Warren Buffett recently told his shareholders that they should expect stock in his company to lose 50% of it's value sometime in the near future.

The first apple did'nt even have a case for the electronics and they presented it to those were the initial shareholders....

Under US Tax law, C corporation are not "pass through" entities - meaning there are 2 layers of tax - one layer at the entity level (the corporate tax) and one layer at the shareholder level (the tax on dividends). 

S-corps have a list of eligible shareholders and can be a SMLLC if owned by a US citizen or permanent resident.

With many of them providing quarterly and even MONTHLY dividends to their share holders...it begs the question why a passive investor would bother investing in a syndication, doesn't it?

No different than stocks, it'll be hard for a stock to go up too much if all the profit is being paid out in shareholder dividends, right? 

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I simply don't get that, at all.Yes, Zillow is a publicly traded company, and yes, we need to please shareholders (and customers too).

It has shareholders... some of which aren't me.

For the most part, however, Delaware's court excel in interpreting their rich corporate code, so corporate types prefer to be in their courts for shareholder disputes because there is a low chance that the judge will drop the ball on interpreting corporate charters or operating agreements or the like.