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I think this is a valid point, old man will definitely not change his view on what an undervalued company is. Does not mean the BH will not perform, because BH is not only Buffett.
you really think he runs BH alone? Come on.
Yeah his age is concerning, I’m glad to hear he’s not going to be at BH anymore
$TLT is is a popular choice if the crash is caused by recession/recession fears. Oil/oil firms is good if the crash is caused by war or other inflationatory events. Gold is good if the crash is caused by stagflation but imo gold is overpriced atm. You can short stocks long-term if you expect a crash if you use no leverage or maximum 2x leverage, but keep in mind this is risky. Last option would be hedge funds, hard to access if you're not very wealthy but there are some "feeder funds" which allows the public to access the hedge fund, like BH Macro Ltd $BHMG. Personally I have $TLT and $BHMG atm
Completely made up. Just because there are some BH real estate signs around atl doesn't mean the old man is buying them up
He just got too big,too rich,too old to understand a newer company,my grandfather would be younger than him even if he is alive. When you are this rich you can talk shit , hypocrite or anything Most people living in this world can't even save up 1 day income of the treasuries he has on his company,he won this many years ago BH was underperforming with the SnP 500 for a long time but who cares,ehen you are this rich you can talk shit , hypocrite or anything. he already won the battle,the war,his money game life
10 at 10!! 
> I had my brother in law tell him his barber was giving him day trading advice Jesus, this was the type of thing that happened just before the Great Depression. Even one of my favorite summary videos about the Great Depression made that same analogy: https://youtu.be/LuEcoqizj0o?si=Ft7d4BH2mkXfYwCO&t=151
I've been a holder for over a decade now, not the longest period, but I'm a bit younger (mid 30s), and I love Berkshire, they've always did me very well. But, I do hate addressing the elephant in the room, _what happens post Warren?_, sure we are in a post-Munger phase, but Buffett is the Michael Jordan to Pippin, and I fear what the market, or remaining team, could do to a BH post Buffett. That being said, I always feel I'm being delirious and shouldn't fret, but it is something I think of regularly. Similar to what happens to the world in a post-Attenborough period. Guess thems is the way it goes.
I’ll look at it more tomorrow but I see your point. 99% of my options have been short puts, so longs are a bit new to me. That’s why I’m digging in on this. I guess what threw me off is that with short CSPs, I am tying up the whole $67,000 as collateral and the ROI doesn’t work out as it does with the long call scenarios. One thing I need to consider now is that I could, in theory, control 3+ times more shares, so the downside is 3x more negative as well? Goes down 90, lose $40K. Upside, SPY goes up 10%, calls profit $7200 vs. BH $6700. Big upside is SPY goes up 20%, call profit is $27,300 vs. $13,400. Guess if you’re really sure SPY will go up at least 8-10% it’s a much better play, but the downside is a lot to consider too. Good stuff, thanks for the detailed reply. As I mentioned, I’ll noodle this more tomorrow.
[Look for the bear necessities ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BH-Rxd-NBo)
LA is still mostly Alo. There's Vuori too, but it's mostly sold at Nordstroms or Bloomies which skew older. Their brick and mortars are in the valley, 3rd street promenade, and Hermosa 🤢. Alo has premium locations in BH and WeHo.
Buffet has also been going more cash lately so I wouldn't think too much of him/BH selling companies for more liquidity
I always wanted a cool job and now I got one. Thanks to BH tech I am now an options bagholder and cook fries now! Call 1-800-bagholder to get started today!
Fair I guess if you’re looking @ medical. My experience is limited to BH and regional at that.
You quoted the reimbursement rate for UHC related to BH visits, which is favorable compared to others. However, after you factor in their denial/no payment rate the effective revenue per patient from a practice side is below other big insurers.
What’s a “BH visit”? Thanks
As someone who works in healthcare, they also are the most likely to pay you nothing on a BH visit of the big insurers
So the s&p inclusion AH friday put a little jump for RH shares. Hoping it doesn't bleed BH on monday
I found an ETF I want to start investing in - to diversity a bit from the US - D5BH - Xtrackers MSCI Canada Screened UCITS ETF 1C 1C. Do some research on it's holdings. They're the largest and most liquid Canadian stocks. It's up 21% in the last year and 101% in the last 5 years. I'd say that's pretty good.
