On Saturday, Bloomberg reported that Buffett had been in touch with the administration officials recently to discuss the regional banking crisis.
The recent collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank has had significant ramifications for the banking sector.
Buffett has a history of assisting banks in crisis, using his financial strength and investing expertise to restore confidence in the struggling banking system. He’s a champion of the billionaire class, reports Business Today.
Buffett also has a reputation as a humanitarian, but no one should confuse that with this situation. He will get richer, and we will all pay.
Buffett sold 91% of his stake in USB in Q4. Won't be a terrible trade to rebuy 30% lower. pic.twitter.com/2igpBRcdDS
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) March 18, 2023
Lots of speculation that’s turning out to be true.
The Private Jets arrived in Omaha in multiple groups. Sometimes they landed at almost the same time. Did Buffett schedule some meetings with different groups of CEOs every hour? Number of Jets arriving: five at 10 am (est), three at 2 pm, five at 3:30 pm, five at 5 pm, six at 6:15 pm, and three at 7:30 pm.
There could be a billionaire vacation paradise in Omaho that pops in March.
A large number (>20) of Private Jets landed in Omaha yesterday afternoon
Jets flew from HQs of Regional Banks, Ski Resorts & DC
Did Buffett just fly all the regional bank CEOs into Omaha & offer a deal to SAVE the banks?$BRK.B$WAL, $PACW, $FRC, $ZION, $KEY, $FITB, &more
— FuzzyPanda 🇺🇦 (@FuzzyPandaShort) March 17, 2023
Mid-Size Banks Need Bail Outs
Reports over the past few days indicate midsize banks are wobbly.
According to Axios, a coalition of mid-size U.S. banks is calling on the government to insure all deposits for the next two years, in the wake of Silicon Valley Bank’s emergency rescue that insured all of the firm’s deposits regardless of size.
The Mid-Size Bank Coalition of America sent a letter to regulators arguing that a temporary suspension of the FDIC’s deposit insurance limit is necessary to ensure that smaller banks can navigate the current banking crisis, Bloomberg reported.
The purpose is to halt the exodus of deposits. Elon Musk endorses the idea of avoiding a run on the banks. Axios also reports Buffett may bail out regional banks.
It might be necessary; who can say? It would be better if they weren’t reckless investors. That includes failed ESG investing.
Does the Big Guy get 10%?
Warren Buffett whenever there’s turmoil pic.twitter.com/JmaJcxIlNY
— StockMKTNewz – Evan (@StockMKTNewz) March 18, 2023
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For what this is worth,
and at the risk of being called crazy…
a few years ago I calculated what percentage of gain Buffet had to make – on average per year – from the time he made his first million to the time he made his first Billion.
I don t have the numbers handy, they are probably in my old computer that is gathering dust in another room, but I could do it again.
but if memory serves, he would have had to make at least 20% gains per year
which, if you know anything about the stock market or about investing money, is IMPOSSIBLE unless you have inside information.
Neither the Dow Jones, the S&P 500 nor Nasdaq grow by 20 % every year. They usually grow by less than 5 % per year.
No one gives 20% per year on mutual funds or dividends or certificate or whatever things one invests in.
The rare ones that give high dividends make the stock price go down and that almost cancels out your dividend.
The only way somone can make 20% and more every year and quickly turn his one million into one Billion is by benefiting from insider information.
or look at this instead
he was worth one million by age 30 and then 5 years later he was worth 26 Million; that is a steady 20% gain per year, every year…which is impossible without cheating.
his fortune has grown that way for decades
yet ask any expert if anyone can make 20% gains per year each year and they will say that is impossible without cheating, without having insider information.
Sorry but luck does not explain it, and high IQ does not either.
Genius level IQ people cannot see the future, they cannot tell you which stocks will give 20% next year and be right every year for 40 or 50 years, that is impossible.
There is nothing in the finance world that gives you a steady 20% per year each year for decades, it does not exist.
Bernie Madoff had average returns of 15 % per year. And he was cheating and died in prison.
If anyone has information about Warren Buffet that I am missing please provide it, until someone does, I am 99.99% convinced Buffet cheated.
That reminds me of Lance Armstrong, who for 7 years seemed to have won the Tour de France without cheating, everyone thought he was simply a super human… and then one day we discovered he was using strong steroids and other chemicals.
I am sorry but Buffett getting 20% gains per year each year for like 40 or 50 years has to involve some cheating.
I made a few mistake above, I was typing too fast.
to go from 1 million to 26 million in 5 years he had to make a steady 200% gain per year not a 20%
a steady 20 % is impossible , so imagine how impossible a steady 200% per year is!
I repeat, with his Ponzi scheme Bernie Madoff gave an average of 15 % to his customers
and that was considered too high which is why he was investigated.
how do you explain that Buffet gets 20 to 200 % every freakin year ???
in a lifetime of trading a person can be lucky a couple times and see their money double, quadruple or even turn into 20 times what they invested.
But those are things that happen maybe once or twice in a lifetime, not every year steadily for 50 years.
Only some form of cheating can garantee returns that are that magical every year for 40 or 50 years in a row.
I completely agree!