Ark Invest CEO and Chief Investment Officer Cathie Wood discusses her newest launch: a venture firm for private investments, open to non-accredited investors. As international currencies like the British pound, South Korean won, Japanese yen, and euro all fall weaker against the dollar , Wood shares her firm’s perspective on recession and inflation. A famed tech investor, Wood explains her bullish five-year thesis on Tesla. Plus, mortgage rates keep going up, and three men are answering for a $1...
Sep 27, 2022•26 min
Are we on the wrong path in the fight against inflation? Wharton Business School professor Jeremy Siegel criticizes the Federal Reserve and its chairman, Jerome Powell, saying the U.S. central bank is moving too aggressively to fight inflation and will hurt American workers in the process. The British pound falls to historic lows against the U.S. dollar, sparking currency concerns around the globe. Plus, the new fee that car dealerships are trying out on auto lease consumers. In this episode: Ph...
Sep 26, 2022•24 min
A rough week ends on Wall Street as markets take a dive and bond years are surging. Why? Becky Quick and Melissa Lee take a closer look at the investor worries and the wonky numbers driving the market downturn. This comes after the Federal Reserve announced it will be raising interest rates 75 basis points. CNBC’s Steve Liesman explores the market reaction to the Fed’s decision and its global impact. Plus, Boeing has agreed to pay $200 million to settle charges over the two deadly crashes from i...
Sep 23, 2022•23 min
“Software plus heroism can really slay the giant,” Palantir CEO Alex Karp tells Andrew Ross Sorkin and Becky Quick in his analysis of how big data and technology have changed modern warfare. Karp is carefully watching Russia’s first military mobilization since World War II and the ongoing crisis in Ukraine; he thinks that countries around the world are taking notice of the new global order. The Federal Reserve has raised its benchmark interest rate 75 basis points and the world’s central banks a...
Sep 22, 2022•39 min
Patagonia’s founding family is redirecting their billions to fight climate change and preserve our Earth; the move has sparked conversation about ‘woke capitalism’ and a company’s impact on the world, versus its return to shareholders. Patagonia CEO Ryan Gellert discusses his predecessor’s choice to “make Earth its only shareholder,” and whether the drastic move will really make a difference. Axios co-founder Mike Allen discusses former President Trump’s strategy for announcing another run for o...
Sep 21, 2022•35 min
Investors are bracing for the Federal Reserve Open Market Committee meeting this week, ready for another policy announcement to curb inflation. Workers are returning to the office, but surveys show that in-person attendance is down, compared to pre-pandemic levels. New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy discusses the impact of New York’s return-to-office push on the Garden State commuters and taxpayers. New York Times reporter Kate Kelly details the in-person trends on Wall Street, the waves of layoffs...
Sep 20, 2022•30 min
In an interview over the weekend, President Biden discussed his plans for battling inflation and the American strategic response to Chinese aggression in Taiwan . Today, former SEC chair Jay Clayton responds to the President’s comments on the economy; instead of talking about rates of inflation and statistics, Clayton urges economists and lawmakers to start speaking in terms of the prices that Americans are paying for basic needs. Abroad, Presidents Putin and Xi are testing the strategic partner...
Sep 19, 2022•33 min
The Biden Administration, railroad companies and labor unions are sharing credit for averting a potentially expensive strike. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg discusses the close call, as well as the shadow persistent inflation cast on the negotiations and on the White House’s efforts to celebrate recent legislative wins. The stock markets were headed toward another down week as corporate leaders sound alarm bells for a potential recession. FedEx CEO Raj Subramaniam told CNBC the company ...
Sep 16, 2022•35 min
In an extended interview, Starwood Capital Chairman and CEO Barry Sternlicht warns that the economy is slowing, and considers what August’s hot inflation data could mean for the Federal Reserve’s next rate hike decision. The real estate mogul and investor discusses the current labor market, including wage pressures on the economy and the corporate push to return to in-person offices. Plus, in an eleventh hour deal, the Biden administration negotiated a stop to the planned railroad strike . In th...
Sep 15, 2022•35 min
Markets have their worst day since June 2020 following worse than expected inflation data. Squawk Box anchors Joe Kernen, Becky Quick and Andrew Ross Sorkin hit the impact of inflation on investors, the housing market, and the outlook for the Fed’s next interest rate decision. Members of Congress can buy and sell stocks with few restrictions, The New York Times’ Kate Kelly reports on the paper’s exhaustive analysis of lawmakers and their family members’ trades. Plus, Twitter’s whistleblower Peit...
