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I attended this event today and here are some notes. As usual, this is not intended to be a comprehensive summary at all so I won’t get into every detail. Also, there may be mistakes. Reading through the many Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting notes, we know that many people can hear the same thing and…
Not to get too caught up with Leucadia and what the smart folks there say, but this “wind at your back” and “protein” talk reminded me of a nice little company that may also be a protein play. LUK bought National Beef partly because it’s a play on the rising consumption of beef around the…
So JCP tanked this week on bad earnings; it closed the week at $26.29/share. I think this is an interesting situation but haven’t done anything here yet, but things are getting interesting at this price. The Situation I assume most people in the market knows what’s going on here. Bill Ackman of Pershing Square along…
This is just some housekeeping stuff for LUK. National Beef is a major purchase and it may be at the center of LUK’s plan to turn it into a fortress entity; a cash flow producing going concern that will generate cash even in bad times and less emphasis on deal-making to create wealth. This is…
This comment by Tom Mara at the Leucadia annual meeting got me really curious about this guy, Arthur Berman, a petroleum geologist who has done extensive research on shale natural gas. I think the comment was that shale gas is uneconomical under $7.00/mcf over the longer term implying that when natural gas prices get back up there,…
So David Einhorn is in the news again lately and I do notice that GLRE is trading around book value so I thought I’d post an update on this. I posted before that GLRE is a way to get hedge fund exposure at book value. I did say then that this is the same as…
I know the annual meeting excitement today is in Florida (J.P. Morgan), but I went to the “boring” one today in midtown. Again, I am not the greatest note-taker and this is not meant to be a comprehensive summary although I tried to jot down most major points. There may also be some errors too,…
OK, so since I am a big Dimon and JPM fan, how can I not post something on this? So JPM held an emergency conference call to announce that they have $2 billion in losses and people seem to be going crazy. The Volcker rule crowd, of course, love this. “Told ya so!”. People keep…
2011 Annual Report As usual, the Leucadia National annual report is a great read. This is one of those annual reports that is never a waste of time. They made an exception in this year’s annual report to talk about the sorry state of this country’s politics. It says, “Usually we begin our Letter…
OK, so I was not there but since the information is all over the place on live blogs and things like that, I thought I’d just sum up some of the things I’ve read including things I’ve heard on interview clips on places like CNBC, Fox Business News and others. Most of the actual meeting…