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Strategies & Market Trends : Buffettology
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To: Tomato who wrote (821)12/27/1998 9:53:00 PM
From: James Clarke  Read Replies (1) of 4691
 
We're losing focus here. The ad hominum attacks should stop now - I'll second that. I've crossed that line before a few times too and always regretted that I couldn't kill the message later. This Chuzzlewit guy is putting a lot of time into these posts, and I for one, have learned something from him. I'm not sure I want this thread to continue in this form though. But stop blaming him - we're the ones baiting him.

And is Buffett the greatest investor of all time? What standard might we use for that? How about how much money you have less how much you started with. By that standard, WEB is in a league with only Bill Gates. I think any other standard is silly. Actually I think the whole debate is silly. Debating whether Buffett is a better investor than Soros just doesn't strike me as productive. We can learn a lot from both of them - they think in such different ways, their thoughts are on paper for all of us to read, and they are unquestionably the best at the game as they choose to play it.

Did anybody happen to notice the discussion of Berkshire Hathaway in Barrons today? How could the market be so temporarily inefficient on such a visible stock? There are all kinds of reasons, but the lesson should be to laugh at anybody who tells you that the market is efficient. It might be reasonably efficient 99% of the time, but then your challenge is to find that other 1%. When it happens, it happens so fast though. That was a 10-15% freeby, but its gone three days later.

Jim
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