Weekend Reading
What Have Fourteen Years of Conservative Rule Done to Britain? by Sam Knight
“My life divides, evenly enough, into three political eras. I was born in 1980, a year after Margaret Thatcher entered Downing Street with the prayer of St. Francis of Assisi on her lips: “Where there is doubt, may we bring faith. And where there is despair, may we bring hope.” The Conservative-run Britain of the eighties was not harmonious. Life beyond the North London square where my family lived often seemed to be in the grip of one confrontation or another. The news was always showing police on horseback.…”
Berkshire after Buffett by Eric Platt , Eva Xiao and Patrick Mathurin
“When the legendary investor eventually steps down, management of Berkshire’s huge equity portfolio is expected to be transferred to Ted Weschler, who was hired after twice paying millions of dollars at charity auctions for lunch with Buffett in 2010 and 2011, and Todd Combs, who was recruited in 2010 after writing to Munger, asking to meet him....”
Apple Is Buffett’s Best Investment. It’s Also Now One of His Riskiest by Gregory Zuckerman
“Apple AAPL -0.99%decrease; red down pointing triangle is Warren Buffett’s greatest investment. It has also become one of his riskiest. In 2016, Buffett made perhaps the most surprising bet of his career. That year, Berkshire Hathaway BRK.B 0.71%increase; green up pointing triangle, the company he runs, began buying up shares of Apple—the exact kind of stock Buffett and his longtime partner, Charlie Munger, had long avoided.…”
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