Since I read that little factoid about $1000 placed into Warren Buffets partnership in 1957 would today be worth $51,356,784, I keep having this same dream over and over again.
In 1957 I didn't really have $1000 available for investing or anything else, but I probably had a little change in my pocket that my Mom gave me to go to the corner store for candy or maybe a pack of baseball cards.* On a real good day I may have had as much as one dollar!!*  So in my dream I'm on the way to the store when this older gentleman calls out to me. "Pssst, hey little boy, wanna invest in my partnership?" Being way to smart for that I say "hell no, I'm going to buy candy."
So years later I'm at a class reunion and the class nerd drives up in a new corvette.* I asked him where he got the cash for that and he says he had invested a dollar with Warren Buffet in 1957.* So I let him know that you can't buy a car like that with a one dollar investment.* So he whips out a calculator and shows me how his one dollar investment grew to $51,356.* He said he still had a few bucks left so he took me out for a few beers and told me about the magic of compounding. Wow that was really dry stuff.* Later on I showed him the baseball card of Yogi Berra I had bought that day. His eyes got big as saucers and he got all red in the face and told me that* he was an professional collector and that the card was worth- - - Bout then the alarm goes off and I've lost the whole thing.
Can anyone tell me what that card was worth? 
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