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The Wild Card – Oil!

David Nelson

The culprit was Friday’s ISM Manufacturing and Construction Spending reports, both coming in below expectations. I am confident that a combination of a born-again Fed and a growing effort to shore up our manufacturing footprint will bring the results necessary to return the United States to economic growth and prosperity.

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Shadow Consumption

Brown Advisory

economy is in its sixth year of expansion, the housing market is strengthening, initial claims for unemployment insurance have hit a 41-year low, and yet there is one group that seems noticeably absent from the party: the consumer. Richard Gamper, Strategic Planning Analyst, Brown Advisory. .

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Transcript: William Cohan

The Big Picture

RITHOLTZ: Everybody, General Motors had a credit on multi-big manufacturers there. And the grid had to be built out, and the power had to be able to be manufactured. And he was from Maine, but his uncle owned a shoe manufacturing business Lynn, Massachusetts. COHAN: A lot of did that. What happened with that? RITHOLTZ: Today.

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2018 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting

Brown Advisory

It doesn’t manage for quarter-to-quarter earnings, provide earnings guidance, or have budgets and strategic plans at the parent company, though some of the subsidiaries do. Berkshire doesn’t do strategic plans.) Berkshire is unusual among public companies. The people and the world will be different then.

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2018 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting

Brown Advisory

It doesn’t manage for quarter-to-quarter earnings, provide earnings guidance, or have budgets and strategic plans at the parent company, though some of the subsidiaries do. Berkshire doesn’t do strategic plans.) Berkshire is unusual among public companies. The people and the world will be different then.

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