Important Takeaways:
- Warren Buffett Selling $28.7 Billion in Stock Rings Alarm Bell Over Economy
- Warren Buffett’s firm Berkshire Hathaway sold $28.7 billion of stock in the first three quarters of 2023 in a move that some economists have interpreted as ringing alarm bells for the American economy.
- According to the company’s earnings, the Nebraska-based firm of the legendary investor and billionaire, known as the Oracle of Omaha, sold a net $10.4 billion of stock in the first quarter of the year. In the second quarter, it sold close to $13 billion of shares and bought less than $5 billion. In the third quarter, it sold about $5.3 billion worth of stocks.
- But it’s also, crucially, a sign “that a recession is right around the corner,” Hanke told Newsweek.
- “The money supply of the United States, broadly measured [M2], started contracting in July 2022, and has been falling like a stone,” Hanke said. “Since last year, the U.S. money supply has contracted by 3.3 percent.”
- According to Hanke, there have been only four periods in U.S. history—in 1920-21, 1929-33, 1937-38 and 1948-49—in which the money supply has had significant contractions.
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Revelations 13:16-18 “Also it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead, so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name. This calls for wisdom: let the one who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and his number is 666.”
Important Takeaways:
- Ominous Omen From ‘Oracle of Omaha’? Buffett Unloads Billions in US Stocks, Warns of AI ‘Atom Bomb’
- The 92-year-old financier has a penchant for sniffing out financial trouble, and has made it his hedge fund’s business to seek out opportunity in times of hardship. With US markets on edge over the prospect of more bank failures and Congress arguing about the debt ceiling, Buffett has issued fresh warnings about America’s possible economic future.
- Buffett said he was not surprised that the US has been facing a string of bank failures recently, given how complex the banking sector has become, and the “dumb” decisions made by some bankers.
- “The American public doesn’t understand their banking system – and some people in Congress don’t understand it anymore than I understand it,” the tycoon, whose company began a selloff of US bank stock from 2020 onward, but is holding on to a 13 percent share of Bank of America and a 2.8 percent share in Citigroup, said.
- Buffett also warned that bank runs are becoming easier in the modern world thanks to technology, with the speed at which information travels and the opportunity to withdraw deposits virtually meaning that nowadays, “you could have a run in a few seconds.”
- Buffett also offered a grim warning about the rise of artificial intelligence capable of replacing human beings in many roles, comparing the technology to the atomic bomb and saying it cannot be “un-invented.”
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