Comment by JackYoustra
18 hours ago
if someone believes this, they should buy intel and just do it outright! But no one does because it's not as easy as "just think long term" - if it were, berkshire has the liquid money to buy intel several times over.
A large new powerful shareholder come in supporting long term thinking does make a difference.
Public shareholders are generally short term motivated.
One clear reason it doesn't make as much sense to Buffet is he wouldn't get the national security hedge that made the stock a buy for the government.