417- Berkshire Shareholder Meeting

InvestED: The Rule #1 Investing Podcast

Phil Town & Danielle Town

Investing, Business

4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

With the 2023 edition of the Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholders’ meeting in the books, it’s time to review the takeaways from the event. In an era of heightened uncertainty for markets around the world, what can we glean from the words of Buffett et al? The weekend saw over 30,000 investors descend upon Omaha to hear from the megacorp’s leadership and vie for the chance to pose a question to some of the world’s most successful business magnates. Covering topics ranging from AI and technology to geopolitics and the role of emotion in finance, the meeting’s Q&A session left attendees and listeners with a lot to digest. On this episode of InvestED, Phil and Danielle break down their takes on Berkshire’s big gathering and parse the wisdom from a couple of value investing heavy hitters. To learn more about Buffett, Munger, and others, click here for a free copy of the The Best Investors in the World: https://bit.ly/41kGW2g Topics Discussed: Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting President Biden’s stock buyback proposal Resources Discussed: Starlink Invested The Intelligent Investor The Tractatus Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:51.7	our internet is intermittent at work today. It's on one of those days and we've done
1:00.3	so many podcasts that I think we've been through pretty much most technical problems.
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1:10.8	like, okay, no internet. All right. Well, we've got like seven ways to deal with that.
1:17.9	Way number four. Oh, we didn't hit record. Oh, we'll we have a backup now because we've
1:24.0	lost recordings before. And that's the worst. Yeah, we're on Starlink. Oh, we don't really
1:31.9	have a good answer to that one actually. Let me plug you on. Let me let me plug you
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1:42.7	mean what people are attacking him or something. I think people aren't too happy with what
1:47.9	he's doing really around Twitter. Yeah, people. These are people. People. People. Some people.
1:53.3	It's like politicians always say the American people hate you and love me. It's like, dude,
1:59.6	no, they don't about 50% of them hate you and about 50% of them like you. That's probably
2:05.3	true about Elon Musk too. So what are you going to plug Starlink, which is, you know, we're
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