Sep 14, 2022•29 min
Inflation in August rose more than economists were expecting, and the markets are reacting poorly. CNBC’s Steve Liesman, former Acting CEA Chair Tyler Goodspeed, and JPMorgan’s Meera Pandit discuss the repercussions of this data for the Fed’s next rate hikes and the labor market, in September and beyond. Millions of Americans are headed back to in-office work this week, and Walter Isaacson says, it’s about time. The Tulane professor discusses the shift in employer-employee negotiations. Isaacson...
Sep 13, 2022•35 min
77% mass shootings in America were committed with guns bought legally, the majority with credit cards. Four years ago in columns for The New York Times , Andrew Ross Sorkin suggested that credit card companies have the power to help spot dangerous patterns in U.S. firearms sales by categorizing gun purchases the same way retailers categorize transactions at hair salons, and movie theaters. Earlier this year Amalgamated Bank, a union-owned U.S. bank driven by social responsibility, proposed that ...
Sep 12, 2022•27 min
In Ohio, Intel is breaking ground at the sites of its two new semiconductor factories, marking a major shift in American manufacturing . Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger discusses the pivotal moment for the US chip industry, and why the factories in America’s heartland will boost national security. As the markets await Fed Chair Jay Powell’s next announcement later this month, Becky Quick, Joe Kernen, Andrew Ross Sorkin, and Steve Liesman break down the Fed’s aggressive policies to combat inflation, unde...
Sep 09, 2022•46 min
Apple has announced its new suite of products , from earbuds to phones and watches. It may look like the company hasn’t hiked prices in the US, but CNBC’s Jon Fortt explains, it’s all in the marketing. As employees across the country head back to the office, former SEC Chair Jay Clayton and investor and entrepreneur Kevin O’Leary discuss the WFH options now expected from existing talent and new workers. CNBC’s Steve Liesman crunches the numbers on long Covid’s long impact on our economy and work...
Sep 08, 2022•33 min
Starbucks founder and longtime on-and-off CEO Howard Schultz is finally, officially, handing over the chain’s reins to a new CEO: Laxman Narasimhan . Andrew Ross Sorkin sits down with both in Seattle and discusses Starbucks leadership and culture, inflation, China, and labor unions over a “not cheap” cup of coffee. Plus, Meta is gearing up to release some next gen technology, Russia is tightening its literal power grip, and the markets are hitting all kinds of highs–and lows. In this episode: Ho...
Sep 07, 2022•33 min
OPEC+ has announced a cut to production, surprising an already shocked global energy system. Russia has shut down oil flows to Europe through Nord Stream Pipeline 1, indefinitely. State Department official, Special Presidential Coordinator for International Energy Affairs Amos Hochstein, discusses energy geopolitics amid Europe’s deepening crisis. The United Kingdom has a new Prime Minister in Liz Truss , and CVS is buying home health giant Signify. Plus, the two highest-paid influencers on TikT...
Sep 06, 2022•38 min
The Labor Department released the number of American jobs added in August: 315,000. Only slightly below expectations, CNBC’s Steve Liesman and former CEA member Tyler Goodspeed consider what the report means for the Federal Reserve’s next rate hike. According to a new study by a group of professors, commission-free trades might not be free. UCLA Irvine Professor Christopher Schwartz explains the study, the fee and payout discrepancies between brokerages, and shares the best and the worst firms f...
Sep 02, 2022•26 min
In an extended interview, Carlyle Group co-founder David Rubenstein discusses his new book, "How to Invest: Masters on the Craft,” featuring his own interviews with the world’s best investors, including Larry Fink, Ron Baron, Sam Zell, Mary Callahan Erdoes, Ray Dalio, Stan Drunkenmiller, and John Rogers. As markets digest rate hikes from the U.S. Federal Reserve, a new lockdown in China , and Europe’s ongoing energy crisis, Rubenstein offers his best bets at this point in the cycle: health care,...
Sep 01, 2022•36 min
Majority state-owned Russian Gazprom has shut down gas flows through Nord Stream 1 pipeline, an energy lifeline for much of Europe. CNBC’s Joumanna Bercetche reports on the evolving crisis abroad. Stateside, Vivek Ramaswamy, founder of Strive Asset Management, and Christy Goldfuss, a former Obama energy official now at the Center for American Progress discuss energy politics and ESG investments at home and in Europe. CNBC’s Phil LeBeau reports on another energy story here at home: hydrogen fuel ...
Aug 31, 2022•27 min
Kyle Bass, founder and CIO of the global events-focused hedge fund Hayman Capital Management, discusses Europe’s energy crisis , China’s tenuous path forward, and how both are affecting his portfolio strategy. As employees gear up for a employer-mandated return to the office, Korn Ferry’s Alan Guarino and journalist and Yale lecturer Joanne Lipman discuss politics, power, and pressures of a 2022 workplace. Plus, Tesla is in the crosshairs of a labor debate , Peloton’s lost its trading momentum, ...
