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Market Mad House

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. Friedrich Nietzsche

daniel July 20, 2021July 20, 2021 American Express (AXP)Amex (AXP), American Express (NYSE: AXP), American Express Company (NYSE: AXP), American Express Shrinking?, Chase Sapphire Card, Credit Cards, Is American Express a Good Stock, Walmart (NYSE: WMT), Warren Buffett

Is American Express Shrinking?

Thus, American Express is issuing fewer cards than four years ago. The company’s market is shrinking before our eyes.

The Death Spiral

daniel February 3, 2020February 3, 2020 Are Newspapers Dead at Lee Enterprises?, Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) is easy to understand because it is Warren Buffett’s house of cash. Essentially, Berkshire Hathaway Makes Money from Dying Newspapers, Ghost Newspapers and Zombie Advertisers, How Low Interest Rates Keep Newspapers Alive, How Newspapers Survive, Lee Enterprises, Lee Enterprises (NYSE: LEE), Newspapers are Doomed, Warren Buffett, What Value do Newspapers Have?, What Value does Lee Enterprises Have?

Are Newspapers Dead at Lee Enterprises?

Buffett walks away from the newspaper business with $140 million in cash, and the potential to make another $976 million. I think this deal shows why Buffett is one of the smartest investors around.

daniel April 9, 2019April 9, 2019 Bill Gates, How to Increase your Knowledge, Increase your Knowledge, Jeff Bezos, knowledge workers, Twelve Ways to Increase your Knowledge, Warren Buffett, You can Increase Your Knowledge

Twelve Ways to Increase your Knowledge

Read nonfiction books. When you read for pleasure read non fiction. To make it easier to read begin with areas of knowledge you enjoy. Importantly, Gates posts lists of nonfiction books he reads at his Gates Notes blog.

Market Insanity

daniel September 11, 2018 Aspen Insurance Holdings (NYSE: AHL), Beach Front Property Values being destroyed by Climate Change, Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A), Berkshire Hathaway's (NYSE: BRKB) real estate and insurance businesses expose it to Climate Change., Climate Change, Climate Change is destroying Everybody’s Property Value – Even Warren Buffett’s, Climate Change is Devastating Insurance and Real Estate, Climate Change will increase Property Insurance Rates, How Climate Change is Changing Insurance, How Speculators can Profit from Climate Change, Warren Buffett

Climate Change is destroying Everybody’s Property Value – Even Warren Buffett’s

Companies are likely to pull out of reinsurance because of Climate Change. Under those circumstances, publicly-traded insurers are likely to go private or sell out to hedge funds.

Property owners will face rising premiums because insurance companies operating costs are increasing. Reinsurance firms like Gen Re and Aspen underwrite property and other insurance properties. Consequently, insurers will pass higher reinsurance costs onto policyholders.

In summary, sell the beachfront and forest properties now. Prices for such properties are likely to plummet as insurance costs rise.

Billionaires like Kimmel and Buffett are outliers in Climate Change losses. They can afford to take a loss on beach property, most homeowners cannot.

daniel September 12, 2017 Bill Gates, Business @ the Speed of Thought, Canadian National Railway, Canadian National Railway (NYSE: CNI), CN might have some of the Best Rail Routes in North America, CN Stock, Gates’ interest in rail, Hyperloop Value Investment, Is Canadian National a Hyperloop Value Investment?, Is Hyperloop the Real Reason why Gates is buying Canadian National?, Kansas City Southern (NYSE: KSU), Warren Buffett

Is Bill Gates right about the Canadian National Railway?

Bill Gates’ most unusual investment; at least from a tech geek’s perspective is the Canadian National Railway (NYSE: CNI). Blomberg

Market Insanity

daniel July 16, 2017 he’s scared of healthcare rising to 25% of the US GDP, Healthcare Costs, insane healthcare costs, Lack of a free market in prescription drugs., Medicaid and the Veterans Administration, Medicare, The federal government is barred from negotiating for drug prices under Medicare., The large number of Americans with inadequate insurance, The large number of Americans without health insurance, US healthcare costs, Warren Buffett, Why are American Healthcare Costs so High?, Why are Healthcare Costs so High?

Why are American Healthcare Costs so High?

Is Uncle Warren right would single-payer reduce healthcare costs? Maybe; remember we already have single-payer for seniors in the form of Medicare, and it does a lousy job of controlling costs. One reason for this is that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid are barred from negotiating for prescription drug prices.

Market Insanity

daniel March 9, 2017 Auto Sales in Europe Good, Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.B), Buffett is right, Fiat Chrysler (NYSE: FCAU), Ford (NYSE: F), General Motors (NYSE: GM), GM Dividend, GM is a Good Investment, GM is also making money, GM lost $20 billion in Europe, GM’s net income is $5.478 billion higher than it was just three years ago, GM’s Sales Dismal, Has Income Inequality Doomed Vauxhall and GM in Europe?, Opel, Should Investors Stay away from GM?, So is GM a Good Investment?, Tata Motors (NYSE: TTM), Vauxhall, Warren Buffett

Should Investors Stay away from GM?

General Motors has not made money off vehicle sales in Europe since the 20th Century; an analysis by Karain indicates, yet it waited until March 5 to sell its European Division. That division includes two storied brands Germany’s Opel and Britain’s Vauxhall, a European financing division, 11 manufacturing plants and an engineering center.

daniel December 18, 2016December 19, 2016 $6 trillion global market for energy, Alcator C Mod hot fusion device, BEV, Bill Gates, Bill Gates is cashing in on Climate Change, Bill Gates might Commercialize Hot Fusion, Bill Gates Organizes League of Billionaires to Fight Climate Change, Breakthrough Energy Coalition, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Climate Change, commercialize hot fusion, dream team of the super-smart and the super-rich, Is it Altruism for Profit?, Jack Ma, League of Billionaires, Next Generation Value Investing, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, stellerator hot fusion device, venture capital organization, Warren Buffett

Bill Gates Organizes League of Billionaires to Fight Climate Change

Bill Gates has become a real life superhero who is out to save the world from climate change. The Microsoft

Market Insanity

daniel October 18, 2016 Class Warfare, mass transit deductible, U.S. income tax system, UberPool, UberPool deduction, Warren Buffett, Why the US Government Considers Uber “Mass Transit”

Why the US Government Considers Uber “Mass Transit”

Believe it or not the United States government considers Uber “mass transit.” Americans can use federal tax credits to pay for a ridesharing service called UberPool.

Market Insanity

daniel October 5, 2016 Bank of America of (NYSE:BAC), BOA and WFC, DB Dividend, Deutsche Bank (NYSE: DB), Deutsche Bank has a lot of Money, How Deutsche Bank is like some Buffett Investments, Is Deutsche Bank a Disaster or a Great Value Investment?, JPMorgan CHASE NYSE: JPM), Value Trap, Warren Buffett, Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC), Why Deutsche Bank is not a Good Investment

Is Deutsche Bank a Disaster or a Great Value Investment?

Despite that a lot of investors are looking at Deutsche Bank because it has some similarities to two of the U.S. monster banks that Warren Buffett likes; Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC) and Bank of America of (NYSE:BAC).

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