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Buffett on Buybacks & Moats

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🗓️ 8 May 2018

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Matt Koppenheffer returns! We discuss last week’s Berkshire-Hathaway meeting and Warren Buffett’s comments on Apple’s stock buyback plan and why he prefers moats. Plus, Matt analyzes Buffett’s push into Germany’s real estate market and the latest twist in Volkswagen’s emission scandal.

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It's Tuesday, May 8th.

0:20.3

Welcome to Market Foolery.

0:21.3

I'm Chris Hill. Special guest in the studio today and by special I mean he comes by about once a year.

0:29.1

From Fool Germany it's Matt Copenhagen Heffer. Good to see you.

0:32.1

Guten tag and hello Chris. Good to see you. Guten Togg and hollow, Chris.

0:34.0

Thanks for being here, man.

0:35.0

I'm so glad to be here.

0:37.0

This is great.

0:38.0

A bunch of things I want to talk to you about,

0:41.0

and we will get to some of the things that are going on in

0:43.9

Germany but we should probably start with the Berkshire Hathaway meeting which

0:48.0

happened over the weekend and that's a meeting you've been to it before many times

0:52.4

you've run you've been to it before. Many times.

0:53.0

You've run, you've run the, one of the companies that Berkshire Hathaway owns is Brooks, the

0:58.4

running shoe company.

1:01.2

You've run in the Brooks, Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting 5K and done quite well as I recall.

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