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Buffett Adds Another 3.9 Million Apple Shares, Cuts IBM, Wells Fargo Holdings: Full Q3 Holdings

Buffett Adds Another 3.9 Million Apple Shares, Cuts IBM, Wells Fargo Holdings: Full Q3 Holdings

Traditionally one of the most boring, and telegraphed 13-Fs, today's update of Berkshire holdings did not contain any major surprises, well maybe with one exception: while it was already well-known that at the end of June Buffett converted roughly 700 million Bank of America preferred shares into common, which now appear on Berkshire's 13F, there were two notable changes.

Venezuela's Grim Reaper: A Current Inflation Measurement - Current Annual Rate 2977%

Venezuela's Grim Reaper: A Current Inflation Measurement - Current Annual Rate 2977%

Authored by Steve H. Hanke of the Johns Hopkins University. Follow him on Twitter @Steve_Hanke.

The Grim Reaper has taken his scythe to the Venezuelan bolivar. The death of the bolivar is depicted in the following chart. A bolivar is worthless, and with its collapse, Venezuela is witnessing the world’s worst inflation. 

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