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He's actually trading right now, you can watch him through a stream on his blog.

Not possible. Would be the easiest buy in history.

How will it be the death of Fiat? It costs them nothing. Daimler sold Chrysler long ago, how much was the loss?

Great deal for Fiat.

I'll make this simple (this site shouldn't be called elitetrader.com). Buffett gave GE/GS X amount of money. The companies give Berkshire 10% in interest a year forever or until they buy Berkshire out for the principle + 10%. This part has nothing to do with the common stock. The common of GS...

What? Do you really not understand what preferred stock are? His investment doesn't go down when the common goes down. He gets a 10% return per year on both investmens, pretty sweet return for the several billions he invested.

Lol at all the people thinking the GE and GS deals were bad for WB. He gets a freaking 10% dividend, and that's before the common stock gets anything. So who's the looser now? You realize he didn't buy the common at all? So it doesn't matter if it's down 90% since his purchase of preferred. His...

This is exactly what I'm worried about. USO isn't an ETF holding crude oil, they're buying future contracts. Where they make a loss on even when oil goes up.

It's actually possible for USO to go to (near) zero by the way it invests in futures. Oil may go up slightly or stay stagnant but USO will lose on the higher priced futures.

I'm not sure about it but it might be a hedge in case the SPY managers scam everyone and run off with the loot.

Name some of those cases please.

Good luck investing several tens of billion dollars without moving the market. Everytime Buffett tries to buy a business the shareholders get in an uproar because if they read Buffett's name they think he's bidding too little. Also about the options: they're European style. So why would he...

Your downside isn't unlimited. It's limited to the price of the underlying - premium.