For the first time the complete financial history of Berkshire Hathaway is available under one cover in chronological format. Beginning at the origins of the predecessor companies in the textile industry, the reader can examine the development of the modern-day conglomerate year-by-year and decade-by-decade, watching as the struggling textile company morphs into what it has become today. This comprehensive analysis distils over 10,000 pages of research material, including Buffett’s Chairman’s letters, Berkshire Hathaway annual reports and SEC filings, annual meeting transcripts, subsidiary financials, and more. The analysis of each year is supplemented with Buffett’s own commentary where relevant, and examines all important acquisitions, investments, and other capital allocation decisions. The appendices contain balance sheets, income statements, statements of cash flows, and key ratios dating back to the 1930s, materials brought together for the first time. The structure of the book allows the new student to follow the logic, reasoning, and capital allocation decisions made by Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger from the very beginning. Existing Berkshire shareholders and long-time observers will find new information and refreshing analysis, and a convenient reference guide to the decades of financial moves that built the modern-day respected enterprise that is Berkshire Hathaway.
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, large numbers of Swedish immigrants came to Michigan seeking new opportunities in the United States and relief from economic, religious, or political problems at home. In addition to establishing early farming communities, Swedish immigrants worked on railroad construction, mining, fishing, logging, and urban manufacturing. As a result, Swedish Americans made significant contributions to the economic and cultural landscape of Michigan, a history this book explores in engaging and illustrative depth. Swedes in Michigan traces the evolution of hard-working people who valued education and assimilated actively while simultaneously maintaining their cultural ties and institutions. Moving from past to present, the book examines community patterns, family connections, social organizations, exchange programs, ethnic celebrations, and business and technical achievements that have helped Swedes in Michigan maintain a sense of their heritage even as they have adapted to American life.
KINGDOM LIFE ___________________________________________ There is more! For those of you who have been longing for more in your personal walk with Jesus, wondering what you are missing, knowing there must be more––there is! The present truth now being made clear to the body of Christ is that God's purpose has always been for His kingdom to be released on this earth through His multi-membered body, the church. It is His intent for His presence to be released on the earth to an extent that will increase from glory to glory, until "as the waters fill the sea, the earth will be filled with an awareness of the glory of the Lord" (Habakkuk 2:14). "Your kingdom come. Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven" (Matthew 6:10). 339
Dietary Supplement GMP is a one-stop "how-to" road map to the final dietary supplement GMP regulations recently issued by the FDA covering the manufacture, packaging, and holding of dietary supplement products.The recent regulations, outlining broad goals, intentionally avoid specifics to allow for future technological advances-leaving implementati
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Have you ever felt that no matter what you say or do - you cannot progress in life? You cannot get the job you want or the girl you desire. Sometimes it's so bad you can't even get a job interview let alone a job. Perhaps your a woman who is expected to marry - but a partner never comes along. You look in the mirror and what is staring back at you. Well, you're not exactly a ten-headed monster. In fact, that's quite a good looking face that you see. So what's wrong? Your fit and healthy and have a degree. What's with the bad luck - why can't I do it, get it, marry it and make a successful family of my life? You have tried everything you know. The positive thinking, rewriting the CV, how to win friends and influence people. Well, the answer may be deeper than you think. You may be blighted with bad luck from previous karma. It does happen. People who die under unlucky circumstances can bring it back. In this book, there is a way that can help you out. I will show you how to create a symbolic language - put it into a ritualistic prayer format and reach a higher life. In a sense, show you a way where you can try and get the monkey off your back - READ ON.
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