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What Warren thinks... - Apr. 14, 2008
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Here's one from yesterday. We bid on this particular issue - this happens to be Citizens Insurance, which is a creature of the state of Florida.
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And the worst thing you can have is models and spreadsheets.
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hey've got to, in effect, try to read the DNA of the people running the companies.
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Hell, they're all subject to the same thing.
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and all that
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So leveraging up was one hell of a stimulus for the economy.
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But when people panic, when fear takes over, or when greed takes over, people react just as irrationally as they have in the past.
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weightier
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parmigiana
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prognosis
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expounded
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repairs to
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repairs to
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'took some guts that I didn't want to match.'
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any large financial organization, the CEO has to be the chief risk officer.
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you should get greedy when others are fearful and fearful when others are greedy
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There's only two things you can do wrong: You can buy the wrong ones, and you can buy or sell them at the wrong time.
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Their investment strategy should factor in that (a) if you knew what was going to happen in the economy, you still wouldn't necessarily know what was going to happen in the stock market. And (b) they can't pick stocks that are better than average.
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And the only way an investor can get killed is by high fees or by trying to outsmart the market.
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I mean, if you don't believe that, forget about buying stocks anyway.
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like a good time to be greedy.
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Now, I don't invest a dime based on macro forecasts, so I don't think people should sell stocks because of that. I also don't think they should buy stocks because of that.
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deleveraging by its nature takes a lot of time, a lot of pain.
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it seems everybody says it'll be short and shallow, but it looks like it's just the opposite.
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The scenario you're describing suggests we're a long way from turning a corner.
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You've got $20 trillion of residential real estate and you've got $11 trillion of mortgages, and a lot of that does not have a problem, but a lot of it does.
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stack up against
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often in hammy poses (wrestling for his wallet was a favorite).
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stampeded
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You just make sure you own a piece of American business, and you don't buy all at one time.
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And they should buy it over time.
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ut $500 million in PetroChina
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a paper route.
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transformational
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bigamist
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efficacy
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incidentally
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I mean, two for two!
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There are significant limits to what regulation can accomplish
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People continue to do foolish things no matter what the regulation is,
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you don't want a capital market that functions perfectly if you're in my business
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they get screwed up often enough to make them even more fabulous
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Sarbanes-Oxley
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What Warren thinks...
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