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2019 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting

Brown Advisory

Buffett praised Abel and Jain for their accomplishments and their knowledge of the businesses and work ethic, and invited questions for them as well. Buffett said the consumer packaged food business had gotten tougher because of changing relationships with retailers. He thinks about his two sisters as he writes.

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2019 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting

Brown Advisory

Buffett praised Abel and Jain for their accomplishments and their knowledge of the businesses and work ethic, and invited questions for them as well. Buffett said the consumer packaged food business had gotten tougher because of changing relationships with retailers. He thinks about his two sisters as he writes.

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Transcript: Ramit Sethi

The Big Picture

That led to the next three or four years of learning how to sell, how to create value, and not worry about selling out, but do it in a very ethical way. It’s not food. People smile because they go, wow, they never thought of it, most people when it comes to food. Do it my way. SETHI: Yes. RITHOLTZ: It’s clothes.

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Transcript: Kathleen McCarthy

The Big Picture

MCCARTHY: I’d back up actually a little bit further in thinking about how did I get there, because I don’t think it was very obvious actually that I would come out of Yale with an ethics, politics and economics degree — RITHOLTZ: Perfect really, right? I mean, look at this beautiful Bloomberg building with the food.

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We’re All Reasonabilists Sometimes

The Better Letter

Nearing 400 years ago now, Thomas Hobbes noted and accounted for a crucial difference between geometry and ethics: We disagree about and dispute matters of ethics routinely but geometry almost never. Liberals and conservatives alike react negatively to dissonant science communication. “It expresses who they are.”

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