Matthew Quayle
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Squawk Box conversations for the next 20 years
Twenty years of shows—the history, the hosts, the guest hosts, the guests, the mergers, the breaking news, the banter, the fun and the road trips. Twenty years of my life.
'Squawk' hosts pick top live albums (and so can you!)
Fresh off his latest feat walking the 400-foot Orlando Eye, tightrope walker Nik Wallenda tells CNBC why he does what he does.
Producer's Note: On Squawk's move to NYC
I have the greatest job. For 20 years now I have been coming into work every morning at CNBC and making sure Squawk Box makes it on TV. It's a really good gig. We started it in a humble studio in an office building in Fort Lee, New Jersey back in 1995. The original team was Joe Kernen, David Faber, Maria Bartiromo, and the late Mark Haines. We later moved to a new global state-of-the-art, all-digital facility here in Englewood Cliffs NJ.
Producer's Note: On ‘Squawk’s’ move to NYC
show chapters I have the greatest job. For 20 years now I have been coming into work every morning at CNBC and making sure"Squawk Box" makes it on TV. It's a really good gig. We started it in a humble studio in an office building in Fort Lee, New Jersey, back in 1995. The original team was Joe Kernen, David Faber, Maria Bartiromo, and the late Mark Haines. We later moved to a new global state-of-the-art, all-digital facility here in Englewood Cliffs NJ.
Squawking One Direction, Danica, and Super Mario
The Ebola outbreak in Africa has everybody concerned about the possibility of the virus spreading. With this terrible humanitarian crisis unfolding, we called Richard Preston, author of the "The Hot Zone," which chronicled the discovery and deadly nature of the virus. If you haven't read the book, read it. This interview will give you an idea of how concerning the recent outbreak really is, and whether an outbreak is possible in the U.S.
Squawking 'Sharknado', the munchies & NYC soccer
@Joe kernens_hair (After a long hiatus, the hair is back! And the Twittersphere is better for it!) @powerrosssorkin (Because he lists www.kansasband.com as his official webpage ... any fan of the show who is also a fan of our favorite band @kansasband is a fan of ours.) @morningmoneyben (Ben White's "Morning Money" newsletter at Politico is on our daily must read list and that's not just because he's now on the payroll.)
Squawking Murdoch media moves & Delivering Alpha
This year's CNBC and Institutional Investor "Delivering Alpha" conference was another home run (not to mention it came on Wednesday, the day Andrew broke that huge Time Warner/21st Century Fox story).
Squawking GoPro gold, CEO Snoozegate & GOPapalooza
GoPro CEO Nick Woodman shares the incredible story of how a fledgling idea that allowed the world to "turn the camera on itself" grew into a $3 billion dollar company. It's one of the coolest AND hottest IPOs in a long time. GoPro was founded by CEO Nick Woodman 12 years ago, and now it's a $3 billion HD-video, action-sports camera maker with plans to become much, much more.
Squawking Rick Perry in the hotseat on gay remarks
Larry Fink built BlackRock from a boutique investment firm in 1988 with eight employees into one of the biggest and most influential on Wall Street. They manage more money than the GDPs of entire European countries. We're talking "TRILLIONS" here. "North of $4 trillion," Fink told us Thursday. When he says, don't get out of stocks yet we tend to listen to him. He also said the Fed should speed up its bond-buying exit. As for jobs in America, Fink sees a shortage of educated workers in the labor force.
No marshmallow cars & the next big thing: Blog
My question of the week. Just because you wrote some code that allows you to find stuff on the Internet, why does that make you think you can fix something like the American Automobile? We love our cars. We love driving them. We love collecting them. And we don't want self-driving cars that look like marshmallows with no steering wheels (my opinion here). So Google, I know you're bored with the Internet. That's fine. But then how about you go fix the education system, or health care or the tax code.
Squawking David 'Fricking' Tepper & Joe's 'murse'
Billionaire hedge fund manager David Tepper told investors this week they need to keep some cash on the sidelines. But we're not sure what sparked more debate, the Appaloosa Management boss' cautious comments or whether he said "frickin,'" "fricking," or "friggin'" ... while warning investors about the markets. Our Kate Kelly helped us sort it all out.
