Germany: Much More Than Financials
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🗓️ 6 May 2015
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Matt Koppenheffer returns from Berlin and to discuss the innovation driving the technology industry in Germany. He also analyzes what separates German banks from U.S. banks, why Warren Buffett is focused on buying a company in Germany in the next 5 years, and why one of the best things about living in Berlin is the bread. To read more about the investing scene in Germany, check out our free site at www.fool.de
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, May 6th. |
| 0:03.4 | Welcome to Market Foolry. |
| 0:04.6 | I'm Chris Hill journey joining me in studio today. |
| 0:07.2 | All the way from Berlin. |
| 0:09.2 | Fool Germany, it's Matt Copenhagen, Helfer. |
| 0:11.3 | Gooten-Tog, Chris. |
| 0:13.0 | That's going to be the extent of the German spoken on this episode, I hope, because one of my kids |
| 0:19.3 | takes German and has taken it for a bunch of years and I've retained. |
| 0:21.9 | Really? That's great. Yeah, so. is taking it for a bunch of years and I've retained almost nothing. |
| 0:22.6 | That's great. |
| 0:23.3 | Yeah, so. |
| 0:24.2 | That is, I feel really good about, I took eight years of German |
| 0:27.8 | through high school and college. |
| 0:29.3 | Nobody else, everybody else is doing the quote unquote normal thing of taking French or Spanish. |
| 0:35.0 | I took German. |
| 0:36.0 | It's treated me pretty well. |
| 0:37.0 | I was going to say that's probably serving you well now that you're in Berlin. |
| 0:41.0 | I studied a decade ago. |
| 0:42.0 | I forgot. It didn't come back immediately. |
| 0:44.0 | It did not come back. It's not really like riding a bike. |
| 0:47.0 | We're going to talk about investing in Germany, but let's talk a little bit about your weekend because you like others here at the full went to the Berkshire Hathaway meeting |
| 0:57.2 | One of the things that was making some headlines and I know was of great interest to you was Warren Buffett's comments was basically yeah we're we're gonna buy a German company in the next five years he said |
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