The Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B) annual meeting has come and gone.
As it has for decades, this annual pilgrimmage to Omaha, Nebraska, had a familiar organizational ring. Starting with a humorlessly prepared video, the meeting morphs into a lengthy question-and-answer period in front of about 40,000 in attendance, followed by a brief, perfunctory discussion of shareholder recommendations and voting on those issues. (Adjacent to the auditorium is a large presentation from Berkshire subsidiaries where you can by all sorts of products sold by the company).
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