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The week's question
In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: suaspontemark 🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: OT Krugman (and WEB) on Bitcoin
Date: 02/06/26 5:01 PM
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I ran a finance forum with over 3,000 folks in it, at work, before I retired. Young folks would often ask me "what do you think about [financial matter/investment]". This came up about crypto. Essentially I said that I have no interest in:

- a currency (for want of a better word) subject to wild swings based on the tweets of a mercurial, possibly drug using billionaire,
- a currency that takes 20-40 minutes to complete a transaction,
- a currency that seems to be eagerly accepted for drugs and dodgy porn on black markets on the internet, and
- a currency unusable for any real transaction...as in the last couple years (knowing the reaction would be of the "are you insane" type) I asked a car dealer, a real estate broker, and a general contractor if they dealt in crypto.

For the last one, as they say in a Christmas Story, they looked at me like I had lobsters crawling out of my ears.

Of course, these young people are gonna FOMO/HODL, regardless of what I said, so I told them that as I knew they were going to do this anyway, keep it to 5% of their investable assets.
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This community has written 21,448 posts about Berkshire Hathaway. The article-length ones it recommended most:
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