Struggling. I'm struggling this morning with some of the things that Warren Buffett is doing with his cash these days. I am struggling because he is selling America, selling Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) and Procter & Gamble(PG), selling ConocoPhillips(COP) and selling U.S. Bancorp(USB).

What's more American than these stocks? These are not small trimmings. He sold more than half of his 52 million shares of Johnson & Johnson and he sold it at a 20-year low relative to its yield. That doesn't sound like "Buy America." That sounds like "Sell America." Yet, on Oct. 16, 2008, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average at 9000 and the S&P 500 at 950, Buffett penned a now-famous op-ed submission to The New York Times saying it was time to buy America. Those who bought America that day are feeling ... well, downright un-American. Or at least they're feeling poorer.

Struggling. I'm struggling this morning with some of the things that Warren Buffett is doing with his cash these days. I am struggling because he is selling America, selling Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) and Procter & Gamble(PG), selling ConocoPhillips(COP) and selling U.S. Bancorp(USB).

Struggling. I'm struggling this morning with some of the things that Warren Buffett is doing with his cash these days. I am struggling because he is selling America, selling Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) and Procter & Gamble(PG), selling ConocoPhillips(COP) and selling U.S. Bancorp(USB).

I think that Buffett's actions should be scrutinized just like anyone else's. I have been turned on to this view by my good friend Doug Kass, who has been on this case for months now. In fact, I have talked to the editors and we are starting a "Buffett Watch" to see what is happening with Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A) as it lurches from Johnson & Johnson and U.S. Bancorp to General Electric (GE) and Goldman Sachs (GS) and Tiffany(TIF) and Harley-Davidson(HOG).

I think that Buffett's actions should be scrutinized just like anyone else's. I have been turned on to this view by my good friend Doug Kass, who has been on this case for months now. In fact, I have talked to the editors and we are starting a "Buffett Watch" to see what is happening with Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A) as it lurches from Johnson & Johnson and U.S. Bancorp to General Electric (GE) and Goldman Sachs (GS) and Tiffany(TIF) and Harley-Davidson(HOG).

I think that Buffett's actions should be scrutinized just like anyone else's. I have been turned on to this view by my good friend Doug Kass, who has been on this case for months now. In fact, I have talked to the editors and we are starting a "Buffett Watch" to see what is happening with Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A) as it lurches from Johnson & Johnson and U.S. Bancorp to General Electric (GE) and Goldman Sachs (GS) and Tiffany(TIF) and Harley-Davidson(HOG).

I think that Buffett's actions should be scrutinized just like anyone else's. I have been turned on to this view by my good friend Doug Kass, who has been on this case for months now. In fact, I have talked to the editors and we are starting a "Buffett Watch" to see what is happening with Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A) as it lurches from Johnson & Johnson and U.S. Bancorp to General Electric (GE) and Goldman Sachs (GS) and Tiffany(TIF) and Harley-Davidson(HOG).