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Takeaways and Lessons from the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting 2023

This Week in Intelligent Investing

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The Benefits of Investing in Japan

Buffett gave a talk at a university and they asked him precisely this question basically you can borrow in Japan and yen at 1 percent why why haven't you made investments there. It's fascinating that it took that many years and really over multiple decades to say like yeah I know I can borrow for next to nothing but I got to find something that's going to make a good spread on that money with a lot of safety and reliability. The combination of his experience his understanding and the valuations available in the market all came together at the right time, he says. Buffett said it basically works out to one great decision every five years and those can be clustered but  over six years it works

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