Aug 30, 2022•39 min
After Fed Chair Jay Powell spooked the markets with his comments in Jackson Hole, Joe Kernen, Mike Santoli, and Hightower’s Stephanie Link consider the next moves for the markets as the central bank fights inflation . Mohamed El-Erian, Allianz and Gramercy advisor and president of Queens’ College, Cambridge, shares his perspective on Powell’s aggressive policies to curb inflation. Plus, NASA’s Artemis I is eyeing the moon! The launch–when/if it happens–will be a crucial step in humankind’s first...
Aug 29, 2022•29 min
At this year’s Jackson Hole meeting Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell has assured the U.S. that the central bank will continue hiking interest rates to ease inflation, even if it prompts an economic slowdown. Jason Furman, former chair of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisors and a speaker at that same Jackson Hole meeting, discusses the various players working to lower inflation: the Fed, the Biden Administration, and Congress. Furman and Steve Liesman consider the labor market and the ...
Aug 26, 2022•31 min
The legendary buy-and-hold investor says there has never been a better time to buy stocks and invest in the U.S. markets. In an extended interview, the Baron Capital Chairman and CEO said he’s been picking up bargains since the market rebounded from a June low point. Baron correctly called the comeback in stocks and now he is sharing what he’s been buying: growth companies that hedge against inflation. Plus, the Biden administration’s plan for student loan forgiveness brings back discussions of ...
Aug 25, 2022•37 min
President Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan has alarmed investors who worry that the policy will be inflationary for our economy. Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT), the Senate’s longest-serving lawmaker and the body’s president pro tempore, explains how the forgiveness will work, and what the limitations will be. As he reflects on his retirement and on the future of the United States, airing his concerns about our trajectory as a nation. As markets continue their volatile summer, Joe, Becky, and ...
Aug 24, 2022•37 min
Markets suffered the worst day since June as investor confidence wavers ahead of the Federal Reserve’s annual meeting in Jackson Hole. Joe Kernen and Andrew Ross Sorkin break down the rough trading day and Wall Street’s expectations for the rest of this week; Morgan Stanley’s Chief Investment Officer Mike Wilson offers some perspective on the likelihood of a full-blown recession, as well as earnings reports for the rest of 2022. In China, the central bank has cut rates again as the country’s per...
Aug 23, 2022•34 min
In the latest chapter of meme stock mania, AMC’s shares are tanking , and the company is getting creative to raise capital . As Americans await a potential decision on the Biden administration’s student loan forgiveness , CNBC’s Sharon Epperson reports that many fear the policy could worsen inflation. Cryptocurrencies may be as volatile as ever, but investor and bull Anthony Scaramucci considers Larry Fink’s and BlackRock’s change of heart on the asset to be a good sign for the entire industry. ...
Aug 22, 2022•31 min
The NYC MTA is low on ridership and on revenue, but Chair and CEO Janno Lieber says he has a plan to boost both and restore trust in the safety of public transit. The Big Ten has sealed its 7 year, $7 billion TV deal, marking the biggest annual deal for any college sports league. Sports business executive George Pyne unpacks the giant payout and what it means for the league’s student players. Plus, the Bed Bath & Beyond carnage keeps coming for the company and its traders, and Starbucks has ...
Aug 19, 2022•30 min
After internally reviewing its own response to the covid-19 pandemic, the CDC has concluded, there’s room for the agency to improve. Director Rochelle Walensky has announced her plan to restructure the CDC , and in so doing to improve future responses and to rebuild public trust in the organization. Dr. Scott Gottlieb examines the road ahead for the CDC and Washington’s role in improving it. While Wall Street and Twitter still reel from the latest Elon Musk antics, biographer and Tulane professo...
Aug 18, 2022•32 min
Bed Bath & Beyond, AMC, and Gamestop are all swept up in a revival of meme stock trading ; tastytrade founder and Co-CEO Tom Sosnoff discusses the recent meme stock surges. After President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law, Director of the White House National Economic Council Brian Deese shares the intended impact of the legislation for Americans’ health care costs and greener living. Also in politics, Liz Cheney is considering her next move in her mission to support disillu...
Aug 17, 2022•32 min
: Walmart reported better than expected earnings this quarter, but its profits are still under pressure. CNBC’s Courtney Reagan and Refinitiv’s Jharonne Martis examine the report and what it reveals about inflation and today’s consumers. The U.S. education system is short hundreds of thousands of teachers and support staff, according to estimates. President of Purdue University Mitch Daniels discusses why, after teaching through a global pandemic, many educators have left the profession, and few...
Aug 16, 2022•33 min
