Government Steps Up Attack on Fatty Foods Marketed to Kids

The Federal Trade Commission has made good on threats to limit how fatty and salt-laden foods are marketed - particularly to children. That spells bad news for a number of large American companies, including McDonald's (MCD) to Yum (YUM) to Kraft (KFT).

On Thursday, the FTC announced it was seeking input on proposed voluntary principles for marketing food to children. In a press release, the agency stated that "In an effort to combat childhood obesity ? the most serious health crisis facing today's youth ? a working group of four federal agencies" released for public comment "a set of proposed voluntary principles that can be used by industry as a guide for marketing food to children."

The key word is "voluntary." Fast food and food manufacturers may find pressure to change the way they market their products is so severe that they have little choice.

Government data says that cookies, cakes, pizza, soda, energy and sports drinks are the top sources of calories in the diets of children 2 through 18. Meanwhile, chips and french fries comprise half of all the vegetables kids eat.

The debate may eventually pit two principles against one another. The first is the question of what freedom companies should continue to have to market products and what rights people will have to buy those products even if they can create long-term harm. The government's regulation of the tobacco industry shows that it can have a powerful say in the advertising of "dangerous" products if it says it can. And, that is the other side of the issue of principles. Can the government impose its will on companies that it believes sell dangerous products?

The government's plans may be overreaching. But as long as the FTC and its sister agencies continue to claim that "childhood obesity is the nation's most serious health threat," food companies face a tough battle ahead.

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These Tech Stocks Will Make Me Rich

Welcome to week 140 of my stock-picking throwdown with Mr. Market. Let's get right to the numbers.

Company

Starting Price*

Recent Price

Total Return

Akamai (Nasdaq: AKAM  ) $22.23 $34.43 54.9%
Harris & Harris $6.22 $5.22 (16.1%)
IBM $122.97** $170.58 38.7%
Oracle $22.33** $35.96 61.0%
Taiwan Semiconductor $9.35** $13.50 44.4%
AVERAGE RETURN -- -- 36.58%
S&P 500 SPDR $120.04** $136.43 13.65%
DIFFERENCE -- -- 22.93

Source: Yahoo! Finance.
*Tracking began on Aug. 7, 2008.
**Adjusted for dividends and other returns of capital.

Score another for Mr. Market. The S&P 500 reached a new high as my tech portfolio slid backwards, resulting in my giving back 310 basis points in this three-year contest. Lately, I've been unable to find consistent gains.

Such is the nature of investing in individual stocks. Short-run returns often wax between exhilarating and eviscerating. Indexers bear no such heartache, choosing instead to revel in low-cost ignorance of the market's daily machinations.

Those who looked up to see how their portfolios were faring had plenty to smile about. The Dow 30 surged 2.44% for the week, followed closely by the small-cap Russell 2000, which ended up 2.32%. The S&P 500 also did well, up 1.96%, while the Nasdaq enjoyed a 1.89% gain.

The blue-chip rally comes at an interesting time. This weekend marks Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting, which value investors reverently refer to as "Woodstock for Capitalists." Several Berkshire holdings had big weeks. Kraft (NYSE: KFT  ) and Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ  ) hit multiyear highs on Friday, CNBC reports.

Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett will take questions as he always does, including (we hope) these five from my Foolish friend and Motley Fool Inside Value advisor Joe Magyer. LouAnn Lofton will also be on hand to find out why Buffett invests like a girl. Follow our live blog for his answers.

The week in tech
As a growth investor whose primary beat is tech, I'm interested in but not obsessed with Buffett's comments. There's no "Woodstock" for me. I'm just as thrilled to attend January's Consumer Electronics Show.

Or, better yet, Google's (Nasdaq: GOOG  ) upcoming I/O developer conference in San Francisco, where I expect to see new Android code and an updated Chrome OS and hear more about The Big G's efforts to fight Facebook in the social sphere.

Of course, Google isn't the only one creating value. Several tech up-and-comers reported outstanding earnings this week. Two cloud-computing stocks I've recommended to our Motley Fool Rule Breakers members notched big gains, but they paled in comparison with the numbers from NetGear (Nasdaq: NTGR  ) , Ancestry.com (Nasdaq: ACOM  ) , and Qlik Technologies (Nasdaq: QLIK  ) . All three stocks have easily outperformed the S&P 500 so far this year.

