It’s the first day of Crypto-Christmas! So who’s first on our list of festive visitors? Why it’s everyone’s favourite crypto grinch, 92 year-old Warren Buffett! Along with Charlie Munger, he’s one of the ‘Two Wise Men’ of trad-fi (a third would be a wasteful luxury) bearing gifts of gold, franken-common- sense and myrrh-cantile trade dividends.
PC:
Merry Christmas, Warren! What was on your Christmas wish list this year?
WB:
The death of Bitcoin.
PC:
Nice cheerful start. Was there anything more fun you wanted?
WB:
Bah humbug!
PC:
Nothing at all?
WB:
You misheard me. A humbug.
PC:
For Christmas you wanted one humbug?
WB:
Yes. I pop it in my mouth on January 1st and make it last until the following year. Some years I’ve sucked it down to nothing by October but that’s my own damn fault for being impatient.
PC:
Surely, there must be some festivity in the Buffett household? Do you have a tree?
WB:
It’s bad business to harvest a tree before it’s matured. I’ll leave it to steadily accumulate in the forest until I retire in 18 years.
PC:
When you’re 110?
WB:
Yes. The mandatory retirement age, in my opinion.
PC:
Wowzers. What do the Buffetts do for Christmas lunch? I bet you have a buffet…
WB:
You, Sir, are rat poison squared.
PC:
Oh, he’s hung up. Shame. I never got to ask him what colour his baubles are. Never mind. Join us tomorrow, readers, for another festive visitor. Merry Christmas, everyone!