You could slowely build up short positions without leverage or maximum 2x leverage. Alternatively buy a feeder hedge fund like BH Macro Limited, there are not many of these around but BH Macro Limited has done quite well during downturns even 2008 and corona . If you got enough capital you could buy hedge funds directly instead ofc.
The market is a manipulated cesspool that’s sole reason transfer wealth from the bottom to the top. Buy VTI VXUS and don’t look at it. Entirely rigged: https://download.ssrn.com/22/01/01/ssrn_id3998202_code2497515.pdf?response-content-disposition=inline&X-Amz-Security-Token=IQoJb3JpZ2luX2VjEPj%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2FwEaCXVzLWVhc3QtMSJHMEUCIEsWEzJ3R9Nc0tZu0368A2rqPht%2BSFTDuYt8nU25QWneAiEAiA52%2Fk3zfX2soxVk3H9o2ZHLRjquYWKPLmbY5ou9TZYqvgUIYRAEGgwzMDg0NzUzMDEyNTciDHG6roNRgx0BNHoAziqbBWPHJn2IVzoELS%2FDQPk0NNeyKcHAfc2l6Vb%2BqeXlKwd6NjWTR783O%2B9RFbWCM9qV1vwX%2FPQjpCThgUxh7CdOR%2Fd9KNTkWKwz%2B1TTQzXXEL8ikh453UC9iQ%2Fif7yDK8EiLkQ6KpPLzVnGVklnYb55R0qE4BH%2B52pM%2FdLZ8LWTC%2FAY9B44GwoJsKcQEahOdGlDiP1gZWw4Q%2Ft%2BOZMwxdFwC63hU%2BF8MWRJ%2FXMcMVt5gQLIBS%2ByONPM3cA1IkWU06bDQSVsLv6wTOWc59y5ZR9tFSa%2Fz1BcYeuBtbjJh0EWAnDugzQcams9jW6xj4rsBFSb08APbEbqZsdw5vR88PWcyfzBIgNBOgIvSe9TaTADL3QDvbIWbesffEqTC2xfG1i%2FO3DKLFo%2FotEq8hz7vtsNwxjN9DGu%2FCp6vC0I1SJJGuBhe4Yha1VAWnUIjvdGDRDVY9WdWSZCNv2o3G8KtnKTEJLtKu33y9qeEGxvm9N679sg6dR3w4MgaBcQhci6jYn71S53JLi4lUPD5v5UlRWmEqvT3GPf0xRyjTeQiUjbxvgluURDsy%2FZp%2BsdZrOBFJ2Sv4UU4XYSCaK%2B3el%2BywOmGrblcA2ZRgzZylggq3JpShcEtQT1AutQvb%2B34RfLRR%2BRbKw2FHETIV8x3Y3HSvy1OLCAuybAkCd%2F4y9e6M0P0vSR0oSL6IgPbfL2d6EKzGTHLvK2ye4AhGOJyMTZzCWdfh99bQJssxc9ocUtiqxEabcqCrHegilDbYANXlB0tVne7SFeD3XqcS6oqFrqv7GF7Kiq2JZdBAyDGmhnKsZh6N59XhM%2BB7IT6DOivi%2FlMpByQNokNdvZeoJAqH0J2whadsIP9SyQh%2B%2BWvZHLmKrGB0rmLz2p9SoDQnrJ8swwhO3mxQY6sQEhmOg3xMgMQbjE19luAQE40sOYtgnrfBJaRo%2BnuL0K600Iw1qYXmw8%2FzfZHUV8vxfB1mMzlkwIgE6G8fbq2hqL7skzeNVMqMgzb5nFeMJxaG56WwdtDbtWUvU7LgpjS%2F9jCs6FtKInpYQ5nkQIJk6%2BB30L%2F12Ikg0bE8jt0azmPyOzsKOZshmWjEjctx2NUft%2FH5JESFVf%2BmO%2BxMkyswqSaeuc1qzUWPUJdu2BFjtg13Q%3D&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Date=20250904T170009Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=300&X-Amz-Credential=ASIAUPUUPRWEYPYLJW2O%2F20250904%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Signature=0bae39ed484f533b09041e90bba04008f8e1ee454c5c04e662add610ef3ebe32&abstractId=3998202
Again, I admire and respect the hell out of Warren, but yes, his last great decade was probably the early 2000s. Most other people now make the decisions on stocks to invest in or companies to acquire for BH. I think a big reason he didn't retire is because he's afraid the company will be relocated out of his native Omaha, Nebraska once he leaves (since only a handful of people work out of the HQ office) and that shareholders still wanted to read his annual letters and see him co-host the annual meeting with Charlie Munger. I'm glad he's stepping down. It was sadly painful to watch him speak at the last annual meeting.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025\_Tianjin\_SCO\_summit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Tianjin_SCO_summit) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLHfSB08BH0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLHfSB08BH0) The current SCO summit is not a conspiracy.... There are livestreams right now.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025\_Tianjin\_SCO\_summit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Tianjin_SCO_summit) The Tianjin SCO summit is not a conspiracy. There are livesteams. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLHfSB08BH0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLHfSB08BH0)
#My new name is OG BH429 LMAO🤌🏾
Thoughts on doing bearish call diagonals combined with bullish put diagonal. the risk profile looks good, great rr and a low potential loss. I'm guessing the danger is early exercise? [https://optionstrat.com/LWKYt9Kbq9BH](https://optionstrat.com/LWKYt9Kbq9BH)
