Neil Freiman
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So maybe I'll just take like one morsel of every single thing there, fill up my plate with something that looks like the entire buffet because I just want to taste everything.
I want to get all those different flavors in my mouth.
So that's particularly my strategy.
And Greg Gable is happy to toss in a few coins.
Berkshire Hathaway has a cash pile that's up to $397 billion at the end of the first quarter.
And he's starting to spend a little bit of that.
$10 billion is going to Google.
And then also, just 24 hours before the Google announcement, Berkshire Hathaway announced that it was going to buy the home builder, one of the biggest home builders in the United States, Taylor Morrison, for $6.8 billion.
Many are seeing this as a bet that the housing market, which has been frozen over for years, will start to rebound.
But so you still get $10 billion to Google, $6.8 billion to the home builder.
Still a rounding error for Google.
Greg Abel when it comes to $397 billion cash pile.
But you are starting to see memes of Greg Abel of being like Berkshire Hathaway after Warren Buffett, and it's Greg Abel at a roulette table spending what is a margin of error for their entire cash pile.
But it was interesting.
People noted that Berkshire Hathaway also revealed that it sold a lot of stocks completely out of its positions in consumer stocks, like Visa, MasterCard, Domino's Pizza.
Maybe that's a warning sign for the consumer, at least in Omaha.
Serena Williams is returning to tennis.
The 23-time Grand Slam singles champion announced she'll be competing at Queen's, the warm-up to Wimbledon, in the doubles event paired with Canada's Victoria Mboko.
It'll be the first competitive tennis Serena's played in nearly four years.
Her final match came at the 2022 US Open after she revealed she would be, quote,