by Calculated Risk on 3/09/2009 08:51:00 AM
Monday, March 09, 2009
Buffett: Economy "has fallen off a cliff."
Warren Buffett is on CNBC this morning ...
From the CNBC live blog, a few Buffett comments:
6:05a: Economy is "close to the worst case." Can't imagine it being much worse ... The economy "has fallen off a cliff."Yes, all the graphs in the February summary showed the economy was cliff diving.
6:06a: Buffett says consumers are "scared and confused." He hasn't seen consumers, or Americans in general, as fearful as now. American people "feel they don't know what's going on" so they've pulled back.
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6:32a: Buffett says credit conditions are tightening again, but aren't as bad as they were last September.
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