Everyone technically has access to both classes. BH has avoided share splits because they wanted investors who hold the stock for a very long time (the A shares were not expensive at the beginning). They reluctantly created the class B shares, but set them to have fewer voting rights. From an investment standpoint, it doesn't really matter which you buy, but the company's leadership likes to keep themselves and their family and longterm friends in charge.
BH did manage to sell AAPL at near its ath. Been moving flat since
Over 90 % 5 % gold and a gold etf. 5 % in BH and reits and foreign stocks
After an ex-date is where the additional assignment risk comes, especially near the expiry and especially if the price goes even lower. Which is quite plausible given what the company is facing. BH and Tepper are in this for a much longer haul than a couple quarters. This isn’t an infinite money glitch. It’s just a loan with an unknown repayment amount and date that costs the RFR plus dividends.
warren buffet is retired? So did he really buy it? or did BH?
Of course he did… wouldn’t be surprised if BH wants to buy it for cheap and own the entire damn thing
eh, both likely to fizzle. UNH was clearly one of Buffett's lieutenants - their performance at BH has been meh. Just retail investors getting excited premarket.
Can we stop referring to WB? He retired... its just BH
The advantage is once BH socialize their position, the stock automatically goes up 5-10% in response. That is intentional as you find out their position once they are done buying and instant 10%.
No that’s just the on June 30th. It’s not what he or BH paid for it. Like come on.
This would cap the downside short term and allow UNH to fix their problems. I don't worship WB, but many do,. and it's a strong signal. BH have very strict criteria in their investments and if it passes their screening, it's going to react like it always does. Just check the last 5 major purchases.
BH literally asked the SEC to keep these purchases secret until today.
When's the last time he really threw his weight around and was the juggernaut in the room with bags of cash to make the deals? He sat out COVID crash and the 2022 tech bear market. The likes of Meta were ridiculously oversold and hedge funds and mega investors were buying it up aggressively but BH didn't seem interested. The markets awash with money and cheap access to capital. Companies are staying private longer as they have access to capital privately and even if they didn't valuations have kept up and would be eaten up on IPO. Berkshire thrived on being a lender of last resort. It's had to go fishing to get deals ( think of the Japanese trading houses deals) It's cash pile leaves it in a great position (earning decent treasury yields ticking over along with the dividends their holdings spin off)if capital markets were to collapse like the GFC again but who knows, have financial and capital markets, lofty valuations and capital made it harder for a Berkshire to utilise their cash asset?
I’m glad I posted, as the replies were interesting, and generally against this being a good idea. Obviously I think he’s a god …. the god … but I can’t believe that Abel won’t have learnt well at the knee of the sage. Also, I wouldn’t invest in one stock generally. Not Apple, Google, whatever … but I think of BH as a sort of index fund in itself, because of the varied businesses they own. And although there’s a lot of criticism of the cash pile, having cash when opportunity arises is rarely a bad thing in my experience. And they currently have enough to buy the UK if they chose to, although I’d strongly advise against it. Thank you for the replies 👍
honestly, no. BH is an ornament of a method of investing which may very well not ever serve investors again as they once did. Buying BRKB right now is like buying Berkshire's ghost - you'll probably get a 3-5% CAGR over the next 10 years, but there are better opportunities out there. Buffett set the pieces in motion that resulted in Berkshire because he saw better opportunities out there than the existing mutual funds in the 1950s and 60s. Follow his playbook - learn the rules, then break them.
