Warren Buffett famously compared the perfect business (and we paraphrase here) to sole ownership of the only source of water on an inhabited island.

The S&P 500 delivered its strongest quarterly performance since 2020 this past quarter, ascending its tech-built scaffolding to dizzying heights. Though we took a bit of a drubbing in the process, we nonetheless got down to business.

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