QUICK HIT: Wall Street to War Zones: The Week’s Biggest News
SmartHERNews
Jenna Lee
4.9 • 664 Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Key insights from the "Oracle of Omaha" Warren Buffett on the importance of addressing mistakes, the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine, and recent (historic) layoffs at Starbucks.
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| 1:00.1 | Sage Insight from the economy to the war. |
| 1:03.1 | A few perspectives to consider as we start another news week. |
| 1:06.1 | I'm Jenna, and this is Smarter News. |
| 1:20.6 | Before we get into the flurry of headlines this week, I wanted to share with you a quote from Warren Buffett in a letter to shareholders. As some of you may know, Buffett serves as a leader of a major publicly traded holding company, Berkshire Hathaway, |
| 1:26.6 | and every year he |
| 1:28.2 | holds an annual shareholder meeting to update his investors. And as part of that meeting, he pens a |
| 1:33.4 | letter. And usually this letter provides some insight about the economy and policy and also a little |
| 1:39.5 | wisdom about life. And we're going to listen to him because, well, he's 94 years old. And at last check, |
| 1:45.1 | he was worth approximately $155 billion. He also likes Dairy Queen Blizzard. So this is all a very |
| 1:51.8 | dangerous combination, all the more reason to pay attention. In fact, Berkshire Hathaway actually |
| 1:56.5 | owns Dairy Queen. But I digress. One of the things he writes about is the importance of honest |
| 2:02.0 | assessments. And one of the quotes of his letter this year is the following. Mistakes fade away. |
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