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    What skills and/or abilities are magic to you?

    The ability to speak to someone and make them feel like the most important person in the world. Some call it charisma and just have "it" - and it's a part of who they are
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    Berkshire Hathaway Isn't What It Used To Be

    Berkshire is a conglomerate that has been incredibly successful over decades. Buffett is a classic quality based, value investor who's stayed true to an investment style that he knows that works. It's hard to fault buying great companies at fair prices - and while he's missed out on some...
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    anyone have a blog or know how to start one?

    pretty sure they are using wordpress
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    anyone have a blog or know how to start one?

    Some friends of mine started one at Grumbling Gurus. They kind of have a do it yourself bent towards personal finance issues for retirees - they got the idea when one of them had a scare from, shall we say, an unscrupulous "financial advisor" and wanted to do something about it.
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    I am thinking about purchasing a treadmill, since we can not go to gyms.

    We use our elliptical regularly. It's a full body workout, but it's not hard on the knees and allows better support and balance.
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    World-Wide Recession According to the World Bank

    These next few years are going to be rough. A deep recession and a long slow recovery. The fed may be propping up the stock market, but a lot of people will be without jobs for a long time.
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    Berkshire Hathaway Isn't What It Used To Be

    Apples and oranges. Contra fund is a growth fund heavy in tech, which has been the best performing asset class / sector over the last 10 years. Berkshire holds moaty businesses that provide meaningful, predictable returns purchased at good values. While the valuations of contra fund's holdings...
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    Pains & Struggles of Investing

    My parents were good savers but poor investors - you might think the saving part is more important, and it probably is, but you can lose a lot of dough by buying high and selling low! From them, I learned what to do and what not to do. I also took a nature interest towards investing and...
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    What books are you into recently?

    Fair enough. It’s hard to describe, to be honest. The book is set in Latin America and follows the Buendia family for 5+ generations - or 100 years. It’s an exploration of all the foibles and greatness of people within the family members and townsfolk of their small solitary town. Word of...
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    What books are you into recently?

    100 Years of Solitude. Have been wanting to read this one for a while.
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    Insurance rates for 2020

    Curious what type(s) of solutions you think could work - it’s such a big problem but I don’t know enough about what alternatives may or may not be viable. Fundamentally the approach used for Obamacare - by making insurance mandatory - seemed sensible by spreading the costs among a wider...
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    Anyone Invested In Utilities?

    That’s helpful and very similar to what we have in mind.
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    Anyone Invested In Utilities?

    Yes, I understand the math. I think you should study behavioral finance - just because the rationality of the math is so clear to you doesn’t mean its so clear to, I don’t know, your significant others. If it is clear to them and they are on completely the same page, then that’s great - you...
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    And the shootings go on and on , and on, and on...

    And if we take your point one step further, if our society has so many deeply rooted issues, then maybe our society is not responsible enough to allow easy access to guns.
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