Squawking $143B selfie and NY to Tokyo in 1 hour
Every year, the Monday after the Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholders meeting—also known as "Woodstock for Capitalists"—Warren Buffett gets up early and spends three hours with Squawk co-host Becky Quick. We love that he does this for us and simply can't thank him enough for making the effort every year. Now I have to try to make the effort to figure out how to sum up three live hours of the Oracle of Omaha into a few blog links.
Squawking Welch, Buffett, Weill, and 'The Murse'
We spent all week celebrating the release of the CNBC First 25 List—a celebration of the 25 people who shaped the business world for the 25 years that CNBC has now been on the air. For all of us at CNBC and thousands of corporate managers around the world who all have modeled their leadership style and approach around him, former GE boss Jack Welch was a no-brainer. He's No. 12 on the list. We simply can't get enough of him.
Activist investors, big pharma & lil' 'Squawkers' deliver!
This was one of those weeks where you would have no idea what you would have done without Joe (as opposed to other weeks!!!) We woke up Tuesday to discover Novartis was buying GlaxoSmithkline's cancer drug business for $16 billion; selling its vaccine business to GlaxoSmithkline for $7.1 billion; selling its animal health division to Eli Lilly for $5.4 billion; and putting its flu business up for sale. Ugh! drug companies.
Squawking 'Miller' time, eBay's Icahn truce & Zell
We love when Barry Sternlicht comes in to guest host because he always brings up stuff that makes us stop and say, "Hmmm ... we didn't think of that." This week, the chairman and CEO of Starwood Capital reminded us that the bond market is the "purveyor of truth" when it comes to Fed tapering and predicted that the economies of Europe have turned the corner.
Squawking: Buffett, Icahn and disruptors du jour
The Oracle of Omaha (in his own words) It's one of the coolest things we do here on "Squawk Box." Once a year—on the Monday after Warren Buffett releases his famous annual investing letter—he sits down with Becky Quick for three hours and says, "OK, ask me whatever you want!" The Oracle also takes it one step further.
Inside Ukraine's presidential pad and 'Ask Warren'
There are the normal people who make up about 99.9 percent of us. And then there are the Big Thinkers. Thomas Friedman of The New York Times definitely falls into that category. He thinks of things that, no matter how hard I strain every synapse in my brain, there is no way I could ever return serve. (If you want to think "bigger" too, follow him on Twitter at @tomfriedman.)
'Talking Dead' with Michonne; whassup; and blame the NFL
So $16 billion to text for free on the Internet? That's what Facebook is spending to buy WhatsApp in a huge bet to capture and keep young people on a Facebook-owned platform. We eventually did plenty of analysis. But of course the first thing we thought of when the deal was announced was not the $16 billion price tag, or the future of Facebook or of mobile. For us, the only thing we could think of was ... Whassup?—you know, that catchy slacker phrase from those old Budweiser commercials.
Squawking Sochi curling, vodka and Fashion Week
We sent two of our best: "Squawk on the Street" anchor and Squawk brother Carl Quintanilla (Twitter @carlquintanilla) along with international superstar Michelle Caruso-Cabrera (Twitter @MCaruso_Cabrera) to cover the Olympics. Each story they found is worth another look, so check out the links below. Starting, of course, with Carl's trip to vodka heaven and playing an Olympic-style drinking game.
Squawking AOL and Obamacare; why Twitter tanked
GM Chief Financial Officer Chuck Stevens had a tough time Thursday explaining the automaker's big earnings miss. At first he called the results "very solid." But when pressed, he cited higher tax rates and restructuring costs contributed to profits. AOL Chairman and CEO Tim Armstrong had plenty to crow about after the company reported better-than expected earnings and revenues Thursday.
Squawking Henny Youngman, supermodels and EMs
He's a nominee for our CNBC First 25 look at the top business leaders, icons and rebels. Vanguard founder Jack Bogle changed the world of investing by basically creating the index fund. He said he created a revolution. Bogle also said that investors shouldn't worry too much about recent chaos in the emerging markets.
