{"id":1279,"date":"2007-05-05T08:23:15","date_gmt":"2007-05-05T16:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2007\/05\/05\/berkshire-hathaway-2006-annual-report\/"},"modified":"2007-05-05T08:23:15","modified_gmt":"2007-05-05T16:23:15","slug":"berkshire-hathaway-2006-annual-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2007\/05\/05\/berkshire-hathaway-2006-annual-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Berkshire Hathaway 2006 Annual Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every couple weeks I receive in the mail yet another weighty book from one of the stocks that I own. And every couple weeks, I spend the time to rip it open, flip through it, wonder how much of <em>my<\/em> money it cost to produce this full-color glossy advertisement for a company that I already own. I then find the nearest person, show them some token shiny pictures, charts and graphs and hurumph to them, &#8220;This book here, it tells me that &#8216;we are going to try and make as much money for you as we can&#8217;.&#8221; Then it goes straight into the trash.<\/p>\n<p>Last year I bought some Berkshire Hathaway stock. A couple weeks ago I got the Annual Report in the mail. I flipped through it. It&#8217;s different. It&#8217;s wonderful. It&#8217;s useful. It&#8217;s educational. It&#8217;s smart. The first 24 pages contains Warren Buffett&#8217;s Chairman&#8217;s Letter. Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.berkshirehathaway.com\/2006ar\/2006ar.pdf\">Berkshire Hathaway 2006 Annual Report for yourself.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berkshirehathaway.com\/annual.html\">Previous years reports<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every couple weeks I receive in the mail yet another weighty book from one of the stocks that I own. And every couple weeks, I spend the time to rip it open, flip through it, wonder how much of my money it cost to produce this full-color glossy advertisement for a company that I already [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}