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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: hummingbird   😊 😞
Number: of 21943 
Subject: Re: China fires across the bow
Date: 04/14/25 10:17 AM
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sure

-opens up all sorts of Pandora's boxes... who knows. the evry widgets we need to run our electric and water infrastructure is from china or elsewhere we piss off.

-traders looking to benefit from market chaos, its mainly algorithms , based on old verities.so cannot be trusted

-opens up crony capitalism for trump/family/entourage/loyalists (eg SS must now use X to communicate, starshield and PLTR embedded in military capability

-destruction of post ww2 alliances and trade systems.. who knows whats next ?

-brain and capital drain from USA is well underway, may not come back- loss of assets that underpin "american exceptionalism" a long time already
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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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