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knighttof3 replied to the Falling Knives board. 2:11 AM

Re: Bank Stocks

Interesting. Currently I hold
WBCO
SBSI
TRMK
and I believe they all represent really good value as of now.
But therein lies the nub (or the rub, or something.)
They are all really small-cap, and they are banks, so bad [more]

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knighttof3 replied to the Berkshire Hathaway board. 12:49 PM

Re: Mr. Buffett aged 32 interviewed (film)

His returns that follow this interview:
1963: 39%
1964: 28%
1965: 47%
1966: 20%
1967: 36%
1968: 59%

Not to carp too much but I see only ONE return > 50% here. So much for that Buffettism.

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knighttof3 replied to the Berkshire Hathaway board. 9:41 PM

Re: Returns over next 10 years

if our leaders don't have the forethought (sp?) to help guide us, world wide, in the proper direction, business decisions etc will take a back seat to something that could be very bad.

Dr Steve

I see this sentiment [more]

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knighttof3 replied to the Humor and Urban Legends board. 12:05 PM

Re: Dave's irregular irreverent Caption This!

Damn that's one fine looking b1tch!

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knighttof3 posted to the Berkshire Hathaway board. 6:57 PM

OT: Bubblicious

Happy days are here again! Almost seems like a US stock can do no wrong.

Sorry for venting but as I lighten up on some slightly junky stocks (GLW, PAYX, THG, NOK) that have run up, I can't help but think that buy-and-hold is better, as they [more]

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knighttof3 replied to the Words, Words, Words board. 7:44 PM

Re: acquiesce, surrender

accommodate

Before you mentioned the neighbor and peaceful negotiations, I was thinking of more positive scenarios, like giving yourself up to God, or surrender to your true love. In which case, I don' think "give up to" has the [more]

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knighttof3 replied to the Words, Words, Words board. 2:47 PM

Re: Within

Agree with OP. Within (for discrete quantities like scores) should mean less than. Just say "8 points away from tying" if the score is 40-32.

For continuous quantities like distances, or at least those continuous within the [more]

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knighttof3 replied to the Berkshire Hathaway board. 7:20 PM

Re: BRK Leaps:

I'm shopping for a new car.

Jim

Buy a Tesla :-)

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knighttof3 replied to the Humor and Urban Legends board. 3:41 PM

Re: AverageJoe's 640th CaptionChallenge

Grandpa! The same in death as he was in life - people would cross the road to avoid him.

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knighttof3 replied to the Macro Economic Trends and Risks board. 6:53 PM

Re: Breakfasts Around the World

I wondered about the Canadian perogis as well. May be the poster visited a Polish family in Canada.

In any case, this gives me motivation to invest so I can retire early and visit all these places to taste all the dishes.

I have to [more]

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knighttof3 posted to the Falling Knives board. 4:29 PM

FKA: CHRW

Haven't added yet, still watching.
Company has a great history of returning money to shareholders.Stock price hasn't gone anywhere much in last 3-4 years. It acquired Phoenix last year, so may be changing a bit.
Down 7% on a 4c miss in [more]

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knighttof3 posted to the Berkshire Hathaway board. 3:43 PM

Free publicity for an idiot

So the churning currents of the annual meeting has thrown up a lot of sand from the bottom, including this: [more]

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knighttof3 replied to the Berkshire Hathaway board. 7:08 PM

Re: OT: What should I buy in IRA?

How far are you away from retirement? Since this is $80K, I assume you can afford to take some risks and not depend on it for your retirement.
If so... I'd rather not hold BRK or MKL in it, for lack of dividends. (Although I've been guilty of it, [more]

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knighttof3 replied to the Berkshire Hathaway board. 2:05 PM

Re: Position sizing

Grakf's list:

Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
Reckitt Benckiser Group...
McDonald's Corporation
The Procter & Gamble
The Walt Disney Company
PepsiCo, Inc.
Tesco PLC
Unilever plc
Yum! [more]

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knighttof3 replied to the Berkshire Hathaway board. 2:59 AM

Re: AAPL rebound, GE

Yeah, ever since I found out that BRK was beaten by VDC for the last 10 years straight, before adding up dividends, I am questioning why one should expose themselves to the specific risk of one stock (BRK) when they can diversify and [more]

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knighttof3 replied to the Berkshire Hathaway board. 6:49 PM

Re: AAPL rebound, GE

To be fair (though I don't know why we should be, I demand ), Buffett made both GS and GE investments not knowing that Bernanke would do prodigious helicopter drops, aided and abetted by Paulson and Geithner; so I assume he valued safety above [more]

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knighttof3 replied to the Berkshire Hathaway board. 7:57 PM

Re: Interviews with Combs and Weschler

Must be my dirty mind, but a truly terrible headline:

"Investors earn handsome paychecks by handling Buffett's business".

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knighttof3 replied to the Words, Words, Words board. 1:49 AM

Re: New words for fauxnetic alphabet

"" But neither is "oui" a spelled-out letter.
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only to my ears :-)
For normal people - "W as in Whee".

But that's no different that "oui" -- different spelling but [more]

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knighttof3 replied to the Berkshire Hathaway board. 10:53 PM

Re: Heresy

Jim,
do you have to make any adjustments for buybacks? Buybacks above the book value are going to hurt the book value.

Or is the theory that eventually they will show up as increased EPS anyway?