Further, in the midst of chaos, the stock market crashed, resulting in a global bear market that lasted from 1973 to 1974. In my 52 years of investing, I have never seen anyone consistently and accurately predict what the economy or the stock market was going to do. They acquired weaker competitors at bargain prices or gained market share as their rivals faltered. The stock market crash of 1987, the dot-com bubble burst of 2000-2001, the 2007-2008 financial crisis, and now. We seek to accomplish that by investing for the long term in companies we believe are competitively advantaged and managed by exceptional people.

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