A Cubicle Revival & The Newest Apple Treats 9/8/22

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Business News, News, Investing, Business

4.2 • 543 Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

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 workplace productivity. Plus, Bob Iger almost bought Twitter for Disney, and China is extending its Chengdu lockdown. In this episode: Kevin O’Leary, @kevinolearytv Becky Quick @BeckyQuick Joe Kernen, @JoeSquawk Andrew Ross Sorkin, @andrewrsorkin Jon Fortt, @jonfortt Katie Kramer: @Kramer_Katie

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0:00.0	Bring in show music please.
0:03.0	Hi, I'm C NBC producer Katie Kramer today on Squack-Pod.
0:08.0	It's back to school, back to office season.
0:12.0	It's like nothing's changed since 2019. Almost, we talk to Jay Clayton,
0:16.7	former SEC regulator. Are we going to go back to five days a week, 40, 50, 60, 70 hours in the office?
0:24.4	I don't think so.
0:25.3	But are we going to isolate from each other
0:27.5	going forward?
0:28.3	Definitely not.
0:29.3	And for some, absolutely everything is different now. And it should should be entrepreneur Kevin O'Leary.
0:35.0	If you're 24 and you're coming out of MIT and you're an engineer, there is no way in hell
0:39.7	you're working in a cubicle in a high- with crappy poisonous air getting on the subway.
0:45.0	And Apple's newest suite of products, watches, phones, earbuds.
0:50.0	They've kept the inflation-pressed consumer in mind?
0:52.8	Well, maybe.
0:53.7	See NBC's John Ford.
0:54.9	This isn't Tim Cook's first rodeo.
0:56.7	It might look on the surface like Apple didn't raise prices, but they did.
1:01.0	Those stories today, plus oil finally on a decline China on a new lockdown and
1:06.1	Disney almost snapped up Twitter. I bet Elon Musk wishes they would have bought it.
1:11.1	It is Thursday September 8th, 2022. Squack Pod begins right now.
1:16.1	Stand back you by and three, two, one, fuel break. Good morning everybody.
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