Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Buffett's New York Times Editorial.

I've been asked to Link Warren Buffett's recent New York Times editorial where he indicated he was buying US equities. Here it is.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/17/opinion/17buffett.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=warren%20buffett&st=cse&oref=slogin.

Buffett is the prototypical long term investor so short term gyrations don't seem to bother him at all. Even so I figure he's down anywhere from 7-12% from where he made most of his purchases. Like India and the recent Time Depression article, we'll come back from time to time to see how he's done. Since I don't know what he bought or when he did his buying we'll use the S&P 500 open & closing average price on 10/16/08 to see how he's done. That price is 928. We'll check back on Warren in 30 days, 3, 6 & 12 months.