On Monday, February 27th, billionaire investor Warren Buffett joined CNBC’s Becky Quick for his tenth annual “Ask Warren” appearance in a special edition of CNBC’s signature morning program “Squawk Box”.
Throughout the Squawk Box interview, the Berkshire Hathaway Chairman and CEO answered questions submitted by viewers via Twitter and Facebook. The appearance included Buffett’s first comments on the Berkshires’s latest report on its stock holdings, showing it has invested over nine billion dollars in the airlines and is now one of Apple’s ten biggest investors. Buffett gave a very wide-ranging interview, covering topics like the economy, self-driving cars, and Twitter.
See below 30 snippets from the 3 hour long interview, or download a transcript of the entire interview for FREE:
1. American Dynamism: The Dominant Theme of Buffett’s Life
2. When Measured Against Interest Rates, Stocks Are Actually on the Cheap Side
3. Our Market System is Why America Succeeds
4. There Are Wonderful Assets Out There In the Stock Market
5 & 6. On Apple
6. On Airlines
7. On Dow Chemical
8. On Suits
9. On March Madness
10. Don’t Mix Politics with Investing
11. The President’s Number 1 Job is to Keep America Safe
12. The Economy Will Be Better Off 4 Years from Now
13. On Free Trade
14. The Inside Scoop on the Kraft Unilever Deal
15. On 3G Capital
16. Low Interest Rates and Europe
17. On Self-Driving Cars
18. On 50 Year Bonds
19. On Insurance Catastrophes
20. On the Importance of Government-Backed Mortgages
21. On Selling Stocks
22. On Jeff Bezos
23. On Newspapers and Tweeting
24. On 30 Year Bonds
25. On Wells Fargo
26. On Active vs. Know Nothing Investing
27. The “2 and 20” Hedge Fund Fee Model is Obscene
28. You Don’t Have to Be Special to Invest in Index Funds
29. On The Long Run vs. The Short Run
30. On the Status of the Economy and What Drives Growth
