by Mike ‘Mish’ Shedlock
Mish Talk
Following is a guest post by Roy Sebag, the founder of BitGold. The post originally appeared on GoldMoney Insights.
Buffet’s Math Trumped by Gold
“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.” Richard P. Feynman
Introduction
Every year, I patiently await the release of Warren Buffet’s Annual Letter written to shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway. Though I have “evolved” when it comes to macroeconomics and my understanding of monetary history, I still consider myself first and foremost a bottom-up deep value investor and view this methodology as the only logical method to analyze, invest, or short securities traded by market participants in a free market. As far as value investors go, Buffet and his mentor Benjamin Graham are not only the best practitioners of the craft but have basically re-invented it and evangelized it. For that, every investor should have and maintain great respect for Warren Buffet, Benjamin Graham and others including Charlie Munger, Irving Khan, Walter Schloss, and David Gottesman.