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Berkshire Cash Hits A Record $397 Billion As Company Sells Most Stocks In 2 Years
Berkshire Cash Hits A Record $397 Billion As Company Sells Most Stocks In 2 Years
The head of Berkshire may be new, but nothing has changed in the business model.
In Berkshire's first quarter Greg under Abel, who succeeded Buffett in January as Berkshire's chief executive, the company on Saturday reported a higher first-quarter operating profit even as economic uncertainty weighed on several of its consumer-oriented businesses. The Omaha, Nebraska-based conglomerate built by Warren Buffett and now led by Greg Abel also reported a record cash level, reflecting continuing difficulty finding investments...
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Authored by Tim Donner via Liberty Nation,
No one who lived through it will ever forget Nov. 22, 1963, that day of infamy when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. It was the story of the century. Few will remember that, on that same day, legendary author and theologian C.S. Lewis also died; a story that would have ordinarily attracted front-page attention was relegated to a footnote on the back pages. The point is that timing is everything, and so...
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The European Central Bank kept its key deposit rate unchanged at 2.25 percent and said it was "closely monitoring" the inflationary impact of fresh conflict in the Middle East.
The ECB reiterated it won’t pre-commit but act one meeting at a time based on information as it arrives.
"Uncertainty remains high and the full inflationary impact of the energy shock has yet to play out," the lender of last resort for the 21 countries that use the euro...
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Mar 16, 2026 / Tyler Durden
"...The Entire Internet Has Doomer Fatigue"
"...The Entire Internet Has Doomer Fatigue"
Authored by James Howard Kunstler,
"I can tell the entire internet has doomer fatigue."
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The mysterious financial repo markets - which practically no one outside of banking understands (and even some banking insiders don't) - started showing some signs of stress recently (forward rates spiking: 1Y1Y SOFR has risen nearly 50 bps in two weeks, signaling growing concern among dealers and investors about future funding costs); though not near the level they did in September 2019, just before You-Know-What sucker-punched the world with...
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