Shares of NetGear soared as much as 28% yesterday, after the supplier of home-networking equipment blew away estimates for first-quarter revenue and earnings and then issued Q2 revenue guidance that, on the low end, was 12% higher than the average analyst estimate.

Ancestry.com said its Q1 net profit more than doubled on a 33% gain in its subscriber base. And like NetGear, management also guided higher. Executives expect the family researcher to book $98 million to $100 million in second-quarter revenue. Analysts had been calling for just $87 million.

Qlik destroyed top-line estimates but only met bottom-line expectations as management chose to continue investing in staff and technology. Good move. Qlik is at the front end of a multibillion-dollar opportunity to put business intelligence into the hands of millions more front-line employees, increasing productivity and, ultimately, profits. (Qlik says the average reported ROI on its QlikView software is 186%.)

History tells us we want to be invested at the front end of these shifts. It's when disruptions take hold and become mainstream that billions in new stock market wealth is created.

Look at David Gardner. He produced a decade of 20% returns in the real-money Rule Breaker portfolio by betting on a collection of innovators and then holding them for the long term. Tom Gardner's "simpleton portfolio" was also a 10-year winner. I believe that, with my tech portfolio, I will achieve similar success.

Checkup time!
Now let's move on to the rest of today's update.

  • For as many great tech earnings reports as there was this week, Akamai's wasn't one of them. The leading content-delivery network beat Q1 revenue and earnings estimates but issued disappointing Q2 guidance, and the stock ended the week down 14% as a result. So be it. Long-term holders should take encouragement from -- of all places -- the expense line. Cost of revenue rose 32% in Q1, reflective of CEO Paul Sagan's desire to invest now to capitalize on big Internet traffic increases in the years to come.

There's your checkup. See you back here next weekend for more tech-stock talk. In the meantime, don't forget to keep up with my tech portfolio by adding these stocks to your watchlist today:

Berkshire Hathaway and NetGear are Motley Fool Stock Advisor selections. Akamai, Ancestry.com, Google, and Qlik Technologies are Motley Fool Rule Breakers recommendations. Berkshire Hathaway, Google, and Johnson & Johnson are Motley Fool Inside Value picks. Johnson & Johnson is also a Motley Fool Income Investor recommendation. Motley Fool Options has recommended a diagonal call position in Johnson & Johnson. Motley Fool Alpha LLC owns shares of Johnson & Johnson. Try any of our Foolish newsletter services free for 30 days.

Fool contributor Tim Beyers is a member of the market-beating Rule Breakers stock-picking team. He owned shares of Akamai, Google, Harris & Harris, IBM, Oracle, QlikTech, and Taiwan Semiconductor at the time of publication. Check out his portfolio holdings and Foolish writings, or connect with him on Twitter as @milehighfool. You can also get his insights delivered directly to your RSS reader. We Fools don't all hold the same opinions, but we all believe that considering a diverse range of insights makes us better investors. The Motley Fool owns shares of Berkshire Hathaway, Google, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, and Oracle and is also on Twitter as @TheMotleyFool. Its disclosure policy is tech-tastic.

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How To Protect Your Facebook Profile: 10 Ways to Increase Privacy

Don't want one of your Facebook "friends" knowing your status updates? Prefer to keep a few of those "friends" out of your photo albums? Would you like to prevent a few "friends" from accessing your address?

The simple answer would be to remove all of those so-called friends?you know, the ones that aren't really your friends. But there's plenty of reasons to keep those acquaintances and would-be buddies, like socializing with fellow workers and potential clients or stalking your favorite musician.

So, the best answer? Split up your web pals into Friend Lists. You can set up lists for anything?schoolmates, coworkers, instate buddies, potential love interests?whatever. And you can set each of those separate Friend Lists to see what you want them to see. But that's not all you can do to make sure you have the private experience you want on Facebook. Below are 10 steps that you may or may not want to use to safeguard your Facebook information?it's up to you.

Step 1 Friend Lists

This will outline how to set up a Friend List, edit them and choose what information they see. You can create up to 100 different lists. In those, you can store up to 1,000 of your friends. Chances are, most of you don't have that many, but maybe someday.