Squawking Davos with Hollywood and Wall Street stars
Which means before we get to all the serious stuff, we have a link to the video of Joe touring the local "High Altitude" brewery, and our crew couldn't travel to Switzerland without giving curling a try. But we actually did some work, too. It's hard to sum up all we learned and who we met. It's a true example of when it rains, itspours. But the interviews are worth a closer look, so I'll link them all below and you can pick and choose. (OR JUST WATCH THEM ALL!)
Squawking mixed metaphors, the Pats, Fink on bonds
He's one of the most powerful men in finance. He built BlackRock from the ground up, and it's now the 800-pound gorilla on Wall Street. Larry Fink spent Thursday morning with us, after his firm gave another rock-solid earnings report—beating estimates on earnings and revenues and increasing its dividend. What was his No. 1 message to us? The long-discussed "great rotation" from bonds to stocks is more likely to be a "great rotation" within the bond market itself.
Joe, Becky, Andrew Conquer the Morning vignettes
Peter Orszag used to run the budget at the White House. Now he's the global banking vice chairman at Citigroup, and he's paid to think big. Like Obamacare big, and Grand Bargain big. Meanwhile, Glenn Hubbard ran the White House Council of Economic Advisers before he became dean of the Columbia Business School. He's also paid to think big on the economy.
Merry Taper and a Profitable New Year
OK, half the time we don't know what Steve Liesman is talking about. But we love him and God knows we certainly need him because he's the only one who can translate all that Federal Reserve interest rate, taper, econo-babble for us. And this time he called it. Give the man a cigar! Check out his call on Dec. 10 right here on the show about whether the Fed may finally start tapering its massive economic stimulus program.
Joe, Becky and Andrew 'Dilbert-ized' by comic creator
We here at "Squawk Box" would never make fun of CNBC management. But in the world of "Dilbert," anybody is fair game. So we were understandably nervous when we knew Dilbert's mastermind, Scott Adams, was coming to the set this week. Turns out, he was just here to sell his book "How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life." But the real cool part is he came prepared with custom "Dilbert-ized" characters of hosts Joe Kernen, Becky Quick and Andrew Ross Sorkin.
M. Night Shyamalan's 'Sixth Sense' on education
We spent all week on "Squawk Box" launching a new segment to the program called: The Higher Learning Project—featuring the new wave of disruptors poised to rethink everything about how we teach, learn, and think. If you're currently saving for your son or daughter's college education (or maybe thinking about going back to school yourself) or you're concerned about what your kids are being taught in high school, I strongly suggest you spend some time on the interviews below.
Which bands make your Top 10? Squawk fans respond
It's so bad, I don't want to talk about it. But we had a variety of guests on this week sounding various alarm bells. So I'll pass on their thoughts and then you can decide for yourself just how much of a mess this whole thing has become. Senator Lamar Alexander told us it's so bad that it's almost impossible to fix. Former Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson says Obamacare may need its own version of a taxpayer bailout.
Joe, Becky, and Andrew squawk their Top 10 bands
Top 10 bands and artists of all time Tom Lee of JPMorgan guest-hosted Tuesday after being out all night after an Eagles concert. This led to an all-show conversation about which bands are the best of all time.
Squawking Sky high flats, #Twitter IPO, taxing pot
What's left to say about Twitter? We talked about it all week. We all watched it price. We talked to CEO Dick Costolo before and after. We watched live as the stock opened on the NYSE. We watched the tick-by-tick chart. We had every possible analyst, investor and person who's ever tweeted anything on the air this week. We covered it from every angle we could think of and blogged it minute-by-minute.
BLOG: The Squawking Dead, Apple a day, Team Danica
OK, we had a lot of fun on Halloween this year and almost all of it's worth a second look (or a first look if you missed it)! So I'll begin, at the beginning, with our "Squawking Dead" custom show open as seen on our Facebook page (big shout-out to the CNBC graphics department who rocked this animation for us). It was just so cool and made Joe Kernen almost as happy as when Daryl (actor Norman Reedus) came on the set a few weeks ago.
