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Tom Gayner, Co-CEO of Markel discusses the evolution of Markel into a Fortune 500 company, the secret to success in the investment business and much more…

The World According to Boyar

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What's Up With Eskimo Pie?

The Austrian government sold some hundred year bonds in 2021. The coupon on it, if memory service was 0.85%, 0.85 for a hundred year bond. Those bonds today are trading at about 48%. Some people call that bond investing safe. Well, if you go down and are buying a two year treasury at 3.7 or something like that, okay, I get that that's pretty safe. But to put money out for a hundred years at a 0.85% interest rate just strikes me as silly.

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