John Hjorth

A bit more BALD B.STO.

Ordered this book this evening. I simply need to understand more about what's going on in this market of olive oil. - - - o 0 o - - - Recently, life hasen't been as great for me, as it used to be. So, I have developed a habit of beeing increasingly and extremely nice towards myself. So far, I have developed a casual habit of spoiling my self now and then [read : Every afternoon, or every evening], to serve myself a dish with : 1. A glass of wine rosé, 2. In a separate small tiny bowl : a. Some Brie Cheese, chopped in not too big blocks, b. A couple of cloves of fresh peeled garlic, 3. And to that, in another tiny bowl : a. Some high quality Olive Oil, about 5 tea spoons. I have been thinking of adding some fresh olives from a glass to this composition, and asked by e-mail our housholds olive oil vendor about the matter, and he actually asked for a call back this evening, where both the Lady of the House and I talked with him about both olives in glasses and olive oil in general. We got no real tangible recommendations for olives in glasses, but I got a recommendation for a book describing the oilve oil market as it was some years ago [, I suppose nothing is changed to the better]. - - - o 0 o - - - - Noone of us really and actually know what we are using in our households for food preparation with regard to olive oil. - - - o 0 o - - - I was recommended to read this book : Amazon : Tom Mueller : Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil. [Personally, I have today ordered the book at www.saxo.com, which I as Dane prefer, - when possible -, to avoid the hazzle with overseas customs etc.]

Thank you for digging these documents up, @gfp, I consider Charlie Mungers thoughts about "passing on [what you haven't created yourself[-ves]]" highly interesting, from a generational planning / philosofical / practical purposes perspective. No matter what, the last shirt is without pockets. I will spend some time tomorrow reading this stuff and think about it.

Both of them, @Paarslaars!

@Eldad, This topic was started December 18th 2013, when CoBF was running on a Simple Machines software platform. A few years ago, a conversion to the Invision software platform took place. I speculate this poll [the poll related to this topic] - and a lot of other polls - for all of us - unfortunately went south in that conversion, so this is a condition we can only circumvent by starting up a new topic about it with a [new] poll.

I've tried today to look around a bit for this book, inspired by what has been posted recently here on CoBF about charty activities and Charlie Mungers will, where Andrew Carnegie was a major philantropist. I ended up being severely confused, because I could find so many editions of the book, that I wasen't able to distinguish them from each other. I do not recall having had similar experience earlier with any book since my start of investing. And the price spread I experienced today of what I see as first hand books was huge. Any help, - if any available - is very much appreciated.

Reading up on this topic by reading it up backwards. Then met this sentence by @Viking again. It was like if I was hit by a club over the head. The shortest great advice about how to live your own life in way so that by giving it attention now and then gets and adds some kind of structure with regard to those aspects that are important to you personally of life, and if you are a family member, to your spouse / partner, and to your kids, if you have any. Things in life may not turn out as originally thought and intended, so you may end up a place not expected. In that case, recalibrate course and direction, but never loose course and direction.

Thank you to @yesman182 for elaborating, and thank you to @gfp for elaborating on the reply side. Personally, I consider this topic to be about the omitted position[s] [It could actually be more than one] in Berskhires latest 13F-HR, filed at SEC February 14th 2024, containing this message [in blue font] :

@yesman182, Where and when? - What do you mean?

Yeah, Wow, indeed, Monday I'll make sure to get appointments, to get checked, that : I'm not in need of new glasses for my hearing, & that I'm not in need of new hearing aids for my vision.

He must have had the Pope on the phone, who may want to sell. Next : The Vatican City.

Can you see the twinkle in the eyes of Mr. Buffett? He is as fresh as a sea eagle in a headwind - and that at the age 93! I sincerely hope his voice does not let him down under whole session. - And then, right now it's like his speeding up, after - slowly - warming up!

The CNBC page streaming the AGM is now on a countdown.

When I wrote here on CoBF about the Swedish Real Estate Crisis evolving last year, I felt confident both CAST and BALD already then were in deep trouble with regard to their financings looking forward. It seems both companies so far have steared clear of troubled and unsuccessful refinancings, triggering forced and uncontrolled massive assets sales, however it's not over yet. The effort here for my part is over time to build a modest basket of a portfolio of Scandinavian listed real estate companies with a low entry point, for the purpose of holding it for the long term.

Right now, @Spooky, I really can't come up with a central and gathering place as a goog place to read and study where and what NICO is in the total Berkshire over time and today. It's almost as a shadow and very private holding company that is likely the most important subsidiary of the public and listed holding company Berkshire Hathaway. In my early years I did spend enormous amounts of time studying all kinds of Berskhire-related stuff, all while also building the position, and NICO did pop up basically all over the place.