Buffet is in his late 90’s and when he goes, BH is going to take a massive hit, justified or not. That’s what’s kept me from buying it.
Berkshire made it by extorting companies into buybacks and dividends - threatening hostile takeovers (like he did with BH itself), executive replacements and dumping the stock while trashing the company to basically execute them. Buffet is a vampire looking for blood bags that he can suck until a bigger one appears.
It should be pointed out that holding cash has a positive return. SGOV is yielding about 4.5% and there are money market funds that do about the same. It's not "dead money" by any stretch. Cash is a defensive position, which should increase or decrease depending on circumstances. It's been well publicized that Warren Buffet (BH) is sitting on a pile of cash right now. That's called "dry powder" for when the market tanks and things are on sale.
Great scalp if you got in at BH this morning.
Try selling BH. NOT easy. And you're still lending the company money with no return until you sell IF the share price happens to go up.
No, they are fucked without Buffet :D BH hold huge cash piĺlow and usd goes down, so it is obviously -14%.
Yeah that is a problem. Maybe they can just put in corn syrup lol. I still can not believe people buy corn syrup drinks. And I can not believe it breaks even let alone the greatest non-tech investment ever. Brand beverages have this weird power that can not be explained except in quarterly reports so hopefully that overshadows cost. Once I wrap my head around the power of brand beverages I can buy a holding company and be the next Warren Buffett lol. I wonder if you take out Coke what BH performance would have been. Back to SBUX, if they can ever get around the supply and price problems like with a new coffee bean that grows in a northern climate maybe it will be smooth sailing. Coke had a supply line that went mostly through Cuba and at some point said "I think we can solve all our problems with corn syrup". You and I would have said no way and sold everything. Buffett knew how people's brains worked way better than me. Buffett apparently bought into Coke in 1988 after the corn syrup change was implemented so maybe he was waiting to see if people stayed with it.
when tech stocks go up, BH goes down ... When Tech stocks go down, BH goes up. It seems that some people like to run with tech, but as soon as the Orange Baboon opens his mouth ... they take cover in what they KNOW is safe, like Berkshire. Once trump settles down and stops his TACO BS .. things might get back to normal. Until then, its all just chatter
I mean, they sold a metric fuckton of stock over the past ~2 years, seemingly expecting some sort of major drop or correction, and it hasn’t materialized. It looked like it was going to for a minute there, and BRK gained a bunch, but at the current point today to the best of anyone’s guess, all BH has done recently is miss out on a couple gangbusters years of market growth followed by this current period of neutral. Makes sense to me for it to be coming down from its peak for now.
Respectfully, BH’s balance sheet isn’t the size it is because they don’t know what to do with the money they make. Aside from the incoming uncertainty of a new CEO (a very qualified one at that), BH’s core business beyond investments in companies is insurance, a very uncertain segment of the financial products world. Their net revenue comes from insurance premiums through companies like GEICO, Berk Re, BHSI, etc. This surplus in cash allows them to not only purchase great companies at good prices, but also enables them to not rely on purchasing reinsurance in the property and casualty space (but boy, do they sell it). So in the event of a loss, they have that balance sheet ready to make the customers whole. This stable capacity in the P&C world is rare and insurance buyers and brokers recognize that value proposition. (Remember all the hate that State Farm got for bowing out of CA Wildfire?) Keep in mind there hasn’t been a major EQ in CA in about 40 years, and when it happens it will hurt carriers, that’s unavoidable. But BH will be prepared and their competitors will be scrambling. Sorry for the long note! -insurance nerd/professional
It [looks like](https://www.morningstar.com/stocks/after-earnings-is-berkshire-hathaway-stock-buy-sell-or-fairly-valued-3) it was overvalued as people bought it to hedge against Trump. I know that saying anything against BH is sacrilege, but I don't trust any personality-driven stocks.
