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Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway Buys over 10% of BNSF
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<p>Here's another possibility based on some recent attempts at "investment influence".</p><p>Back in the 1990's, a certain tech billionaire (for the sake of anonymity we'll refer to him as "B. Gates". No wait, that's too obvious! Let's instead refer to him as "Bill G." <span class="smiley">[;)]) bought a significant stake in a certain energy company. Shortly thereafter, the energy company brought in new management, changed it's name, became a diversified energy company with big bucks invested in high tech, and yadda yadda yadda a few years later nearly went belly-up from all this influence. FYI - the company is doing fine today, now that the 90's CEO was bought out.</span></p><p><span class="smiley">Now, I'm not suggesting Mr. Buffet will try and do the same, but perhaps he sees an opportunity to make this company take advantage of profit maximization by excerting some control over it's business decisions.</span></p><p><span class="smiley">We are all aware of the fact that a certain railroad is spending obscene amounts of money to add capacity to it's lower profit corridors while throwing nickel and dime expenditures at it's higher profit corridors. Perhaps Mr. Buffet is able to do what some of us wish we could do to/for this particular railroad!</span></p><p><span class="smiley">Either that, or Mr. Buffet is <em>also</em> a disciple of Chairman Mao!<span class="smiley">[}:)]</span></span></p>
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