Squawking Kid Rock-Madonna, Apple-Icahn, Greenspeak
Kid Rock: No city with more style than Detroit OK, he referred to himself as Bob in the interview we did with him this past week, but everybody else knows him as Kid Rock, and the Detroit-loving musician wasn't shy in his criticism of another Motor City native, Madonna. "Madonna ain't done nothin' for Detroit," Kid claimed, but then showed a bit of remorse.
Squawking 'Win US Back,' Spanx, hedge fund titans
Win U.S. Back—our new call to arms For the past few week, corporate America and the financial markets have been almost solely focused on the situation in Washington. CEOs and investors have been hanging on every word coming out of the capital. Many have said the dysfunction has paralyzed the business of business. As our viewers know, CNBC has been leading the charge to "Rise Above" the partisan politics and do what's best for the nation.
Squawking with 'Walking Dead' Daryl (sans crossbow)
Jack Welch is our favorite guest of ALL-TIME. Nobody tells it to us like Jack, and he's been coming on this show for as long as it has been in existence. (BTW, we're in year 18!) He told it to us "Straight from the Gut" back then, and he's still teaching us his "Winning" ways to this day. (Jack, do I get extra points for creative writing links?) So you want the unedited, hit-you-over-the-head answer to what he thinks about the government shutdown and how to fix it?
Squawking Miller Time, TARP love, and Tesla fire
At a time when Democrats and Republicans can't be in the same room together, it might be prudent to look back to five years ago and reflect with someone who knew how to get the job done when the country needed it most. TARP may have saved America from financial ruin in 2008. It was passed after then-Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson literally got on his knees and pleaded with then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. He did it because he was putting the country, not himself, first.
Talking Squawk looks at iPhone sales, BlackBerry woes, doomsday homes
Buying a car can be a very different experience for women than for men. TrueCar claims it can level the playing field. True or just sexist? Check out our segment with Jane Wells. (And notice 5:54 into the video how Becky throws her husband under the minivan on national television, and then backs-up to make sure she got him. I sure do feel sorry for that guy.) Washington is a big problem?
Squawking with Wall St.'s big brains about Fed
We all know the news by now. The Federal Reserve decided this week not to take its foot off the bond-buying accelerator, as most on Wall Street thought it would. Here are a few paraphrased sentiments expressed on "Squawk Box" after the Fed's decision Wednesday: The Fed misled the markets; the Fed's turning investors into QE addicts; the Fed's artificially propping up stocks; the Fed's paying for the party to continue with your children's college fund. We're not taking sides.
Squawking Twitter IPO, Hank Paulson, & BBQ squirrel
There's probably no one better to reflect on the 2008 financial crisis than Hank Paulson. He was Treasury secretary during the crisis and helped engineer the then-$700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP)—the bailout credited with preventing the collapse of the financial system. On "Squawk Box" Friday, he described the crisis as a 100-year storm, and that no one involved in it had ever seen anything like it.
Best in Show! Squawking jobs, Fed and hot wheels
It was a literal flood of economic numbers this week, ending with Friday's employment report. The government said the U.S. economy added another 162,000 nonfarm jobs in July—a number that missed expectations of 183,000. The nation's unemployment rate slipped to 7.4 percent, a shade below the predicted 7.5 percent.
Talking Squawk on Carlos Danger and Earningspalooza
You can imagine Joe's commentary this week on the latest sexting revelations in the Anthony Weiner story. Let's just say our audio guru kept the "ding" sound effect at the ready. But it was CNBC's own John Harwood (our super-serious chief Washington honcho of all people!) who discovered the Slate tool that gives you your own stage name. So in case you are wondering, here's now it went down.
Mr. T-like pain for Detroit, China, and old tech
I guess the financial demise of Detroit should also come as no shock. They have been working on it for the last 60 years. The numbers are scary. Only a third of the ambulances work. The homicide rate is at a 40-year high. Some 78,000 structures have been abandoned. You will read 100 horror stories about Detroit in the next few days. So let's offer an alternative—to celebrate the city for its enduring contribution to music. It is after all, Motown.