Creating Friend Lists

1.  From your Home or Profile page, click on Friends.
2.  On the Friends page, click on the Edit Friends button.

3.  On the Edit Friends page, click on Create a List.

4.  The Create New List box appears. Enter the title of your Friends List in the space provided.

5.  Search for people by typing in their name or simply browse the list shown. Select those you
     want in to include in the list. Once selected, the photo will be highlighted in blue and a check
     mark will appear.
6.  Click on Selected to see everyone in your current list, to see if you forgot anyone. Click on All
     to go back and search for those you missed.
7.  Click on Create List to seal the deal.

Editing Friend Lists

To view or add/delete people from your created Friend Lists, just go to Edit Friends and select your list from the left-hand column.

Protecting Status Updates

If you want to write a status update only to a specified Friend List, type in your status update and click on the lock icon.

Select Customize. In the drop-down menu under Make this visible to, select Specific People, then type in the name of your Friend List. Then, click Save Setting.

Protecting Profile Information

Using Friend Lists is one of the best and easiest ways to control who sees what on your Facebook profile. It's saves time compared to setting preferences with individual friends.

1.  Click on Account in the top right-hand corner.
2.  Choose Privacy Settings.
3.  Select Customize Settings.
4.  Click on the drop-down menu next to each option you want to change, then select Customize.
5.  In the drop-down menu under Make this visible to, select Specific People, then type in the
     name of your Friend List. Then, click Save Setting.

There's a lot of information you may want to protect, like your posts, bio, places you check in to, photos you're tagged in, wall posts, contact address, etc., and Friend Lists makes it easy to control who sees what.

Step 2 Social and Third-Party Ads

If you don't want your name and profile picture to appear in Facebook's Social Ads, then you might want to stop it from happening.

1.  Click on Account in the top right-hand corner.
2.  Choose Account Settings.
3.  When in My Account, click on the Facebook Ads tabs at the far right.
4.  Click on Edit third party ad settings.
5.  Select No one from the drop-down list and hit Save Changes.

6.  Click back on the Facebook Ads tab.
7.  Click on Edit social ads setting.
8.  Select No one from the drop-down list and hit Save Changes.

Step 3 Instant Personalization

The Instant Personalization feature shares your personal data with not only Facebook, but non-Facebook partner sites, like Bing, Rotten Tomatoes, Pandora and Yelp. To stop this, you need to disable it, if not already done.

1.  Click on Account in the top right-hand corner.
2.  Choose Privacy Settings.
3.  Click on Edit your settings in the bottom left, under Apps and Websites.

4.  Click on Edit Settings for Instant Personalization.

5.  Un-check the box that says Enable instant personalization on partner websites.

Step 4 Contact Information

Sure, you can protect your contact information from certain friends, but what about keeping third-parties away? It might be best to just remove all of your contact info, specifically your phone and address.

1.  Click on the Profile tab in the top right.
2.  Select Info underneath your profile picture.
3.  Click on Edit inside the Contact Information section.

4.  Make sure all of your Phone and Address information is blank and click the Save Changes.

Step 5 Facebook Search

If your profile is opted in for Facebook Search, then everyone can access your profile page, albeit without total access. Regardless of your privacy settings, it's best to make yourself invisible to everyone with Internet access.

1.  Click on the Account tab.
2.  Choose Privacy Settings from the drop-down menu.
3.  In the Connecting on Facebook section at the top, click on View Settings.

4.  By Search for you on Facebook, choose Friends Only from the drop-down menu.

Step 6 Public Search

Not only can people search for you on Facebook, but they can search for you via Google, Bing and other search engines. Make sure to turn off Public Search if you don't want to be seen outside of Facebook.

1.  Click on the Account tab.
2.  Choose Privacy Settings.
3.  Click on Edit your settings in the bottom left, under Apps and Websites.
4.  Find Public search and click on Edit Settings.

5. Un-check the box that says Enable public search.

NOTE: If you set Facebook Search to Friends Only in Step 5, then Public Search will automatically be disabled. You must have Facebook Search set to Everyone in order to enable or disable Public Search manually.

