TMFGalagan

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TMFGalagan replied to the Berkshire Hathaway board. 8:30 AM

Re: Valuing the market

So, what kind of investors are these people?

The datapoint we don't yet have is how these investors will react if the growth in their high-growth stocks starts to deteriorate before the share prices recover to their past highs. [more]

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TMFGalagan replied to the Improve the Fool board. 5:07 PM

Re: Information Dissemination

Cajunblazer01 -

Thanks for your comments. I'm not Motley Fool higher management, but I was a contributor on the tax law video segment, so let me try to respond to that limited point.

I appreciate the feedback regarding the [more]

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TMFGalagan replied to the Berkshire Hathaway board. 9:26 AM

Re: OT: Interesting board policies

I feel that the neophytes drawn to the red hot flames of Saul need to be warned that investing without regard to price and value is a recipe for ruin. Of course they would never hear such fair warning on Saul's board because ... [more]

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TMFGalagan replied to the Berkshire Hathaway board. 4:10 PM

Re: OT I-Bonds for your excess cash

The Seekingalpha article makes some confusing statements. The cited 5.33% rate is actually a composite of the current 3.54% rate here that applies to the first six months for bonds purchased from May to October 2021:

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TMFGalagan replied to the Living Below Your Means board. 7:55 AM

Re: “You get so much food for $13!”

A different angle here beyond food quality is that it also seems you're paying a huge celebrity/influencer premium. I have no idea if these prices are right:

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TMFGalagan replied to the Berkshire Hathaway board. 7:10 AM

Re: A view of BRK

I always look forward to the day my weekly Economist arrives here in Maine. I'll continue to because
it provides me with wonder at how they get things so right.....and so wrong ;)

Every writer on the planet has pressure to [more]

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TMFGalagan replied to the Saul’s Investing Discussions board. 8:08 AM

Re: Why inflation (doesn't) matter to analysts

Which, in my view, is nonsense. If you're coming up with "future earnings" and not using inflation on those, then why would you use inflation to discount them back to today? And if you are using inflation on the future earnings, [more]

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TMFGalagan replied to the Macro Economic Trends and Risks board. 1:01 PM

Re: IRA inheritance tax law

I'd like to hear feedback on this idea.

Wendy, a few thoughts:

-- I assume "take that large IRA down at low rates" means withdraw. So you'd pay taxes. Roth IRA conversion would leave you in exactly the [more]

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TMFGalagan replied to the The Mongoose Chronicles board. 7:56 AM

Re: Understanding growth

How would you interpret what's going on here?

I'd interpret it as Cloudflare did its IPO in 2019 and issued a bunch of new shares, diluting private investors in favor of raising capital to enhance growth. MercadoLibre [more]