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Buffett also sees better opportunities now in the stock market that he did a year ago. That's really no surprise given the big decline in stock prices over that time.
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They are just two of the many comments Buffett made during a series of live appearances with CNBC's Becky Quick throughout this morning's three hours of Squawk Box following last night's premiere of an anti-deficit documentary that includes comments from Buffett.
Among the highlights:
- Berkshire has no direct currency plays right now, including no bets against the U.S. dollar
- Repeats his belief the U.S. economic downturn will be longer and deeper than many people think
- The economy won't be better five months from now, but will rebound within the next five years
- Fed has a very tough job fighting inflation, which he expects will continue to rise
- No immediate interest in making an investment in Canadian oil sands, although he did find his tour of northeastern Alberta this week very interesting
- In retrospect, he made a mistake when he sold a large chunk of his Anheuser-Busch [BUD
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] stake before the brewer agreed to a friendly deal with InBev. Buffett said he wasn't sure the deal would go through given Anheuser's initial resistance to InBev's offer
- Made a $500 million bid for a Chinese asset that was rejected, but won't say what it was
- Expects government action to bail out Fannie Mae [FNM
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], although there's a "reasonable chance" shares of the two GSEs will eventually go to zero
- Urges contributors to the John Edwards presidential campaign to file a class-action suit seeking the return of their money because Edwards "misled" them about his extra-marital affair
Current Berkshire stock prices:
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