Rate. That meeting, 2day meeting beginning trade, trade in focus, Robert Lighthizer testifying before Senate House Committee today and ways and means tomorrow. Jeff, great to have you. Thank you, glad to be here. Maria thanks for joining us, i remember when you first went public, a lot of conversation of where the growth is coming for and since then the stock is up 1,000 , congratulations. Thank you so much. You bet, last year i move today hong kong for most of the year trying to understand better the market, but in that time we figured out something thats perhaps obvious which is thethe biggest brands in the world want to advertise more in china, largest surge in middle class in china, in fact, over 1 years 10 years they will create middle class. Maria wow. Cocacola, nike, you want to be tapping into a large surge in middle class because they are Global Companies and we help Global Companies . Given the fact that companies that want to get a foothold in china so far can only do it thr
Think your job has its ups and downs… How’d you like to be a lipstick tester? (You should see the rest of him!) For me it is off to Birmingham tomorrow, where no lipstick testing is on the agenda, but I am sure that one of the topics at the MBA of Alabama Conference will be how best to lend in an era of constrained supply of houses to buy. But that may be changing: Florida is seeing its inventory of homes for sale skyrocket and price growth stagnate, largely due to homebuilders rushing to accommodate a flood of newcomers. Because we’ve done such a great job keeping building costs on land down, while at the same time not polluting our oceans, let’s build a floating city for 20,000. (Sarcasm font required.) Whether it is real estate, beer cans, or the value of companies, values are determined by supply and demand, so here’s something interesting: Berkshire Hathaway’s cash pile has hit a record as Warren Buffett cut its stake in Apple, a company t