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Squawk Pod
Squawk Pod is a daily, guided curation of the top moments and takeaways from CNBC’s flagship morning show, “Squawk Box”, anchored by Joe Kernen, Becky Quick and Andrew Ross Sorkin. Each day, the podcast includes news making interviews, perspective and analysis from iconic guest hosts, and slices of debate and discussion—from the heated to the hilarious— all wrapped with exclusive context and color from Senior Producer Katie Kramer.
Episodes
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Fallout for Fox, AI in the Markets, & News at Netflix 04/19/23
Fox Corp. has agreed to pay $787.5 million to Dominion Voting Systems to settle a defamation lawsuit over false claims that Dominion’s machines swayed the…
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Apple’s Bet on India; U.S. Tensions in China & in Congress 04/18/23
Fresh off his own trip to Taiwan and China, New York Times foreign affairs columnist Thomas Friedman discusses the complicated cultural and financial…
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Ryan Reynolds, Nuvei, & Bank Earnings Begin 04/17/23
In his latest business venture, actor, producer, and entrepreneur Ryan Reynolds has invested in fintech company Nuvei. Reynolds and his new partner Nuvei CEO…
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Fed Voting Member Austan Goolsbee & Formula One’s CEO 4/14/23
President of the Chicago Federal Reserve Austan Goolsbee considers which economic data reveals the most about the American economy. Goolsbee discusses the…
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Palantir CEO Alex Karp & Amazon CEO Andy Jassy 4/13/23
Tech entrepreneur Alex Karp discusses how AI like ChatGPT fits into Palantir’s data analytics and machine learning. At the Leadership Summit in Kiawah, the…
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Warren Buffett in Japan, Part 3 4/13/23
Berkshire Hathaway Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett is in Tokyo for the first time in 11 years. This special three-part series delivers Becky Quick’s full…
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Warren Buffett in Japan, Part 2 4/12/23
Berkshire Hathaway Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett is in Tokyo for the first time in 11 years. This special three-part series delivers Becky Quick’s full…
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Warren Buffett in Japan, Part 1 4/12/23
Berkshire Hathaway Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett is in Tokyo for the first time in 11 years. This special three-part series delivers Becky Quick’s full…
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AI Arms Race with Google’s former CEO & Warren Buffett’s Stake in Japan 4/11/23
Eric Schmidt, Google’s former CEO and chairman, discusses the AI arms race in China and in the U.S., as well as the Future of Life Institute’s viral letter on…
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David Rubenstein, Super Mario, & Mifepristone 4/10/23
Carlyle Group co-founder and co-chairman David Rubenstein considers how the banking crisis of today compares to that of 2008. In a wide-ranging conversation…
Squawk PodBonus Episode: The March Jobs Report 4/7/23
The U.S. economy added 236,000 jobs in March, and the unemployment rate ticked down to 3.5%. Joe Kernen, Becky Quick, and Andrew Ross Sorkin break down the…
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Weekend Movies, Tax-Fueled Movers, & “Master Plan 3” 4/6/23
President Macron is meeting President Xi, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is meeting President Tsai, and CNBC’s Eunice Yoon has the pulse of Beijing through it…
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Robots Are Coming! with Reid Hoffman 04/05/23
For better or worse, the age of AI has arrived! LinkedIn co-founder, ‘Masters of Scale’ podcaster, and OpenAI investor Reid Hoffman co-founded AI company…
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“The Crisis is Not Yet Over.” Economic Warnings, Disney’s Drama, & Google Goes Lean 04/04/23
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon delivers a direct warning in his annual letter: “The current crisis is not yet over.” Joe Kernen, Becky Quick, and Andrew Ross…
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A Match in the Ring & a Debt Limit Showdown 4/3/23
UFC parent Endeavor is taking a majority stake in World Wrestling Entertainment, spinning off UFC and WWE into a new company. CNBC’s Alex Sherman, who broke…
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Trump's Hush Money Indictment & Fed Inflation Gauge Cools 3/31/23
Former President Donald Trump has been indicted by a grand jury for hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels just before the 2016 election. It marks the…
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Pushing Pause on AI & Bank Failures; Who’s to Blame? 03/30/23
House lawmakers tore into top U.S. bank regulators at congressional hearings this week about how Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank collapsed practically…
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Failure to Fill: America’s Drug Shortage 03/29/23
Antibiotics and generics are in short supply, and it’s affecting every demographic in the U.S. CNBC’s Senior Science & Health reporter Meg Tirrell does a deep…
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Oscar Health Handoff, Trouble Brewing for Binance, & Disney’s Cost Cuts 03/28/23
The CFTC has filed a complaint against Binance, alleging that the crypto exchange violated federal law. Speaker of the House Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) has…
