Brace For A Monday Massacre: Buffett Liquidates All Airline Holdings As Berkshire Sees Another Leg Lower
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
Sat, 05/02/2020
Well, it’s official: there won’t be any “Buy American” op-eds by the Oracle of Omaha this time around. In fact, if anything, they will be titled simply “Sell.”
Warren Buffett, who turns 90 in 4 months, had an unpleasant surprise for the permabullish Berkshire faithful during their annual pilgrimage to Omaha live-stream of Berkshire’s annual meeting: one month after Berkshire surprised investors by selling parts of its Delta and Southwest Airlines stakes – both of which had previously been above a 10% ownership level and speculation was rife that Berkshire could purchase an airline outright in the near future – the Oracle of Omaha said that, 4 years after Berkshire took major stakes in the four largest US airlines, he had liquidated the sold the entirety of its equity position in the U.S. airline industry which included $6.5 billion worth of stock in United, American, Southwest and Delta Airlines.
Assuring that Monday will be a bloodbath for Trannies (that would be the transportation stocks you perverts), Buffett justified his decision as follows: “The world has changed for the airlines. And I don’t know how it’s changed and I hope it corrects itself in a reasonably prompt way,” he said. “I don’t know if Americans have now changed their habits or will change their habits because of the extended period.”
But “I think there are certain industries, and unfortunately, I think that the airline industry, among others, that are really hurt by a forced shutdown by events that are far beyond our control.”
“When we bought [airlines], we were getting an attractive amount for our money when investing across the airlines,” he said. “It turned out I was wrong about that business because of something that was not in any way the fault of four excellent CEOs. Believe me. No joy of being a CEO of an airline.”
““I don’t know that 3-4 years from now people will fly as many passenger miles as they did last year …. you’ve got too many planes.”
Realizing that he won’t be alive by the time a turnaround eventually happens, he clarified that he made the decision and that he lost money on his investments. “That was my mistake.”
Highlight: "The value of certain things have decreased," Warren Buffett says. "Our airlines position was a mistake. Berkshire is worth less today because I took that position… There are other decisions like that." #YFBuffett pic.twitter.com/W1ZqRzsfmv
— Yahoo Finance (@YahooFinance) May 3, 2020
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He did the right thing. Sheeple have been brainwashed and will be afraid to fly for maybe the first 3 or 4 months now going forward. Flying’s stupid anyways. Drive or take a bus wherever you’re going. Airlines have gotten out of control.
He also knows there’s a reset coming. A new metals backed US Dollar.
Here’s what’ll happen :
1. The system will crash and silver will skyrocket.
2. Crypto exchanges will go bankrupt and you won’t be able to get your coins.
3. You can turn in your old dollars … 2 of them for 1 new one.
4. Great stocks will fall and sell for $1. to $2. which means you can sell silver and grab stocks ( cause the economy will rebound better than before. )
5. Then grab certain cryptos after they fall from all the angry selling once people finally get “some” back.
6. Sell all stocks right before Trump leaves office in Jan 2025.
7. Move to rural south and stock up !!!!