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Why Smart Investors Intentionally Lose Money

Warren Buffett walked away from more good-looking deals than most investors ever see — on purpose. This episode digs into why the sharpest investors are willing to "lose" the deal, the rally, or the hype cycle rather than risk their principal on a bet that isn't cheap enough. We break down Buffett's margin of safety (his own bridge analogy: you don't build a bridge rated for exactly your truck's weight — you build in room for what you didn't see coming), why "price is what you pay, value is what you get" changes how you look at every stock on your watchlist, and how Coca-Cola's economic moat let Buffett calculate a $59.16-per-share intrinsic value in 1988 — then still refuse to pay full price for it. We also walk through the accounting red flags forensic investors use to catch a company dressing up its numbers before the moat quietly disappears, the way Kodak's once did.

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