Berkshire's purchases of Fruit of the Loom debt indirectly reduced its purchase price for the whole company by a small amount.
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Reasoning
The indirect price effect of the debt purchases is known only to Berkshire.
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Warren Buffett, “Berkshire's purchases of Fruit of the Loom debt indirectly reduced its purchase price for the whole company by a small amount.” (said 28 February 2002). Verdict: own records only. Reliability API, claim c_313922d9bd47, method 0.1.0+28da144b, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_313922d9bd47
This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.
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