
1997-Afternoon Session-BRK Annual Shareholders Meeting
Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meetings (since 1994)
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The Effect of Inflation on Cash Flows
The risk-free rate is used merely to equate one item to another. It doesn't mean we want to buy government bonds. But it's the appropriate yardstick in our view to compare across all kinds of investment opportunities. In our insurance business, we really have a group of insurance businesses. And they have different characteristics. The consistent characteristic actually is that they're all very, very good businesses.
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