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Matches Made in Crisis, Tim Cook in Beijing, & Losses at the Saudi National Bank 03/27/23
First Citizens will buy Silicon Valley Bank’s deposits and loans, prompting a stock rally in regional banks. Lawmakers are gearing up to question Federal…
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TikTok’s Grilling & Europe’s Banking Contagion 03/24/23
Lawmakers grilled TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew on data, the platform’s relationship with Chinese owner Bytedance, and content moderation. Stanford University…
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Hike #9, Winning AI, & the SEC’s Celebrity Targets 03/23/23
The Federal Reserve announced a rate hike of 25 basis points, its ninth consecutive hike in the last year. Chair Jerome Powell softened his tone on the central…
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Lloyd Blankfein: Market Stability & Fed-spectations 03/22/23
In an extended interview, former Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein discusses the fine line for Federal Reserve Chairman Jay Powell, who prepares to speak to…
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Time for a Time Out? Former Fed Governor Kevin Warsh 03/21/23
JPMorgan is advising First Republic on strategic alternatives, after JPM and 10 other banks announced a $30B deposit into the embattled bank. Treasury…
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An Emergency Swiss Rescue, A Liquidity Crunch, & ‘We Love NYC’ 03/20/23
The Swiss government has helped broker a deal for UBS to acquire its embattled rival Credit Suisse in an “emergency rescue” to curb global contagion in the…
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The Week That Was: A Bank Crisis, IRS Records, & The Next Fed Decision 03/17/23
Joe Kernen and Andrew Ross Sorkin digest the chaotic week that was: banks in crisis, markets in tumult, and the Fed under pressure. Lazard’s Peter Orszag…
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A Swiss Lifeline, the Rate Hike Risk, & Threatening TikTok 03/16/23
Credit Suisse gets a lifeline! CNBC’s Geoff Cutmore reports on the Swiss Central Bank’s backstop for banking contagion, and CNBC’s Steve Liesman explores how…
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Banking Contagion: U.S., Europe, & Larry Fink’s Warning 03/15/23
After the collapse of Silicon Valley and Signature banks and the subsequent regional bank crisis in the US, European banks are now rattling the global markets…
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Delta’s Demand, Inflation’s Rise, & the Repercussions of a Rescue 03/14/23
The Federal Reserve’s next rate hike is around the corner–or is it? The latest inflation report, last month’s Consumer Price Index, came in hot but not worse…
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Near Miss: A Bank Collapse and a Crisis Averted 03/13/23
Did we dodge the bullet? Federal agencies on Sunday approved plans to safeguard depositors affected by the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank on Friday, and the…
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Jobs, Gun Sales and the Silicon Valley Bank Failure 03/10/23
Job creation decelerated in February but was still stronger than expected despite the Federal Reserve’s efforts to slow the economy and bring down inflation…
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Salesforce Debuts Einstein GPT & JP Morgan Sues Jes Staley over Jeffrey Epstein Ties 03/09/23
Salesforce is the latest tech powerhouse to join the ChatGPT mania, now offering Einstein GPT. The offering draws on OpenAI’s technology that’s taken the tech…
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The Economic Balance: Powell's Warnings, Biden's Tax Plan, and Buffett's Bet on Oil 03/08/23
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell testified to the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee and warned that interest rates may rise higher than…
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Banning TikTok? And How to Survive a Pandemic 03/07/23
The move to ban foreign technology – including TikTok – gains traction in Congress. Sen. Mark Warner (D) Virginia describes his new bill, to take a more…
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Speaker Kevin McCarthy and this Week’s Great Expectations 03/06/23
President Biden’s fiscal year 2024 budget proposal will be released later this week, intensifying the debt limit fight between the President and Capitol Hill…
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The War on ESG and Apple’s Artificial Intelligence 03/03/23
The Senate voted to overturn a Labor Department rule that permits fiduciary retirement fund managers to consider ESG factors in their investment decisions. The…
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Tesla’s Master Plan, A CLEAR Travel Picture, An ESG Vote 03/02/23
Tesla investors were unimpressed by the company’s presentation at this week’s investor day. CNBC’s Phil Lebeau recaps the stock reaction and investor…
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Competing with China, Capping Insulin Costs, & CEOs Speaking to Shareholders 03/01/23
In the first meeting of a new House committee on U.S. competition with China, lawmakers displayed a rare show of bipartisanship. CNBC’s Eamon Javers shares the…
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Target CEO Brian Cornell & Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon 02/28/23
Two important interviews: First, Target CEO Brian Cornell discusses his company’s fourth quarter results and what they indicate about consumers, the global…
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A Hard Landing, A Missing Yacht, & Warren Buffett’s Latest Letter 02/27/23
