Buffett's latest interview: Criticizing the current market speculation trend, admitting to personally leading the investment in Google BlockBeats News: On July 16th, in the latest interview, "Stock God" Warren Buffett expressed his views on multiple topics such as market environment, technology investment, and Federal Reserve personnel. Buffett criticized the current market environment for being difficult to discover value, stating that the market is increasingly driven by speculative trading rather than long-term investment concepts. "When everyone prefers gambling, it is difficult to find something valuable." Earlier this year, he also described the stock market as a church with a casino attached, and specifically pointed out that single day option trading is gambling behavior. Since the beginning of this year, despite the energy shock caused by the US Iran conflict, the three major US stock indices have continued to hit new highs. AI infrastructure related stocks have been accused of excessive speculation, and retail investors have flooded into targets such as Micron Technology and SpaceX on a large scale. Buffett, who has been practicing value investing for a long time, said that truly meaningful investment opportunities are not common and require patience and discipline - "Sometimes opportunities are too fast to seize, but at other times, finding one in a few years is already lucky. Because humans love gambling very much, the funds brought by cultivating gamblers are more than those brought by cultivating investors." Buffett admitted to personally leading the investment in Google. Buffett said that Berkshire Hathaway's recent large-scale investment in Google was personally driven by him, not by the CEO The successor Greg Abel will lead, but 'I won't do anything he doesn't approve of, and he won't do anything I don't approve of. The ultimate decision maker is him.' Berkshire Hathaway has been increasing its holdings in Google since the third quarter of 2025 and participated in its $10 billion private placement earlier this year. Buffett admitted that the key to investing is to find companies that can consistently achieve high capital returns over a long period of time, and admitted that he made a mistake by not investing in Google earlier. He recalled that although he saw the success of Google's advertising business through Geico in 2018, he was unsure whether it could become a long-term winner at the time. However, he also stated that Google is not his favorite position, "I don't like it as much as at least four or five other companies we hold," and pointed out that the hundreds of billions of dollars in capital investment in the field of artificial intelligence are a key issue faced by Google and all competitors - "when they developed software in the past, they weren't playing this game." When it comes to the new Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Walsh, Buffett praised it as a "good option. During his first meeting in June, Walsh demonstrated a policy style by proposing adjustments to the central bank's policy framework while keeping interest rates unchanged. He also promised to push the Federal Reserve to "change direction" and address inflation during congressional hearings. Buffett said, "I believe he will do his best to complete the task assigned to him, which is to achieve the 2% inflation target while maintaining maximum employment. He cannot be perfect, just as I know I cannot manage others' funds perfectly and consistently achieve excess returns. Walsh cares about this country, which does not mean that his decisions are always right, but the reason is that sometimes making these decisions can be very difficult