Step 7 Application Access

If you have third-party apps connected to your Facebook (most of you will), it's time to get rid of the ones you're not using, or ones you deem mistrustful.

1.  Click on the Account tab.
2.  Choose Privacy Settings.
3.  Click on Edit your settings in the bottom left, under Apps and Websites.
4.  Find the Apps you use section.
     A.  Turn of all platform apps will do just that. But who wants to get rid of all their apps?
     B.  The other two choices are Remove unwanted or spammy apps and Edit Settings. Both
          do the same thing.
5.  Click on Remove or Edit Settings and find the app you want to remove or edit.
6.  Click Edit Settings or just hit the X to remove the app altogether.

NOTE: Most options are required by apps, but some you can remove, like posting to your wall. If you don't like what they have required access to, then simply hit Remove app. Below is an example of what one application has access to.

Step 8 Info Accessible in Apps

Some friends may be using the same apps that you do, which means they can see more of you when they're using those apps. If you don't want to share a lot of information with your friends, then you can change some of the settings.

1.  Click on the Account tab.
2.  Choose Privacy Settings.
3.  Click on Edit your settings in the bottom left, under Apps and Websites.
4.  Click Edit Settings from the Info accessible through your friends section.
5.  Select what information you want available to applications, games and websites when your
     friends use them. Hit Save Changes.

Step 9 Browse Safely

Protect your browsing experience by preventing hackers access to your information when on a public network connection. Make sure to set up Secure Browsing (https) and login alerts.

1.  Click on the Account tab.
2.  Choose Account Settings.
3.  Click Change next to Account Security.

4. Check the box for Secure Browsing (https). Click Save.

NOTE: Whenever you use a Facebook page or third-party app that takes you out of secure browsing, and you allow it, it will disable it completely and you'll have to go back and reset your preferences. Don't assume it will automatically switch back.

When in Account Security, you can also change settings for Login Approvals and Login Notifications and check your recent Login Activity.

Step 10 More...

There's a lot that goes into protecting your Facebook profile. More than meets the eye. But here are a few links to other actions you can take to make a more private social experience.

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College Attrition Rates on the Rise

Did you know that not offering a financial education course to your incoming freshmen can have an extreme negative impact on your campus?

Financial concerns are the number-one reason why students drop out of college today. In fact, according to the National Center for Education Statistics, the attrition rate between first- and second-year college students is 24.5%. That means nearly a quarter of all freshmen do not return their sophomore year! To make matters worse, another study found that 42% of those who leave do so because of financial reasons.

In 2009, Sallie Mae discovered that 84% of college students indicated they needed more money management education. In addition to that, a 2009 Noel Levitz report concluded that only 46.4% of college students claimed that they had adequate financial resources to finish college. Keeping those percentages in mind, wouldn?t it make sense to offer incoming freshmen a financial education course? Not only would the class help students, but it would benefit your college as well by decreasing the attrition rate!

Let?s use these stats in an illustration to gain a better understanding of the problem. Example University has 1,000 incoming freshmen who each pay in-state tuition. The current national average for in-state tuition is more than $6,300.

1,000 x 24.5% = 245 students lost in attrition.

245 x 42% = 102 students lost due to financial concerns.

102 students x 6,300 = $642,600 x 3 years = $1.9 million in lost tuition.

See how losing just over 100 students because of financial issues can literally cost the school nearly $2 million in lost revenue?

That?s a recurring loss for every freshman class. Jim King, Vice President of Dave Ramsey?s school curriculum, said, ?This is a major problem. Not only does your college miss out on tuition dollars and alumni giving, the students who leave for financial reasons miss out on an opportunity to shape their futures for the better.?

Teaching Students Really Pays Off

So can the time and cash spent on teaching college students how to handle their money really pay off? Absolutely!

Let?s say Example University spends $20 per freshman to equip them with money management skills. That?s a $20,000 up-front investment on the college?s end. If they retain only two of the potential 102 students who drop out due to financial issues, they will have more than recouped the cost of the program!

This simple example doesn?t even factor in other tangible ways financial literacy will impact the college. Think about alumni support and community involvement. ?Allocating time and resources to teaching students about money is an investment that will keep giving back for generations,? Jim said.