Squawking About the Fed...and Investing in Scotch
Everyone on Wall Street (and even Main Street) seemed to have an opinion on when the Federal Reserve will begin to scale back its $85-billion-a-month bond-buying program, and what the impact will be on the markets and the greater economy. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke finally started indulging us on Wednesday, offering the first hints that the "great tapering" might begin later this year. The stock market surely didn't appreciate the indulgence, while bond market rates rose.
Squawking From Sin City to the City of Brotherly Love
The View From the Green We took the show on the road Friday and hit links at the US Open at the Merion Golf Club outside Philadelphia. Heralding from the local top-tier business school, Jeremy Siegel, professor of finance at Wharton, is looking the Dow to finish the year between 16,000 and 17,000. However, right now he said that next week's Fed meeting "is really going to be key." Siegel was dumbfounded by how so many in the market are acting like higher rates will happen in the near term.
What Jobs Data, Greenspan Signal on Fed Tapering
When is good, really good? Or bad, really bad? it seems like a simple enough question but when it comes to dissecting the monthly unemployment report, sometimes "good news" about job growth can often be "bad" for stocks while a "bad" report on jobs can be good news for your 401(k). The formula is complicated, of course, and has many variables, but the "investing for idiots" guide would break it down something like this: Bad can mean good and good can mean bad.
Finally, Clarity From the Fed! Or Maybe Not ...
Just to Be Clear! Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke went to Capitol Hill this week and talked about the economy and the central bank's $85 billion a month bond-buying program (CNBC Explains: Quantitative Easing). The Fed also released the minutes of its last meeting—just hours after his testimony Wednesday. So the message should be crystal clear, right?
Big Hair, Big Markets, Big Scandals: Talking Squawk
Like 'My Cousin Vinny'—Overwhelming Evidence for Stocks On Sept 24, 2010, closely followed hedge fund manger David Tepper came on "Squawk" and said the Fed's asset purchase program virtually guarantees strength in stocks. It sparked what was dubbed the "Tepper Rally," which has seen the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 Index both up roughly 45 percent since then. This week, he came back with a new call on the market—which sent the Dow up triple digits on Tuesday.
The 'Gatsby' Rally and Poopgate: Talking Squawk
The 'Gatsby' Rally and Poopgate: Talking Squawk Published: Friday, 10 May 2013 | 8:40 AM ET By: Matthew Quayle Senior Executive Producer of "Squawk Box" and "Squawk on the Street" Warren Buffett and Bill Gates together; Blackstone boss Steve Schwarzman on set; a bird pooping on Becky's head; and Dow 15,000! It's "Talking Squawk"—blogging tidbits, insights and some sarcasm on the WEEK THAT WAS, and the WEEK TO COME from the notepad of the senior executive producer of "Squawk Box." Source:...
Buffett Live, Apple iBonds, Facebook Stock, April Jobs
Tech Block: iBonds Question: What's the No. 1 rule of any business news editor these days? Answer: Figure out how to get an Apple story into your product everyday. So … Apple issued "iBonds" this week. It's probably going to be the largest nonbank bond sale in history. (There, I worked it in—happy!?) Tech Block: Facebook Stock It appears Facebook may have figured something out.
To Bloviate, Rise of the Machines, Little Squawkers
Little Squawkers Thursday was bring-your-child-to-work day—our excuse to brag about how great and smart and beautiful all our kids are and to show them off on TV. (ENOUGH ALREADY!) Rise of the Machines! Okay, Okay. So Caterpillar missed earnings expectations and guided lower (details, details).
At a Loss ... 'Call Me, Faber'... Rat-Sized Snails Attack!
With Respect ... This blog is meant to be a funny and sarcastic look ahead and back at business news through the unique "Squawk Box" lens. But at times this week, there was no way I could view anything from that point of view. From the horrific, cowardly acts in Boston to the tragic explosion in West, Texas, I simply didn't know what would feel appropriate. I asked my wife, who has to balance emotions like this on-air every day.
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