Book value

Book value is total assets minus total liabilities on the balance sheet, what shareholders own on paper. For a bank it means something, and a bank below book is the market doubting its loans; for Nvidia it means little. Banks sit on the near-dated side of the rates line, and the Buffett piece is the long version of why book value stopped being enough.

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