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Squawk Pod

Fallout from the Facebook Papers & Elon Musk, the World’s Richest Man

Squawk Pod

CNBC

Business News, Investing, Business, News

4494 Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Shares of Facebook are on the rise despite a slew of negative headlines shrouding the social media company. CNBC’s Julia Boorstin reports on the company’s latest quarterly earnings and discusses Mark Zuckerberg’s response to the leaked “Facebook Papers.” Henry Blodget, Insider Inc. co-founder, CEO and editorial director, weighs in on Facebook’s reputation and its potential to overcome the drama. As lawmakers inch closer to finalizing their social spending package, Senate Democrats are eyeing a tax on billionaires to help fund the plan. CNBC’s Robert Frank discusses how billionaires are reacting to the Democrats’ plan to target their unrealized capital gains; economics professor and former Bernie Sanders advisor Stephanie Kelton joins Loren Ponds, tax policy co-lead at Miller and Chevalier, to break down the battle against the billionaires’ billions. Plus, Elon Musk’s net worth is soaring as Tesla hits a trillion dollar market cap, and Cathie Wood weighs in on the inflation debate on Twitter. In this episode: Julia Boorstin, @JBoorstin Henry Blodget, @hblodget Stephanie Kelton, @StephanieKelton Loren Ponds, @millerchevalier Robert Frank, @robtfrank Becky Quick, @BeckyQuick Joe Kernen, @JoeSquawk Andrew Ross Sorkin, @andrewrsorkin

Transcript

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0:00.0

Bring in show music please.

0:04.0

This is Squawk Pod. I'm C. NBC producer Katie Kramer.

0:08.0

Today on our podcast.

0:09.0

Fall out from the Facebook Papers,

0:11.0

How much did Zuckerberg know and did he care?

0:14.6

Insiders Henry Blodgett.

0:16.2

I think that we are in this collective moment blaming Facebook for all of our ills

0:21.8

of society.

0:23.6

How best to handle the billionaires?

0:25.6

Lawmakers inch closer to a wealth tax,

0:28.4

but we're not there yet.

0:29.4

Stony Brook Economics Professor and former Bernie Sanders

0:32.4

advisor, Stephanie Kelton. The lowest hanging. economics professor and former Bernie Sanders advisor Stephanie

0:33.4

Kelton. The lowest hanging pay-for fruit is enforcement. We shouldn't have tax

0:39.0

cheats. We shouldn't have very wealthy people hiding and failing to disclose income they ought to be paying

0:44.5

tax on. Those stories plus speaking of wealth Elon Musk's net worth

0:49.7

sores with Tesla's trillion dollar market cap.

0:53.0

The target seemed way far off,

0:55.0

and then we watched it just sort of happen,

0:57.0

and we watched the demand and the success of the company sort of match it.

1:01.0

It's Tuesday, October 26, 2021.

1:04.0

Squawk Pod begins right now.

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