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Buffett's Big Bet: $34B On 2nd-Largest Railroad
AP Report ^ | November 03, 2009

Posted on 11/03/2009 3:15:24 PM PST by Steelfish

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To: MaxMax

Well there are all of those Abandoned military bases that could be used as “Work Camps”.

All they need is a spur line.


21 posted on 11/03/2009 3:50:20 PM PST by SwedeBoy2
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To: Steelfish

Rand Paul is heading to the Senate. “Atlas Shrugged” is furiously debated on FR. And now a billionaire causes buying the railroad a vote for America’s future? I hope Buffet doesn’t go Galt on us. Well, Galt enough to quit funding liberals would be good.


22 posted on 11/03/2009 3:51:48 PM PST by dangus (Nah, I'm not really Jim Thompson, but I play him on FR.)
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To: Cheetahcat

“Hauling Chinese cars?”

Hauling all those cargo containers of Chinese crap to sell at Wal-Mart. That seems to be the only growth industry out there.


23 posted on 11/03/2009 3:52:01 PM PST by Jacob Morgan
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To: Nik Naym

One of his laments at the past 2 meetings (I own a B share mainly as my admission ticket) is the shortage of things big enough to buy with Berkshire’s cash.


24 posted on 11/03/2009 3:52:10 PM PST by posterchild (Endowed by my Creator with certain unalienable rights.)
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To: ez

Exactly! I just said as much before I read down enough to see yours.


25 posted on 11/03/2009 3:53:30 PM PST by dangus (Nah, I'm not really Jim Thompson, but I play him on FR.)
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To: woofer

Been to Gillette...installing the centrally controlled city wide irrigation on a Computer Oriented Programming System, and landscaping at Campbell County High School (home of the Camels)... gotta go to Humphrey’s for a steak, where “a good hump is hard to find” ....and I’m not kidding.


26 posted on 11/03/2009 4:09:10 PM PST by CIDKauf (No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.)
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To: evad

You gotta go out West once in a while...we haul everything by rail


27 posted on 11/03/2009 4:12:28 PM PST by CIDKauf (No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.)
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To: Jacob Morgan

Hauling box cars full of PVC pipe to install irrigation on all the golf courses... “Hey Charlie, I’ll meet you at the station to load the pipe on the truck”.


28 posted on 11/03/2009 4:14:26 PM PST by CIDKauf (No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.)
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To: Uncle Ike
Buffet already owned 22% of BNI, a position which I think was deeply in the red. His exorbitant offer will redeem his current position and just maybe set up the biggest market manipulation in a long time.
29 posted on 11/03/2009 4:21:15 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: Jacob Morgan

Hauling all those cargo containers of Chinese crap to sell at Wal-Mart. That seems to be the only growth industry out there.”

Bingo we have a winner.


30 posted on 11/03/2009 4:35:10 PM PST by Cheetahcat (Zero the Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
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To: CIDKauf
gotta go to Humphrey’s for a steak,

Will do, CID.

Gotta wait for the boys in Chicago to pull my name out of the hat. I've been a bad boy on the last two projects. But have behaved myself at the LOS in NoDak. Basin seems to like me.

BTW, I commission the power equipment at Power Plants. DFS goes on backfeed 15 Dec. Time to roll motors.

31 posted on 11/03/2009 4:38:12 PM PST by woofer ('Senator Obama ain't run nothin' but his mouth' - Steyn)
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To: CIDKauf
I love it out west, especially Utah.
But, I gotta admit, I don't hang around the rail yards too often.
32 posted on 11/03/2009 6:25:59 PM PST by evad (It's A Mont Thing)
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