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		<title>Buffet Watch 2009 &#8211; What Warren Buffet thinks is ahead for the Future</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 23:28:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yong-Long Lai</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I watched the Buffet Watch 2009 on CNBC a few weeks ago and thought it was interesting, especially with the market going being down over the past 18 months and the avalanche of negative economic data there might come a time where we stop to wonder what the richest man is doing at the moment. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I watched the <strong>Buffet Watch 2009</strong> on CNBC a few weeks ago and thought it was interesting, especially with the market going being down over the past 18 months and the avalanche of  negative economic data there might come a time where we stop to wonder what the richest man is doing at the moment.</p>
<p>Again similar to:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.yoursuccessclub.com/blog/2009/02/19/warren-buffet-questions-and-answers-part/">Warren Buffet &#8211; Questions and Answers &#8211; Part 1</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.yoursuccessclub.com/blog/2009/02/21/warren-buffet-questions-and-answers-part-2/">Warren Buffet &#8211; Questions and Answers &#8211; Part 2</a></li>
</ul>
<p>This is also about 90 minutes&#8230; feel very happy because it was actually a 3 hour program and they&#8217;ve cut out all the advertisement in the 7 Part below.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re not into watching the CNBC clips you can go read it from the <a target = "_blank" href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/29614072">CNBC</a> website. </p>
<p>I hope you enjoyed <em>Buffet Watch 2009</em> as much as I did!</p>
<p><strong>Part 1</strong><br />
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<p><strong>Part 2</strong><br />
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<p><strong>Part 3</strong><br />
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<p><strong>Part 4</strong><br />
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<p><strong>Part 5</strong><br />
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<p><strong>Part 6</strong><br />
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<p><strong>Part 7</strong><br />
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		<title>Warren Buffet &#8211; Questions and Answers &#8211; Part 2</title>
		<link>http://www.yoursuccessclub.com/blog/2009/02/21/warren-buffet-questions-and-answers-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2009 05:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yong-Long Lai</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Accumulator]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[MBA]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Warren really loves his Coke &#038; See&#8217;s Chocolate! Warren Buffet also quoted The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham (his mentor!) I guess this will be my next book to read&#8230; Hope you enjoy the last 5 episodes! PS: Here&#8217;s the link to: Warren Buffet &#8211; Questions and Answers &#8211; Part 1]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Warren really loves his Coke &#038; See&#8217;s Chocolate!<br />
Warren Buffet also quoted <a target = "_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060555661?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=yonglonglaico-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0060555661">The Intelligent Investor</a> by Benjamin Graham (his mentor!) I guess this will be my next book to read&#8230;</p>
<p>Hope you enjoy the last 5 episodes!</p>
<p>PS: Here&#8217;s the link to: <a href="http://www.yoursuccessclub.com/blog/2009/02/19/warren-buffet-questions-and-answers-part/">Warren Buffet &#8211; Questions and Answers &#8211; Part 1</a></p>
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		<title>Warren Buffet &#8211; Questions and Answers &#8211; Part 1</title>
		<link>http://www.yoursuccessclub.com/blog/2009/02/19/warren-buffet-questions-and-answers-part/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:29:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yong-Long Lai</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Accumulator]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just spent the last 90 minutes watching Warren Buffet answer a whole bunch of questions. Firstly, I never knew Warren was so funny, watching all 10 clips, I really enjoy his sense of humour! Anyways, back to Warren Buffet&#8217;s Questions and Answers session&#8230; In 1998, at the beginning of the tech bubble, Warren Buffett [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I just spent the last 90 minutes watching <strong>Warren Buffet</strong> answer a whole bunch of questions. Firstly, I never knew Warren was so funny, watching all 10 clips, I really enjoy his sense of humour!</p>
<p>Anyways, back to <em>Warren Buffet&#8217;s Questions and Answers</em> session&#8230; In 1998, at the beginning of the tech bubble, Warren Buffett spoke to a group of MBA students at the University of Florida. All I can say is that we are very lucky to be able to watch this today because if it weren&#8217;t for video cameras back in the late 90s and youtube we won&#8217;t be able to learn these teachings from Warren Buffet!</p>
<p>I&#8217;m going to post the first 5 here so that you don&#8217;t get overwhelmed sitting here watching all the clips for the next 90minutes like me. (I&#8217;m one of those people who can&#8217;t stop something until I reach the end)</p>
<p>Remember get a notepad and pen out, you&#8217;ll want to take some notes!</p>
<p>PS: Here&#8217;s the link to: <a href="http://www.yoursuccessclub.com/blog/2009/02/21/warren-buffet-questions-and-answers-part-2/">Warren Buffet &#8211; Questions and Answers &#8211; Part 2</a></p>
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<p>This one made me laugh (near the very end)<br />
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<p>Component of buying a business (Qualitative or Quantitative)<br />
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		<title>Warren Buffet &#8211; Bad News a Boon for Investors</title>
