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A Shocked Warren Buffett Sees ‘Significant’ Inflation: ‘The Costs Are Up, Up, Up. We’re Seeing Substantial Inflation’
TG ^ | 5/2/2021 | Evan

Posted on 05/02/2021 4:33:39 PM PDT by wrrock

Speaking to Berkshire’s millions of shareholders on Saturday, Buffett warned the company was being hit by inflationary pressures:

“We’re seeing very substantial inflation – it’s very interesting. I mean, we’re raising prices. People are raising prices to us. And it’s being accepted.”

“The costs are just up, up, up. Steel costs, you know, just every day, they’re going up.”

“And it just won’t stop! People have money in their pocket, and they pay the higher prices… There’s more inflation going on that people would have anticipated six months ago or thereabouts.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: berkshirehathaway; buffett; economy; inflation; lumber; sharholdersmeeting; shrinkflation; stagflation; steel
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1 posted on 05/02/2021 4:33:39 PM PDT by wrrock
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To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; ...

duh, Warren...
who’d a thunk...


2 posted on 05/02/2021 4:36:43 PM PDT by bitt (People who wonder if the glass is half empty or half full miss the point. The glass is refillable.)
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To: wrrock

The supply chain is broken.

Container ships are stacked out for weeks/months.

If you think the toilet paper shortage was bad, wait until you see what comes next.


3 posted on 05/02/2021 4:38:12 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Anti-racism looks suspiciously like racism.)
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To: wrrock

Yeah, it’s a real shocker. /s


4 posted on 05/02/2021 4:39:52 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. .... )
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To: wrrock

“There’s more inflation going on that people would have anticipated six months ago or thereabouts.””

Oh really? Give that man a FReeper ID.


5 posted on 05/02/2021 4:41:14 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: wrrock

See, see! Trump’s racist and homophobic tweets again!


6 posted on 05/02/2021 4:42:39 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Free Republic: The Internet's 1st social media platform. Since 1996.)
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To: wrrock

Last year when I bought a bag of Blue Magic(aluminum sulfate) for my blueberry bushes the price was $9.99. This year the same bag was $11.99.


7 posted on 05/02/2021 4:43:53 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (I voted for prosperity, and I got poverty.)
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To: wrrock

This has already been posted earlier. Even earlier, I posted that we’re going to hyperinflation. Wasn’t much interest in discussing it. It’s going to be an interesting world pretty soon.


8 posted on 05/02/2021 4:44:12 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: wrrock

Duh!


9 posted on 05/02/2021 4:46:50 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (RIP my "teddy bear". )
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To: wrrock

No doubt about it.


10 posted on 05/02/2021 4:50:21 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Where's the breakdown?

Stuff is making it to the US but just sitting in port.

I don't see any empty shelves, but I live in a rural area.

I did read that longshoremen in CA were staging a slowdown.

11 posted on 05/02/2021 4:52:51 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix circa 1984.)
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To: wrrock

,,,the Tea in China.


12 posted on 05/02/2021 4:55:25 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (Be Still and Know that I Am God. Rev 19)
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To: bitt

He’s willfully ignorant. I find it hard to believe he is surprised by this.


13 posted on 05/02/2021 4:55:26 PM PDT by hsmomx3
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Well, with any luck, Biden will name Harris to deal with it.......after all, she was sooooo so successful dealing with the border (/s).


14 posted on 05/02/2021 4:55:55 PM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. )
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To: bitt

Buffet you must be a genius and I bet you don’t pump your own gas or buy your own toilet paper. The likes of the Bidens and Buffets and Romneys never experience inflation like the working class.... but he is correct that all these non working people who are getting the variety of checks from unemployment and Sugar Daddy Biden’s subsidy checks are not experiencing this inflation now, but are being baited onto the democrat plantation. Once in and the trap springs and free money is cut off and the inflation parasite now makes them totally dependent on the government for even toilet paper but it is too late. Their reaction will be “WHAT HAPPENED” and the answer will be, “TRUMP’S FAULT”.

Mice never figure out why the cheese is free until it is too... “SNAP”.... late.


15 posted on 05/02/2021 5:00:30 PM PDT by DOC44
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To: wrrock

This little nobody can see it coming with currency presses working overtime for Biteme’s insane economic policies. Sheesh.


16 posted on 05/02/2021 5:01:34 PM PDT by A Navy Vet (USA Birth Certificate - 1787. Death Certificate - 2021 under Biteme.)
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To: wrrock

“The Oracle from Omaha...”


17 posted on 05/02/2021 5:03:03 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. .... )
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Have you seen the pictures of currency blowing in the streets of Venezuela like so much trash? What amazes me is that there are still countries in the world that continue to lend money to the United States .


18 posted on 05/02/2021 5:04:03 PM PDT by Nateman (Keep Liberty Alive! Article V!)
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To: wrrock
"People have money in their pocket"

Does that include the millions out of work from State shut downs? Or is thinking of the continuing un-employment and freebie checks from the Fedgov?

19 posted on 05/02/2021 5:05:46 PM PDT by A Navy Vet (USA Birth Certificate - 1787. Death Certificate - 2021 under Biteme.)
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To: wrrock

Thanks, Sherlock. How’d you crack that one?


20 posted on 05/02/2021 5:09:21 PM PDT by mykroar (God speed, President Trump)
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