After the Election... What Will It Be Like? Can We Learn Anything from Warren Buffet's Father in Law?

<p>The Best Paragraph I've Read:</p> <p><br></p> <p>Warren went to talk to Susie's father to get his blessing. &nbsp;This, he already knew, would be easily had. &nbsp;But Doc Thompson took a while - quite a while - to get to the point. &nbsp;He started by explaining that Harry Truman and the Democrats were sending the country straight to hell. &nbsp;Pouring money into Europe after the war through the Marshall Plan and Berlin airlift was just proof that the policies of that devil Roosevelt were still in place, and that Truman was sending the country straight into bankruptcy. &nbsp;Look at how the Soviets got hold of the atomic bomb right after Truman had dismantled part of the military. &nbsp;Senator Joe McCarthy's House Un-American Activities Committee was proving what Doc Thompson had known all along, that the government was riddled with Communists. &nbsp;HUAC was finding Commies everywhere. &nbsp;The government was downright ineffectual - or worse - when it came to dealing with Communism. &nbsp;Truman had lost China for democracy. &nbsp;He would never be forgiven for firing the heroic General Douglas MacArthur for insubordination after he made repeated efforts to go around Truman and get approval to attach the Chinese Commies in Manchuria. &nbsp;But it was probably too late for even MacArthur to save the country now. &nbsp;The Communists were taking over the world, and stocks were going to be nothing but valueless bits of paper. &nbsp;So Warren's plan to work in the stock market was going to fail. &nbsp;But Doc Thompson would never blame Warren when his daughter starved... ... ...&nbsp;</p> <p><br></p> <p>This paragraph comes from the book "The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life." &nbsp;The book is written by Alice Schroeder.</p> <p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Snowball-Warren-Buffett-Business-Life/dp/0553805096/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1601602036&amp;sr=1-2">https://www.amazon.com/Snowball-Warren-Buffett-Business-Life/dp/0553805096/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qi