Links worth investing in : Taiwan-divided from the inside, Warren's hard numbers, and robot warfare arrives

Further reading for the weekend : what next for gold prices ($3600?), Bitcoin as an entropy hedge, and plunging UK IPOs

Factoids

Warren Buffett rides off into the sunset. He’s left behind some extraordinary numbers. First off: 5,502,284 % is the overall gain from 1964 to 2024 in Berkshire Hathaway's per-share market value. (The exact figure for the S&P 500 stock index, with dividends included, is 39,054%.) That translates to an annualised return of nearly 20%, almost doub…