Warren Buffett: "The trick in investing is to find businesses that are going to earn high returns on capital for an extended period of time."
"That's what happened with Berkshire. The long period of time gets to be very important b/c those doubles later on are very big numbers."
Something hit me.
We were traveling to Lugano from Lucerne, and we missed our connecting train. The next train was 1 hour later. One hour of wait. Nothing to do. We cursed our luck. We dipped back into our phones. And the next time we checked the clock, it was just 15 mins to go. Internet poured an hour full of content into our empty glasses of time.
I realised there is no waiting now. No boredom. Time just passes. Itโs like sleeping, or being in a coma. The passage of time is invisible. Almost like fast forwarding life towards its inevitable end. It shortens life. Isnโt this the most dangerous yet painless disease. Scary.
Charlie Munger: "Everybody is willing to hold stocks at higher price-earnings multiples when interest rates are as low as they are now. I don't think it's necessarily crazy that good companies sell at way higher multiples than they used to."
"On the other hand, I didn't get rich by buying stocks at high price-earnings multiples in the midst of crazy speculative booms. And I'm not going to change."
(Daily Journal AGM || 2021)
๐ฎ๐ณ India just found what may be the Moon's most valuable real estateโฆ
Deep inside the Faustini crater near the lunar south pole, ISRO's Chandrayaan-2 radar has pinpointed a 1.1km zone containing the strongest evidence of buried ice ever detected.
This promising reservoir sits directly beneath 4 permanently shadowed craters.
This patch of ground could supply drinking water, breathable oxygen, and rocket fuel for future missions.
A permanent Moon base stops being science fiction the moment you solve the water problem.
India may have just done that.
Source: Bloomberg
@aravind Lol. This is utter nonsense. When the USD itself has undergone inflation, why does the INR need to double down and lose another 50% in 15 years?
Why canโt it be the other way round?
It appears that the zero enrichment poison pill killed the Islamabad negotiations yesterday. We have 9 more days in this cease fire to fix this, but we must pursue our goals not Israel's.
Trump's redline has always been no nuclear weapons for Iran, not zero enrichment. Iran agrees with this and has not sought to develop or obtain a nuke since 2003 but needs to retain the ability to enrich for their "not Saddam but not Qaddafi" policy to work.
This makes negotiations between the U.S. & Iran workable as the dispute is on levels of enrichment and monitoring.
This is a threat to Israel getting us to do the heavy lifting in the regime change/decapitation war they want.
Israel needs us chasing every trace of uranium in Iran because that ensures we stay engaged militarily in Iran, because how do we ever fully make sure Iran can't enrich without taking out the regime?
This is the recipe for an endless bloody war or supporting/turning a blind eye to Israel using a WMD on Iran.
Restrain Israel, get a deal, open the SOH, focus on saving our Republic, not playing empire.
Donโt think itโs Netanyahu. Iran couldnโt be targeted because it was escalating - bombing Infra of other gulf countries. They did a ceasefire and clearly say that Lebanon is not a part of the ceasefire.
That still doesnโt give Iran enough legitimacy to target Infra targets in gulf. At most they can target Israel.
Hence - the ceasefire was only to box the damage to proxies and redirect the escalation to certain pockets.
The war has been expanded horizontally and controlled vertically - as far as escalation goes.
They really want to inflict as much damage as possible before actually signing for peace. No wonder Iran is skeptical of everything.
All of those countries that canโt get jet fuel because of the Strait of Hormuz, like the United Kingdom, which refused to get involved in the decapitation of Iran, I have a suggestion for you: Number 1, buy from the U.S., we have plenty, and Number 2, build up some delayed courage, go to the Strait, and just TAKE IT. Youโll have to start learning how to fight for yourself, the U.S.A. wonโt be there to help you anymore, just like you werenโt there for us. Iran has been, essentially, decimated. The hard part is done. Go get your own oil! President DJT
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