This “may” be a version of me admitting in 2023 that cat videos exist and are very cute, but since it is a long essay

You can run your PA as you see fit. We would suggest this is your second largest position as is ours. This recent presentation does

Yes, that is the Principal at the far end as the moderator for an investment panel at the Markel Annual Meeting (Yes – please come

There is a relatively new top 5 Position. What is the value of the privately held portfolio? We paid for zero. The future remains uncertain

Verdad Research puts forth these boxes. It sums up to old school CFA stuff: you tend to get paid well in statistically cheap and you

This is from an X shareholder in CNX Resources we mentioned in a previous blog. “I was recently reading or listening to something – I

Get sucked into this “crazy” mentality which works for every industry but oil and gas. Own assets near the largest “users” of natural gas in

WB is running around Japan meeting his “Big 5” Japanese investments and raising nearly free capital to fund it, which is another neat way of

We were not remotely involved in this as an FYI. But if we were simply repaid for every dollar lost in a situation where it

Said another way – bank blow-ups are garden variety stupid. The collective “we” rarely change. Said at least one other way, Man is a deterministic

We have written numerous times about the degradation of what constitutes “earnings.” We are talking decades. But excluding compensation issued via stock vs cash is

…if you are thinking about spending literally trillions of dollars on a new policy imperative. A Recent conference clip from Seifollah Ghasemi, Chairman, President &