Last week we highlighted the weak performance of BP Capital's holdings since the end of the second quarter. Warren Buffett's holdings, on the other hand, have done extremely well. As shown below, Berkshire Hathaway's equity holdings as they stood at the end of the second quarter are collectively up 10.83% versus the S&P 500's performance of -5.25%. Berkshire's biggest holding, Coca-Cola, is up 6.8%, while his second biggest, WFC, is up 42.5%. Buffett has come under criticism many times when the market is rallying for not owning the big winners. When times get tough though, he always seems to have the last laugh.
The richest one percent of this country owns half our country's wealth, five trillion dollars. One third of that comes from hard work, two thirds comes from inheritance, interest on interest accumulating to widows and idiot sons and what I do, stock and real estate speculation. It's bullshit. You got ninety percent of the American public out there with little or no net worth. I create nothing. I own.
Monday, September 15, 2008
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