It only makes sense for colleges to start implementing money management courses in their general education requirements for freshmen. With such a small initial investment by the college, a financial education course can reap dividends for both the school and the student.

Dave Ramsey's college curriculum challenges the way students view money and empowers them with the education they need to graduate on a solid financial foundation. Learn about this life-changing curriculum now!

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Business Communication is Not Just Talking Loud

Effective communication is an absolute requirement for successfully starting a business, but it doesn?t come naturally to many entrepreneurs. Communication is considered a social skill, and inventors and engineers, for example, aren?t known to be social butterflies.

Founders have to communicate their ideas and products to investors, business partners, and the rest of the team. Then, hopefully, come customers, distribution channels, and going public or merging with an attractive buy-out candidate. Communication is not just talking, but also writing, body language, and ?actions speak louder than words.?

John Spence, in his book ?Awesomely Simple? says that the single biggest problem he has to deal with in client companies worldwide is the lack of open, honest, robust, and courageous communication. He narrows down the problem to the following aspects of communication, and I agree:

  • Honesty. This element is without question the most important in building strong communication in a startup. The implementation is simple ? just tell the truth all the time, every time. It?s a lot easier than trying to remember what you said the last time, and people notice quickly. Build a culture of truth, and others will follow your lead.
  • Empathy. It is one thing to be honest; it is another thing to be brutally honest. Tell the truth in a frank and direct, yet respectful and empathetic, way. Shoot straight with people, but don?t shoot them between the eyes. Body language and sincerity are important here.
  • Courage. You need the courage to put even the most difficult and challenging subjects on the table and lead the discussion. Don?t wait until tomorrow, hoping the problem will go away. Courageous means that team members have the nerve and confidence to question authority, rather than dutifully fall in line behind a bad direction.
  • Safety. If you want people to tell the truth, you have to make it safe for them. Here is where your actions speak louder than your words, and louder than any written policies. If you obliterate someone for telling you the truth, you will never hear the truth again. If you are caught in a lie once, you will never be believed again.
  • Intellectual rigor. Although people should be safe, ideas should not be. In an intellectually rigorous culture, theories are tested, and people welcome, even encourage, critical examination of ideas and information, regardless of the source. The goal is for only the strongest ideas to survive.
  • Transparency. The hallmark of great leaders and organizations is that they share as much information with all of their stakeholders as often as they possibly can, in multiple contexts. Yet many leaders will tell me that they are continually amazed to hear the common complaint ?why didn?t anybody tell me this was happening?.

Spence says that the best way to improve your organizational communication levels is to improve your own interpersonal communication skills. Luckily, these are skills that can be taught and learned. It takes practice and hard work, but with time, it is possible to greatly improve.

The key skills for superior interpersonal communications are effective use of body language, focused listening, expert questioning, using multiple sensory modes, providing both logical and emotional arguments, and listening for ambiguous or emotionally loaded words. But these are subjects for another day.

If you are one of those entrepreneurs who struggles with every email you write, take heed of the importance of the basic principles above, and take inspiration from the fact that you can and will improve your skills, if you are willing to work at it. But make no mistake about it, being an entrepreneur who does not communicate is not an option. Start today, and do it every day.

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Two easy steps you can take towards fixing your credit. When you are starting credit repair you need to stop the actions that got your bad credit to begin with and these are the two places to start.

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Resist the urge to high-five everyone in the cubicles next to you. Your stock may have just strapped on a rocket pack and taken off for the moon, but smart investors won't celebrate until they know that upward leap was justified. Without a fundamental basis for the bounce, these stocks can quickly make the return trip down.

Is now the time to lock in profits, or is this just the first step toward even higher valuations down the road? Let's examine several stocks that just hit the afterburners, and see whether they're truly headed into orbit.

The markets have overcome the decision by Standard & Poor's to revise the country's debt down, focusing instead on the big earnings reports companies turned in yesterday, with stocks jumping 115 points, or almost 1%. So stocks that went significantly higher are pretty big deals.

