Things to Look Forward to the Week Ahead — Warren Buffett is Insane

Trump’s trade rhetoric might be front and center, especially after US naval ships had a ‘serious confrontation’ with the Chinese navy, this weekend near one of China’s man-made islands.

Also, we’ve got the N. Korean horseshit, Italian and Spanish political tensions, which may or may not blow out the spread between their bonds and German. The wider the blow out, the greater the perception is that the EU will crash and burn.

Also, coffee waste now fetches higher prices than coffee itself, which is fucking unbelievably stupid. You can thank Starbucks and their retarded Cascara drink, a beverage devoid of both flavor and caffeine.

I’m hoping oil will drop again, maybe leading a path towards a rally in consumer discretionary stocks. Retail has been suffering, but some have recently bucked the trend. Who am I kidding — retail is dead and retarded.

Lastly, just when I thought Warren Buffett couldn’t get folksier, he’d done did it again, doncha know?

Since 2004, those lunches have been hosted by famous steakhouse Smith & Wollensky. In fact, the restaurant is among Buffett’s favorites.

The menu at the Manhattan eatery touts decadent entrees like the roasted veal chop with lemon and thyme marmalade for $54, 15 oz. cold water lobster tails for $59 and a Cajun rib steak for $59, as well as $16 craft cocktails, such as the Pendennis Club, Wallbanger Revisited and the Salty Dog.

But Buffett’s palate isn’t very pretentious.

A 2007 winner of the auction says that Buffett orders “a medium-rare steak with hash browns and a cherry coke.” For dessert, he reportedly asked the waiter for a couple of spoons, explaining that he’ll have “a little of everyone’s.”

A spokesperson for Smith & Wollensky previously confirmed that this is indeed Buffett’s preferred meal at the restaurant and that his favorite cut of steak is a sirloin. The steak is priced at $49, while the hash browns cost $15.

An order of Cherry Coke is a classic soft drink choice for the billionaire.

Buffett, 87, has long been vocal about his love for Coke, and even told Fortune in 2015 that he is “one-quarter Coca-Cola.” The sharp-minded investor claims to drink at least five 12-ounce servings every day — three during the day and two at night. Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has a big stake in The Coca-Cola Company.

How did this man get away with this sort of behavior over 87 years?