Nah, I bought when BH-B went under $500.00, around $478/$482. Bags aren't heavy but still... Could've made money if I went Amazon instead.
I said nothing about his alleged philanthropy (no billionaire is actually philanthropic in any remote way) just that BH has been stockpiling cash and they have a history of doing so before large market downturns
What I alluded to was the team at BH
For those who want to ding on BH, let me tell you Greg Abel is an accountant and one who knows how to value companies, invest in them and generate returns, not some dingus who likes going over hypes and the next shiny thing. Besides investment houses like BH have a lot of fiduciary responsibility than your mom and dad’s hedge dung.
Exactly. BH isn’t nearly diversified as most assume. They do have diversity of sectors, but huge concentrations of their perceived best of breed in each.
BH is logically putting a ton of cash on the sideline and the S&P 500 is in the biggest bubble of the last 100 years.
The S&P500 is basically just juiced right now whereas BH is focus on long term returns. Returns will remain lower while they are cash heavy and wait out the economic uncertainty. This is something I'll be interested in looking at in about 5-10 years.
I've been messaging you? Lmfao, I asked you in your last thread and never again. Go ahead, post those sweet private messages where I messaged you a single time in private. I must have forgotten what the other fund was. Was some mediocre Vanguard or Pimco fund. I'm going off entirely memory, QRPIX and QSPIX share like the same name. Weirdo makes up a bunch of shit and copy and pastes whatever she took from BH and now claims she wants to bring WSB to how it was... Using ideas that aren't even in any shape or form your own? LMAO.
I think BH has done very well. Bitcoin and all crypto will have to fundamental change to ever be close to value investing. It is completely a speculative market. That doesn't mean money hasn't been made here or that it can't be made in the future.
Boomer BH portfolios are fantastic! I don't hate on those! My advisor is a big fan of them.
The diversification makes sense for your volume. A regular BH portfolio should be fine to start with. Higher (calculated) risk and higher reward is what I am looking for. Thanks again for sharing the wisdom.
BHs are great, this is like a BH portfolio but with higher risk and return. Nowadays, I've stepped away from most of this and just have my advisor handle this. It's really thanks to him that this portfolio flourished to 24% yearly CAGR, he diversified it way more than just stocks and bonds (as BHs would) and found cheaper borrowing rates. I only focus on my actual employment, tune out the financial noise and stay the course set by him.
He doesnt have it "cash" as on some bank accounts. It's in treasuries, meaning they are easily traded and give a reasonable yield. The real reason he isnt investing in companies is quite simple: he's not seeing large caps attractively priced, so he doesnt buy at all. Not justification for buying just for the sake of buying. Sure, he could buy small caps and possible see them double in value in one or two years. But the thing is, even if he buys some 100 million dollar company and it tripples in 3 years, that doesnt even make as much as a dent in Berkshire's value. It would be nothing more than a rounding error. A swing in BH's market value that happens daily during trading times in mere seconds. That's why he isn't wasting time on this. Dude's got the remarkable problem Berkshire is simply too big.
Beta doesn't imply less risk. It's a complicated measure that at the end of the day just tells you how sensitive the historical price movement has been compared to the index. You are comparing one company that has one management to 500+ companies from varying sectors that have 500+ managements. That alone should intuitively tell you which is more risky. Some black swan event that is company-specific could happen to BH at any given time that affects it outside the overall market. If something like that happens to any company in the SP500, it wouldn't really affect the overall index that much because the weight of the others would cover it. That's what diversification provides.
It doesn’t start with a V. Haven’t you heard? the large BH contingent, “set it and forget it” obstreperously insist large cap growth funds are risky, and recency biased performance chasing.
They've pretty much just closed down stores and pivoted to selling pokemon and pokemon grading services. They make their money right now from interest on their cash. If they pivoted to bitcoin with all their cash they'd make no money, so I doubt they bought a substantial amount of bitcoins. Cohen was also authorized to invest their cash in securities, and people said that he would run GS like BH, but AFAIK he hasn't bought any securities and it's been at least a year since they made that change. He also hasn't bought a single business yet either. He's really just content right now with closing stores and issuing shares.
Yes, technically all stocks can go to zero. However BH isn’t a stock as such, is it?
Unless something has changed within the last month BH was selling assets and sitting on a record amount of cash.
