Cutting off the Cash; and Paying More Than Buffett

Stacy Summary: Good morning! Hope it’s a nice spring day where you are. Or a nice autumn day for those down under.  And, re: cutting off the cash article, I believe Max has been making that suggestion for four or five years now . . . ?

210 thoughts on “Cutting off the Cash; and Paying More Than Buffett”

  3. Ingrid

    @Crummy
    Whatever the world agenda is, Israel just wants to exist as a nation without threats of being wiped off the face of the planet. If other countries want to hold onto the coat tales of Israel to get what they want, so be it. If the US or other countries back off from Israel, Israel will continue with or without their support. The Jewish people have never gotten support from any other nation in the past, so why would they worry about the present? It’s all about looking at history. Sadly, it keeps on keeping on……….

  7. Daniel / Istanbul

    No way, shock, horror. Buffet’s own company considers him a better risk than his government. Although, if the US defaulted, wouldn’t that jeopardize the Oracle’s strategy of basically investing in American interests, and monopolistic firms ,in a period when the central bank didn’t bother with trying to control asset price inflation?

    “After Moody’s Corp. went public in 2000, Warren Buffett’s holding company, Berkshire Hathaway, invested just under $500 million, making it by far Moody’s largest shareholder. At the time, Moody’s was a stodgy bond-rating company that, together with Standard & Poor’s and Fitch, enjoyed what amounted to a government-backed monopoly on issuing investment ratings.”
    http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-02-12/the-sins-of-st-warren/

  8. zmoore

    Ingie:
    “The yewish people have never gotten support from any other nation in the past..”
    What are you talking about? My grand father must be turning over in his grave, his yewish friends planted trees in the desert to support ishreal in his name.
    What about the ongoing (for 40+years) bazillons per year from Germany that no one talks about or the continuing gazillions from the US or congressional assisted donations.
    Even i think carter gave both egypt and ishreal billions to kiss and make up.

  9. Ingrid

    @ zmore
    You’re preachin’ to the choir. Everything that happened in Germany is happening now. I don’t understand why people don’t get it and this is coming from little ole me. A German Catholic.
    Here is a really interesting response to the “cut off the cash and Israel might behave artitcle.” Once it was posted, other postings disappeared. Hmmmm!
    “The Palestinians were offered all of the West Bank, Gaza, East Jerusalem and $35 billion in refugee compensation by current defence minister and the Prime Minister Ehud Barak.
    This was rejected by Arafat. No counter offer was made but was responded to by Palestinain violence. All of this was played out on international television so anyone who spins it otherwise is ignorant.

    The Palestinians were also offered a state in 1967 and 1948. It wasn’t the particulars of the state that were rejected, it was the rightful existence of Israel that was rejected.

    Who is Israel to negotiate with today?
    A)Hamas, a corrupt fundamentalist regime that seized power in a coup from the Palestinian Authority forces, is sworn to Israel’s destruction. The closure of the borders with Gaza by both Egypt and Israel is for the safety of their citizens. Hamas holds its poulation hostage to its corrupt and evil ideology of destroying Israel and spreading its evil into Egypt. The very existence of Hamas is only made possible by financial and military support of Iran, a country sworn to Israel’s destruction.

    B) If the Palestinian authority were given back their rightful duty to police Gaza, there would be no closure of Gaza and their people would be far better off. To twist this into a tale of Israeli and Egypt carrying this out without purpose is a lie.
    C) The Palestinian Authority and Hamas and entrenched in a civil war.
    D) What peace offering has been presented to Israel by the P.A.? Will they accept the same offer presented by Ehud Barak – if not what do they want – it has never been expressed clearly – if it has, provide the reference. To this date, the PLO has not removed its intent to drive all Jews into the sea in their constitution. To this date Palestinian children are taught to hate Israel and Jews in their school curriculums. Is this a concept of a people who crave peace?

    The episode with Joe Biden was a huge blunder by a nutcase politician, it certainly was not Isreali government/Netanyahu policy to embarrass Biden. Are there no nutcase politicians here or in all countries for that matter?

    But lets take the 1600 planned apartments for East Jerusalem for what it is – there are to be built in an existing Jewish neighborhood. The apartments are not to be built for another 3 years!!! This is the context of which the Palestinians reject sitting down with Israel to negotiate? That is pathetic.

    The Palestinians need to return to the negotiating table and stop playing games.
    Negotiate a deal with Quartet backing and the settlement issue goes away, end of story.

    What value has Obama achieved in his speach reaching out to the Arab world? Where is the
    criticism from this administration and others about Libya’s threat of Jihad against Switzerland for their ban of the mineret? What has Syrias overtones been to the USA after reestablishing our dipomatic ties there – they swayed closer to Iran. How many times has Iran spat in the face of this adminstation despite repeated offers of relations by Obama?
    Where is the criticism of this on this site and in the media? These are countries that would be our friends were it not for Israel? – what nonsense!!!!

    No relationship is perfect and they all have ups and downs; now is a down and it will pass.
    How many true friends does the USA have in the world at this time. Israel is a true friend.”

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