
2001-Morning Session-BRK Annual Shareholders Meeting
Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meetings (since 1994)
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Reinsurance - Do You Need an Annual Schedule to Disclose Significant Items?
We record a usually quite significant loss in the current year and then we have the use of float for many years to come. There are no subsequent charges against that. I would expect the cost of float actually to come down substantially this year. We can buy up to 5% of the stock, but we might well in the last year or two have bought an entire utility business if we were not handicapped by the utility holding company statute.
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