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The current pandemic was predicted by many experts. Obama even set up a task force to prepare.

That didn't stop idiots ignoring expert predictions. One orange idiot in particular disbanded the task force to save millions of dollars, and cost the US economy billions because of the slow response to a highly predictable disaster.

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You can't predict when it will happen or how it will happen. Not quite the same as this problem Nasdaq is facing.

It's actually fairly comparable. In both cases, it's likely to happen at some point, you don't know when but by the time it gets close to being a problem you dont have that much time to make the necessary changes.

The stock price of BRK has been grinding higher gradually for a year and was within reach months ago. That this could happen should've been on the radar for a long time and it's definitely a failure if this was a "surprise"

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