Today's Journal
COCKROACH TROUBLE
Warren Buffet, American investor and philanthropist, said in a newsletter update to shareholders of Berkshire-Hathaway in 2003, “There is seldom just one cockroach in the kitchen.” He was asking his readers to beware of companies displaying weak accounting.In October of 2025, JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon remarked concerning the recent collapse of subprime auto-lenders Tricolor Holdings and debt-heavy auto-parts company First Brands has raised questions about the health of the credit market: “If you see one cockroach, there are probably more.”
Anyone who has had trouble with cockroaches (spiders, fleas, mites, ticks, mosquitoes, aphids… etc. knows that the principle is true: “When you see one cockroach, there are probably more.”
But it also true that if the principle of a good, fair, honest, careful, transparent, and faithful person is practiced and promoted… ‘When you see one righteous person, there are probably more.’
“All who do evil hate the light and refuse to go near it for fear their sins will be exposed. But those who do what is right come to the light so others can see that they are doing what God wants.” Jesus