Warren Buffett’s Real Estate vs. Stocks Strategy & Thoughts on Bitcoin

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3:54He did your play. Allegedly. Allegedly. What are we doing, man? He just posted. I don't know. Farmland owns 400 acres of farmland and stuff like that, but long story short, he said that he understands stocks better. it's easier it's a lot easier you said Charlie liked real estate a lot more than he liked real estate so what do you think about Warren Buffett pretty much saying that he prefers stocks over real estate like I said I mean it would assume if you look at his personal life that that's consistent with what he's actually saying there's two sets of information I've always said this the information that you give to the public to give the right answer or answer that's easy to understand and then it's the information when you talk to your peers or you're in a mastermind center.

4:51Homework assignment, go Google how many units or doors does Berkshire Hathaway own? That's the other trick. I don't personally own the thing, but I may have it in a trust or a trust of an ally or family member. Now, are stocks, do they have more data points? Easier buy-in, easier exit liquidity. easier to research hands down but the answer is always and this is what i love about amazon and that example we talked about the answer is all it's not one or another you want to own stocks real estate businesses crypto water air rights want to own everything the the day of i'm just going to be a linear investor and one thing that's over with because then you're not going to see the missed opportunity in something that is huge elsewhere.

5:44And BlackRock doesn't do that. BlackRock has ETFs and then Bitcoin got popular. They said, let me get that too. So is it easier to invest in? For sure. Are the returns higher? I know some of y 'all want to do a stock versus real estate debate. I'm not going to do it. I love y 'all because y 'all are my friends and I want to obliterate y 'all. But the answer to me is always to invest in both. or all.

6:11Y 'all like my politically correct answer? Yeah, both. Both. Both. And if you come to InvestFest, you will be able to hear how to invest in real estate, crypto, stocks, trade, and they haven't announced the lineup yet, but you know, there may be some other assets out there that you guys can invest in. That's a fact. Invest in yourself and go to InvestFest. Invest in yourself. That's the biggest investment you'll ever make. Yep. um okay well you think that berkshire halfway will jump into bitcoin now that he retired hello now this i would think okay if i'm replacing buffett which is a lesson in certain shoes you shouldn't feel but how do you turn down that job i think at some point he has to at least look if he wants to get a incredible return no matter what he does he will never be warned but what can you do to have an impact as the person who succeeded war an alternative asset with a high return just imagine if they would invest it when it was at 20 000 so if i were him i would definitely be looking at an asset class to invest in that can give me a higher return over a longer period of time for sure and Bitcoin looks like the best investment vehicle for them to do so.

7:32Yeah. So they're not invested in Bitcoin, but they're like Bitcoin adjacent. Adjacent, yep. Yeah. So they invest in New Holdings, which is a Brazilian digital bank that offers cryptocurrency. Yeah. And then they hold shares in Jeffrey's Financial Group, which has exposure to Bitcoin's ETFs like BlackRock, as you just mentioned before. So they're adjacent. But Greg April is, yeah, he's a successor based on everything he's done in his career thus far. He's kind of leaned toward the side of being, what we spoke about last week, a cautious investment. A very cautious investment. So that's been his approach.

8:09Can that change? We'll see. I mean, he's not in that frame of 90 years old, I'm sticking to my plan. Or he could be like I've learned from this guy and I'm going to continue his legacy down the approach of conservative investment because we've seen it pay off to the treasure chest of$347 billion. So it'll be interesting to see how it plays out. 1 % exposure for them and that fund over a five or six year period could get them a 700, 800 % return. Hypothetically, if nothing else, I know Warren has done a great job of acting like he doesn't know how to trade. His price, like if you just go homework assignment, go map out like his top 10 investments and see when he got in.

8:53they're usually close to the bottom of the market um so if anything he's learned him he's taught him how to do price discovery really well if they get in bitcoin at the right price like even if let's say if it fell to 61 000 or 62 000 which i don't think it will but if it did how do you argue to not buy it at that price you gotta have some exposure at that price you gotta have some exposure at any price. We said if Bitcoin goes in$80 ,000, you got to like it. If it's in$70 ,000, you got to like it. If you believe in Bitcoin, you have to have exposure at any price. Yeah. The part is the belief.

9:37Right? If Warren's stance has been that it's rat poison... You don't got to have exposure at any price. You got to have exposure at any price, or you don't have to have exposure at any price. Because if you don't believe in it, if it's at$10 ,000, you're not going to buy it. And that's what I'm saying. It's more than just the price. It's the actual belief. If the CEO is saying, yo, it's rat poison, we're not touching it. Well, Jamie Dimon said that it was a scam also. And they were buying that shit like crazy in England. Also, too. He's still the CEO. There hasn't been a successor. He's passing it down, so let's see what the successor does.

10:12It's his stance. Rat poison. We don't know yet. And even if you're not pro-Bitcoin, you can't not see that the value of the dollar is dying. It's a pair of trade. You would have to be long Bitcoin versus short the dollar. That's a fact. Well, you know, it's just math. We will see. We will monitor the situation, but yeah, people tell you things all the time. That's not actually true. Yes. Hello. An illegal alien from Guatemala charged with raping a child in Massachusetts. An MS-13 gang member from El Salvador accused of murdering a Texas man. A Venezuelan charged with filming and selling child pornography in Michigan.

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