During Berkshire Hathaway's 2026 annual shareholders meeting, Warren Buffett, in an interview with CNBC, expressed concern about the prevalent risk-taking culture in current financial markets. He likened the market to a church with an attached casino, emphasizing that "the casino has become very attractive to people," and referred to it as "gambling" rather than investing or speculating. Buffett noted that while this doesn't mean investing itself is bad, the prices of many assets will appear "very ridiculous." His preferred "Buffett Indicator" (the ratio of total U.S. stock market capitalization to GDP) recently hit a new historical high of 232%, far exceeding the "playing with fire" threshold of 200% he once mentioned. Additionally, the S&P 500 Shiller CAPE Ratio has consistently remained above 40 since May, approaching its historical peak, a level previously only reached on the eve of the dot-com bubble burst.