Buffett Now Holds $366B in Cash — Here's Why That's Terrifying
Warren Buffett just bought back $4.5 billion of Berkshire stock and is sitting on a record $366 billion in cash. The last 3 times he hoarded this much, the market corrected by at least 20%. What we cover: - Berkshire's $4.5B share buyback: what it signals about market valuations - The $366B cash pile in context — double the pre-2020 average - S&P 500 CAPE ratio above 32: how 2026 compares to 1999 and 2021 peaks - Why Buffett himself says it's harder to find attractive deals right now If the greatest value investor of all time can't find anything worth buying, what does that tell us about this market? Sources: Berkshire 10-Q (Aug 2026), Bloomberg / Motley Fool (Aug 2026), Robert Shiller CAPE data (Aug 2026) #warrenbuffett #stockmarket #investing #berkshirehathaway #marketcrash
About Robert Shiller
Robert James Shiller (born March 29, 1946) is an American economist, academic, and author. As of 2022, he served as a Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University and is a fellow at the Yale School of Management's International Center for Finance. Shiller has been a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) since 1980, was vice president of the American Economic Association in 2005, its president for 2016, and president of the Eastern Economic Association for 20...
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