This is Squawk Pod. I'm CNPC producer Cameron Koste. Today on our

podcast, the most important tax rate for investors shooting up to the highest

in American history and in the world

CNBC's wealth reporter Robert Frank on the proposed capital gains hike

that spooked the markets. We will get a rush to the exits for stocks, for assets, for small businesses, for anyone

that has an asset that is appreciated and valued.

And input on the hike's impact from Republican and Democrat lawmakers,

Representatives Nicole Malayatakis and Josh Godheimer.

I am concerned also about the tax increases,

which certainly stying the investment at a time where we need private sector investment.

We all agree that double taxation is wrong, that our states have gotten whacked.

Is the Oscar Buzz quieter than usual?

Media journalists Ed Lee from the New York Times and Sarah Fisher for Maxios.

The Oscar Telecast, you're right, it's not just a pandemic thing.

For years the audience has been declining, I think it peaked in the late 90s at like 60 million viewers. Die Hard, even the Linwen

Well Miranda film that's supposed to come out got pushed. When you push the theaters out of the

ward season, what you're left with is a bunch of dramas. Those stories and what do you're left with is a bunch of dramas?

Those stories end what do you want to ask Warren Buffett?

Inflation may be, or ESG investing?

Or how about crypto?

Warren called it Rap Poison Square.

Now that was a few years ago.

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