Inflation ‘Episodic’ and Fossil Fuels Are Never Going Away: Billionaire Investor

Inflation ‘Episodic’ and Fossil Fuels Are Never Going Away: Billionaire Investor
Berkshire Hathaway Chairman Warren Buffett (left) and Vice Chairman Charlie Munger are seen at the annual Berkshire shareholder shopping day in Omaha, Neb., on May 3, 2019. Scott Morgan/Reuters
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Charlie Munger, the vice chairman of Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway, is not particularly worried about inflation, and believes people will be using fossil fuels for a long time.

Inflation is “always with us in an episodic way,” Munger said in an interview published by the Australian Financial Review on July 12. “That’s what modernity causes. So, eventually, I assume every currency in the world will go down to nothing. That’s my basic cynical view.”