New frontiers in investing
The markets were laser-focused on II-VI yesterday after it turned in earnings that while inline with expectations provided guidance that outstripped Wall Street's forecasts. The maker of laser-related technology that's used for cutting, drilling, welding, and even certain military applications saw third-quarter profits more than double on higher sales of its infrared optics products, earning $23.1 million or $0.72 per share on $130 million in revenue.

However it's the future the market liked. II-VI said it expects fourth quarter profits will come in somewhere between $0.68 and $0.73 per share on as much as $134 million in revenue. Analysts were only expecting $0.57 in profits with less than $128 million in sales.

II-VI was able to achieve these kind of results primarily because the economy is getting a better footing so its customer roster, which includes the likes of Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT  ) and Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC  ) , are buying more. Yet there's also very little competition for II-VI's specialized niche, one of the reasons the Fool's Rex Moore picked the stock for his Rising Stars portfolio.

Last month CAPS member bizcbug7 noted the company's growing backlog of business, and while that's not necessarily an indicator for future sales, accelerating profits suggested a better future: "Earnings growth accelerating through past 3 Q's. Their bookings have doubled yoy. Cash 119M, debt 3.7M."

You can let us know on the II-VI CAPS page if you think investors will be singed by buying the laser maker now.

Not an uncommon occurrence
With the pop in W&T Offshore's stock yesterday, why, you'd think the Obama administration was actually opening the floodgates on oil drilling permits. The independent oil and gas explorer has most of its assets in the Gulf of Mexico and it's been hit hard by the administration's go-slow oil policies.

Well, the industry has no such luck on that front, though the doors been cracked open a little. Instead, it was a combination of a much better than expected earnings report coupled with an announcement it was buying more acreage in the Permian Basin.

W&T has been gearing up to have a bigger presence in natural gas. That actually worried investors early on since gas prices have been depressed and nat gas giants like Chesapeake Energy (NYSE: CHK  ) were trying to grow their own presence in oil. Getting in while others are getting out had investors concerned, but it seems the thinking now is everyone having a bit of exposure everywhere is a good thing.

While the stock's jump makes W&T much pricier than it was previously, anguijm believes oil and gas plays like W&T are just a better energy bet.

With nuclear fears renewed, it only makes sense to back natural gas companies with a safety record for the foreseeable future. Nukes are scary. Coal is dirty. Green energy is too expensive.

You can drill down further into the discussion on the W&T Offshore CAPS page and keep an eye on its progress by adding the stock to your watchlist.

Making a connection
Precious metals miner Paramount Gold & Silver couldn't have picked a better time to report new positive metallurgical results for its wholly owned San Miguel project in Mexico. Gold and silver are off the hook these days with the yellow metal over $1,500 an ounce and its gray cousin going for more than $45 (it hit $50 just the other day).

Paramount's mine is an extension of the world-class silver and gold Palmarejo mine owned by Coeur D'Alene Mines  (NYSE: CDE  ) , which, for the record, isn't happy about the "discovery," feeling it's more like someone reaching their hand into its pocket to take money from its wallet. It plans to "aggressively address" the situation in order to defend its property rights.

CAPS All-Star freeits says its all about the precious metal: "Gold my friends, Gold-the time now is to invest!"

But you can stay on top of the company's developments by adding the stock to the Fool's free portfolio tracker.

Going into orbit
That's why it pays to start your own research on these stocks on Motley Fool CAPS, where you can read a company's financial reports, scrutinize key data and charts, and examine the comments your fellow investors have made, all from the stock's CAPS page. Then you can decide for yourself whether your stock's headed for reentry, or off to infinity and beyond.

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Warren Buffett: There's "No Question" The Dollar Will Keep Falling

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Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger don't like gold (or silver), and they're not eager to place any FX bets, but Buffett's view on the dollar seems pretty unequivocally negative.

Via Liz Claman, Buffett told the crowd in Omaha: No question that the purchasing power of U.S. dollar will decline over time. Only question is at what rate it will happen.

He says he's had fears that it could happen at a quicker rate.

All that being said, this isn't necessarily a gloomy pronouncement. Buffett noted how much the dollar has depreciated since he was born, and yet economic progress since then has been remarkable in the US. What's more, all currencies will decline over time (vs. real things), it's just a matter of the pace.

And ultimately, even still, Buffett says right now he'd rather be born in the US than anywhere else in the world.

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