Trump Hater: Dud stock picks, bad industry bets, vast underperformance -- it’s the end of the Warren Buffett era

Buffet continuously undermined Trump.

Dud stock picks, bad industry bets, vast underperformance — it’s the end of the Warren Buffett era

Published: May 16, 2020 at 1:54 p.m. ET

...after profoundly underperforming the S&P 500 throughout the entire 11-year bull market, it’s fair to ask whether Buffett is still, well, Buffett. Even at the company’s virtual annual meeting, held in Omaha on May 2, some questions by shareholders, curated by CNBC’s Becky Quick, struck this listener as unusually sharp.

At times, Buffett seemed uncomfortable amid PowerPoint slides and the absence of his longtime friend and business partner, Charlie Munger, who didn’t make the trip. His bullish comments about America seemed oddly discordant while a pandemic ravages our economy.

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