After digesting a hotter-than-expected personal consumption expenditures price index, the markets closed out their worst week so far in 2023. The PCE price…
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Wall Street’s Talent Pipeline; The Ozy Implosion 02/24/23
In a special Squawk Pod “Reporter’s Notebook,” CNBC’s Frank Holland discusses the AltFinance Fellowship, a talent acquisition program that bridges HBCU…
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The Crux of Tech Freedoms & Slips in the Supply Chain 02/23/23
In two big tech cases this week, the Supreme Court considers reinterpretations of Section 230, the heart of a “free” internet. Tech investor and Plexo Capital…
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Mike Pence, Former Vice President: 2024, Social Security, & China 2/22/23
In an extended interview, former United States Vice President Mike Pence discusses the 2024 Presidential race, U.S. competition with China, and the current…
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The Great Russian Business Retreat, Costs of Hybrid Work, & Family Flight Plans 2/21/23
Nearly a year since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, President Biden is in Kyiv and Poland. Yale School of Management’s Senior Associate Dean for Leadership…
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Lessons for Norfolk Southern Rail; Searching for Bao Fan; Betting on Gambling 2/17/23
Two weeks after a train derailment in Ohio resulted in a hazardous chemical spill, the responsible railway Norfolk Southern, the EPA, and the Biden…
Squawk PodSquawk Pod Reports: Berkshire Hathaway's Charlie Munger 2/16/23
Charlie Munger, a shareholder and board member for The Daily Journal, spoke at the newspaper’s virtual annual meeting on Wednesday. The meeting featured a Q&A…
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Hot Takes from Charlie Munger, Hot PPI Data from Labor, & a Hot Debt Warning from the CBO 2/16/23
Berkshire Hathaway Vice Chairman Charlie Munger, a shareholder and board member of the Daily Journal Corporation, spoke at this year’s virtual Daily Journal…
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Pharrell’s New Shoes, Biden’s New Economic Lead, & EV’s New Ports 2/15/23
After his dramatic takeover, Elon Musk aims to name a successor at Twitter before the end of 2023. Musk has also announced that thousands of Tesla’s chargers…
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Cracking Open Coke & Spilling Media’s Meanest Secrets 02/14/23
The New York Times columnist Jim Stewart is out with a new book chronicling the manipulations and secret machinations of Sumner Redstone’s final years and the…
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The Super Bowl and UFO’s: How Was Your Weekend? 02/13/23
The Kansas City Chiefs defeated the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl LVII! Not everyone was watching for the big game, though. Most of this year’s…
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Gensler’s Crypto Warning and Hulu, Possibly for Sale 02/10/23
Disney CEO Bob Iger’s apparent openness to selling Hulu marks a stark reversal in strategy for the company. Iger said Thursday that “everything is on the…
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Woz on AI, Disney’s “Significant Transformation” & How Billionaires Save on Their Tax 02/09/23
Disney says it will slash 7,000 jobs from its workforce and plans to cut $5.5 billion in costs, including $3 billion in content savings. CEO Bob Iger says the…
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Biden’s State of the Union, Uber’s CEO, & The Bing Bot 02/07/23
President Biden delivered his State of the Union address to a lively congressional audience. Joe Kernen, Becky Quick, and Andrew Ross Sorkin break down the…
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Speaker Kevin McCarthy, Activision’s Bobby Kotick, & AI Wars 02/07/23
In a this super-sized episode, Speaker of the House Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) sits with Joe Kernen at the Capitol for an extended interview ahead of President…
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Twitter’s Trend, Rating the Rate Hikes, & A Busted Balloon 02/06/23
A suspected Chinese spy balloon was shot down by the U.S. military over the weekend, as tension between both countries escalates. Member of the Council on…
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A Payroll Pop, Starbucks Sales, & Big Oil Buybacks 2/3/23
In a surprisingly strong report, the Labor Department revealed the U.S. economy added 517,000 jobs in January 2023, and an unemployment rate drop to 3.4%, the…
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Ray Dalio: Believing the Fed, the Brink of War, & Cash! No Longer Trash 2/2/23
The Federal Reserve has raised interest rates 25 basis points in its eighth hike since March 2022. Bridgewater founder and billionaire hedge funder Ray Dalio…
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Cathie Wood’s Best Month Ever: 2023 Bets on Tech, Crypto, & AI 2/1/23
Ark Invest CEO and CIO Cathie Wood shares her big investing ideas for 2023 after her flagship fund reported its best month ever. Ark Innovation ETF notched a…
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ExxonMobil’s Record Profit, EV Price Wars, & Thwarting the ‘Texas Two-Step’ 01/31/23
ExxonMobil reported a record breaking $55.7B profit for 2022. CEO Darren Woods discusses the results and global oil policy, and warns that gas prices will rise…
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Market Macro, An Auto Alliance Reset, & Asia’s Tech Moves 01/30/23
Ahead of this week’s Fed meeting, jobs data, and tech earnings results, head of US Equity and Quantitative Strategy at BofA Securities Savita Subramanian zooms…