Live From Omaha, It’s Warren Buffett on Saturday Night
The Oracle of Omaha is still a believer in America's future, but the pandemic does seem to be changing his investing mindset.
Even billionaires like Warren Buffett need a haircut when they are on lockdown.
Photographer: Andrew Harrer/BloombergIt’s what we all needed to hear: “Nothing can stop America” — Warren Buffett’s way of saying, “We will get through this.”
Saturday evenings aren’t normally the ideal time for tuning into a multi-hour investor conference, especially after being cooped up all week working from home due to the Covid-19 pandemic. But mere minutes into the live-streamed Berkshire Hathaway Inc. annual shareholder meeting, it was clear that something much more meaningful was unfolding. Buffett, sitting on a stage in an empty Omaha arena, began with a history lesson like no other — a vivid walk through the other moments in America’s past that tested its resiliency, but never broke it. At 89 years old, he’s lived through many of them.