Einhorn says he has a lot of stocks to talk about, starts with Martin Marietta Materials, which he says has "lots of problems." Einhorn calls MLM CEO a "degree in megalomania"...Einhorn just pulled out a magic wand and I'm pretty sure made a Harry Potter reference. And he's onto talking global economies. He's talking up a stock in Norway known as GJF. [Deal Journal]
Everybody say a prayer.
Depending on how investors want to look at things.
In fact, consider the numbers 2, 0, 1, and 5 banned from Greenlight Capital's offices.
The Greenlight Capital founder just got up to speed on the last season and has feelings about it.
Back in February, in his annual letter to investors, Berkshire Hathaway chief Warren Buffett spent a good bit of time discussing why one shouldn't own gold. Beyond the fact that, according to WB, gold doesn't "change in size and [is] incapable of producing anything," and you'd be much better off buying farmland (which "a century from now will have produced staggering amounts of corn, wheat, cotton and other crops and will continue to produce that valuable bounty") or shares of Exxon Mobil (which "will probably have delivered trillions of dollars in dividends to its owners," the Oracle of Omaha had one incontrovertible, be all end all reason for eschewing the metal: its unfuckability. Oh sure, you can do things to a cube, you can fondle it, you can talk dirty to it, you can send nude pictures of yourself, you can even drill a hole in it and fuck it senseless, but, the thing is, the cube will not respond. No reciprocation, no gratitude, not even a sign it enjoyed itself. For Buffett, no further argument was necessary as to the worthlessness of the commodity. (Silver, on the other hand, will make you feel like you're 18 again.) Anyway, David Einhorn sort of feels the same way about the dollar. Greenlight Capital 1Q2012 Letter To Investors [PDF] Related: Don't Think He Hasn't Tried
In fact, it's difficult to impossible to imagine it having gone worse.