Warren Buffett and Greg Abel walkthrough the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting in Omaha, Nebraska on May 3, 2025.
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THE UNTHINKABLE HAS HAPPENED. The last honest man in American finance has stepped down, leaving a $1 TRILLION empire in the hands of a corporate bureaucrat while the markets teeter on the brink of a values COLLAPSE. Warren Buffett’s “retirement” isn’t a transition—it’s a SURRENDER, a deafening admission that the era of principled capitalism is DEAD.
For decades, Buffett was the TOOTHLESS regulatory watchdog Wall Street never had, a folksy billionaire who preached patience while others gorged on speculation. Now, with Greg Abel at the helm, the curtain has been pulled back. The so-called “Oracle of Omaha” is abandoning ship, taking with him the last vestiges of TRUST and leaving shareholders holding a bag of CASH he was too SCARED to deploy. This isn’t succession; it’s a controlled demolition.
Insiders are WHISPERING what the sycophantic financial press won’t say: Abel is a company man, a risk-averse accountant utterly incapable of Buffett’s legendary gut-driven bets. The $381 BILLION cash hoard isn’t “prudence”—it’s a monument to PARALYSIS. For twelve straight quarters, Buffett has been a NET SELLER, a shocking retreat that screams he sees NO FUTURE worth buying into. What does HE know that YOU don’t?
The “Woodstock for Capitalists” is over. The sage advice is silenced. What remains is a hollow shell, a rudderless conglomerate doomed to mimic the short-term greed Buffett famously despised. The greatest investor in history didn’t just leave his company—he abandoned a financial system he no longer believes in. The final lesson is the most terrifying: if WARREN BUFFETT has lost faith, what hope is left for the rest of us?




