Ask Warren Buffett

Squawk Pod

CNBC

Business News, Business, Investing, News

4.2 • 543 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Warren Buffett—the world’s most high-profile investor—sits down with Becky Quick at the Berkshire Hathaway headquarters in Omaha, Nebraska days after writing his latest annual letter to shareholders. Buffett weighs in on Mike Bloomberg’s bid for the Presidency and Berkshire Hathaway’s 5.6% stake in Apple. (And, he just graduated from a flip phone!) The 89-year old investor also shares the best time to buy stocks—even during the coronavirus outbreak. Plus, in a conversation exclusive to Squawk Pod, the Oracle of Omaha reveals what’s on his podcast feed and his unorthodox strategy for settling meal checks with fellow billionaire Bill Gates.

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0:00.0	Yep, here's Warren. Ready to go on time.
0:02.0	Bring in show music please.
0:04.0	This is Squawk Pod, the daily podcast brought to you by the team behind Squawk Box.
0:10.0	NYU, this is NBC Control 2.
0:12.0	See NBC's Essential Morning Show.
0:14.0	PCR2.
0:15.0	All right, we're coming to in next.
0:16.0	Today on Squawk Pod, Warren Buffett sits down with Becky Quick.
0:20.0	How are you? It's good.
0:21.0	Good. Doing fine.
0:22.0	The 89-year-old CEO and chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Good. always had the image that I am talking to my sisters. I have two sisters and I
0:35.0	pretend they've been away for a year and I'm reporting to them on their
0:38.5	investment. So it's dear Doris and Bertie. After 55 of those letters Warren Buffett is still as hungry for stocks
0:45.0	today as he ever was.
0:46.0	The first day I bought stocks was March 12, 1942. There have been seven Republicans
0:50.8	after that and seven Democrats. I bought stocks under every one of them.
0:54.9	This is a special super-sized podcast with the Oracle of Omaha on thoughtful investing.
1:00.8	You get more trouble with a good idea than a bad idea because the good
1:04.7	idea works. American politics. You're not a card-carrying Democrat. That's true.
1:09.1	You are a card-carrying capitalist. You actually have one of those in your wallet.
1:13.0	Yeah.
1:14.0	And only on Squawk Pod, Warren Buffett's own podcast feed.
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