Can I ask a really dumb question without judgement? How would someone know when Warren Buffett buys? (I know he stepped down from his role, but BH in general still). Is there a site where you can see what certain investors / companies are doing? Thank you! (Just trying to learn more).
Most of the time these medicaid plans aren't serving the basic medicaid member. It's SMI, IDD, BH, etc. You can't cut funding to that our you'll have crazy people out on the streets.
Just in time to take the helm at BH!!!
Uh... BH is currently sitting on an absolute mountain of cash.
28% of the stocks owned by BH are from apple.
I think Geico is fully owned by BH and isn’t ‘stock’ just like See’s and DQ.
BH with his 300 billion in cash
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Aren’t you supposed to die before the BH conclave elects a new oracle?
BH has $350B cash on hand. You’d be shorting a company with more liquidity than god.
Buffet has always been a pretty open book about the internal operations of Berkshire Hathaway. For decades now, he has annually written "letters" which are book-length discussions about the current state of BH and it's holdings, along with history lessons and future ideas. A one-off comment on how one specific company has been profitable or not for them isn't going to move markets, when that data is public knowledge and he probably mentions it at least once a year anyway.
>honestly impressed with how well the company has performed over the years This sentence is killing me. One of the most lauded companies run by the titan of investing impresses *you*. Someone who asks such rudimentary questions. Buffett hasn’t stepped down yet, that’s later this year. Anyone who has been following the business world for more than 5 minutes knows that the people around him are running the bulk of BH while he remains as a guide/figurehead. He’s 94. He’s not doing all of this alone. I see no reason to panic about the company in the immediate future.
Think it will depend on the overall market. Opposed to Buffett stepping down. Most of the investors that have been in it for a while, will probably not sell as they know it has been in the cards for a while. It was going to be 1 of 2 or 3 people. It has to be an insider as that is just how BH is. Oh, and this is what he is proposing .. for the end of the year. He’ll get his way but sounds like he wants to end at 95 - birthday is August. So, he’s still around and running, maybe one less cherry coke but I think this is mostly a non-event for the long term’ers
His actions are clear: he sold off the majority of BH’s stock positions and stockpiled that cash in short term treasuries.
I listened to the entire BH meeting yesterday and Warren multiple times expressed serious concern about us monetary policy. Regardless of what you think about these people, they're in control now and we would do well to use that as a baseline for future investing. It's not an accident that Warren converted to cash just before the administration changed. This sub went wild with speculation about how he was just doing it for tax reasons and that he was going to turn around and immediately reinvest. It's just wrong and if you think we've seen the bottom of this thing, I've got bad news for you.
I work for a Berkshire Hathaway company and suggest you completely read his last few annual letters. First, every BH member company is operated autonomously with its own CEO free to make decisions and establish a unique culture. You would find zero correlation between GEICO and BNSF besides their earnings funneling up to the same holding company. As others have said, Buffett has largely delegated investment responsibility to the competent people under him. I think Todd Combs has been the biggest contributor there for years now.
I sold a huge stake in BH earlier this year in anticipation of his death. Also, the company is too large to grow like it has in the past. Even WB admits this.
Didn't read the link to the entire discourse. Was replying to the reference regarding 10% that had no context. I am sure BH has holdings in stocks that are impacted by more than 10% tarrifs even if not directly.
He's quitting. So the money cache will go to whoever ends up running BH.
Both statements can be true. Buffett has repeatedly stated that stocks are too expensive for his value-oriented investing and has been accumulating cash since 2022. He's most likely setting up BH to go on a massive spending spree when the economy crashes. https://companiesmarketcap.com/berkshire-hathaway/cash-on-hand/
The man was blessed with a resilient physical body. Being fond of fast food and not really into exercise, plus having a history of prostate cancer, yet still leading BH up to now. A lot of other billionaires wouldn't have survived up to his current age.
Ironically, in BH its Greg who os taking over
Plot twist: JD Vance goes to BH for a meet & greet, Buffett passes away in his sleep early Monday morning
At this rate of his cash accumulation, BH doesn't have to do anything and will become most profitable company on earth without having any sort of ups/downs in profit due to stupid things like tarrifs.
BH closed at an all time high Friday. I don't think he thinks it's going to get much worse. I think he likes to have dry powder so when he sees an opportunity he can move on it.