		<link>http://www.yoursuccessclub.com/blog/2008/12/20/warren-buffet-bad-news-a-boon-for-investors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2008 06:04:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yong-Long Lai</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Accumulator]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Economy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Wealth Dynamics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I came across this awesome article by Warren Buffet that everybody needs to read, especially if you&#8217;re a long term investor and like accumulating assets. Warren Buffet is know as a value buyer and in this article he lets everybody know his simple strategy. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did! The [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I came across this awesome article by Warren Buffet that everybody needs to read, especially if you&#8217;re a long term investor and like accumulating assets. Warren Buffet is know as a value buyer and in this article he lets everybody know his simple strategy. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!</p>
<p>The time to buy is when everyone else is too fearful to do so, writes <strong>Warren Buffett</strong>.</p>
<div id="attachment_250" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 310px"><img src="http://www.yoursuccessclub.com/wp-uploads/2008/12/warren-buffet-300x221.jpg" title="warren-buffet" width="300" height="221" class="size-medium wp-image-250" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" /><p class="wp-caption-text">'If you wait for the robins, spring will be over'...Warren Buffett says you can now get a slice of the future. PHOTO: Bloomberg.com</p></div>
<p>THE financial world is a mess, both in the United States and abroad. Its problems, moreover, have been leaking into the general economy, and the leaks are now turning into a gusher. In the near term, unemployment will rise, business activity will falter and headlines will continue to be scary.</p>
<p>So &#8230; I’ve been buying American stocks. This is my personal account I’m talking about, in which I previously owned nothing but United States government bonds. (This description leaves aside my Berkshire Hathaway holdings, which are all committed to philanthropy.) If prices keep looking attractive, my non-Berkshire net worth will soon be 100 percent in United States equities.</p>
<p>Why? A simple rule dictates my buying: Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful. And most certainly, fear is now widespread, gripping even seasoned investors. To be sure, investors are right to be wary of highly leveraged entities or businesses in weak competitive positions. But fears regarding the long-term prosperity of the nation’s many sound companies make no sense. These businesses will indeed suffer earnings hiccups, as they always have. But most major companies will be setting new profit records 5, 10 and 20 years from now.</p>
<p>Let me be clear on one point: I can’t predict the short-term movements of the <a title="Stock Market" href="http://www.yoursuccessclub.com/members/search?downloadSearch_keywords=&amp;downloadSearch_cId=133&amp;downloadSearch_sId=&amp;downloadSearch_mId=&amp;downloadSearch_aId=" target="_blank">stock market</a>. I haven’t the faintest idea as to whether stocks will be higher or lower a month — or a year — from now. What is likely, however, is that the market will move higher, perhaps substantially so, well before either sentiment or the economy turns up. So if you wait for the robins, spring will be over.</p>
<p>A little history here: During the Depression, the Dow hit its low, 41, on July 8, 1932. Economic conditions, though, kept deteriorating until Franklin D. Roosevelt took office in March 1933. By that time, the market had already advanced 30 percent. Or think back to the early days of World War II, when things were going badly for the United States in Europe and the Pacific. The market hit bottom in April 1942, well before Allied fortunes turned. Again, in the early 1980s, the time to buy stocks was when inflation raged and the economy was in the tank. In short, bad news is an investor’s best friend. It lets you buy a slice of America’s future at a marked-down price.</p>
<p>Over the long term, the <a title="Stock Market" href="http://www.yoursuccessclub.com/members/search?downloadSearch_keywords=&amp;downloadSearch_cId=133&amp;downloadSearch_sId=&amp;downloadSearch_mId=&amp;downloadSearch_aId=" target="_blank">stock market</a> news will be good. In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.</p>
<p>You might think it would have been impossible for an investor to lose money during a century marked by such an extraordinary gain. But some investors did. The hapless ones bought stocks only when they felt comfort in doing so and then proceeded to sell when the headlines made them queasy.</p>
<p>Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn’t. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value. Indeed, the policies that government will follow in its efforts to alleviate the current crisis will probably prove inflationary and therefore accelerate declines in the real value of cash accounts.</p>
<p>Equities will almost certainly outperform cash over the next decade, probably by a substantial degree. Those investors who cling now to cash are betting they can efficiently time their move away from it later. In waiting for the comfort of good news, they are ignoring Wayne Gretzky’s advice: “I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.”</p>
<p>I don’t like to opine on the stock market, and again I emphasize that I have no idea what the market will do in the short term. Nevertheless, I’ll follow the lead of a restaurant that opened in an empty bank building and then advertised: “Put your mouth where your money was.” Today my money and my mouth both say equities.</p>
<p>Warren E. Buffett is the chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway, a diversified holding company</p>
<blockquote><p>Buffet, W 2008, ‘Bad News a Boon for Investors’, The New York Times, 16 October, Financial Review.</p></blockquote>
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