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7 Jun 2021 Acquired Berkshire Hathaway Part III

“The way I think about it is just, should I need emergency liquidity for something in the near term, I don't know what that would be, that's what my Berkshire is.”

— David Rosenthal

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David Rosenthal
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preference
Recorded
7 Jun 2021
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Acquired

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…This is for your safety. This is in my safety portfolio. The way I think about it is just, should I need emergency liquidity for something in the near term, I don't know what that would be, that's what my Berkshire is. It's exactly what you're saying. It's my bad term, but the equivalent of a widows and orphans fund, terrible term. But the capital that I can feel good about—I actually thought a lot about this over the past year. I used to keep an allocation in just a fairly sizable allocation in cash for this purpose. Then I was like, well that's just stupid. To keep cash is just dumb. Again, not investment advice.…

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