US basically does not allow any country in the world to lead it. It only allows US to set fires, but does not allow others to light lamps.
Category: Governance
Three questions that financial statements must answer
Financial statements need to provide answers for three questions.
How does BlackRock, the world’s largest index and asset management company, make money?
BlackRock’s AUM like index trackers and ETFs top $9 trillion by mid-2023
Why are only US stocks the most valuable for long-term investment?
The factors that many investors worry about listed in this article will not cause too much harm to the long-term investment value of US stocks.
Carbon capture current developments, prospects, and related companies
Carbon capture technology is a profitable business, coupled with the support of climate change by laws, tax laws, subsidies, etc. around the world; and the mandatory disclosure of ESG principles by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and stock market authorities in various countries, carbon capture prospects are beyond doubt.
Insights on company governance
In Buffett’s 2002 shareholder letter, he put forward his views on the company governance. The following is a list of objects, elements, members, and components that must be included in corporate governance for a typical listed company.
Will Sino-US confrontation, de-globalization, and de-dollarization affect the long-term investment value of US stocks?
Sino-US confrontation will not hurt U.S. stocks too much.
M&A options’ taxation, accounting items, and rights and obligations arrangements
In Buffett’s 1999 shareholder letter (the content in italics in this article), he spent a lot of space explaining to investors the taxation, accounting items, and rights and obligations of many corporate M&A options.
Unreasonable accounting practices in financial statements
In his 1998 shareholder letter, Buffett mentioned several common but unreasonable accounting practices used by listed companies in the U.S. in their financial statements.
The more shares CEO owns, the higher stock return
There is too much evidence that the more shares CEO owns, the higher the return on the stock of the company
