Family Matters; Musk on Trial; College Crisis

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Business News, News, Investing, Business

4.2 • 543 Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

President Trump isn’t in a rush to make a trade deal with China. Joe, Becky, and Tom Farley discuss what a trade war into 2020 might mean for the markets. Elon Musk’s tweets have thrown him into the headlines—again. Tesla’s CEO is on trial for allegedly defaming a British cave explorer; CNBC’s Jane Wells and Yale’s Jeffrey Sonnenfeld explain the strange story. Colleges could go out of business; CNBC’s Scott Cohn, Brookings’ Andre Perry, and Cato's Neal McCluskey discuss the high costs of higher education. Plus, some personal family details about Tom and Joe and a lesson in linguistics.

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0:00.0	Bring in Show Music, please.
0:03.0	This is Squawk Pod, the Daily Podcast brought to you by the team behind Squawk Box.
0:08.0	NYC, this is NBC Control 2.
0:10.0	See, NBC's essential morning show.
0:12.0	Every day get the best stories, debate, and analysis. see pot. President Trump says a trade deal with China, it could wait.
0:24.3	The China trade deal is dependent on one thing.
0:27.4	Do I want to pick it?
0:29.0	An Elon Musk tweet lands the Tesla CEO in court.
0:32.2	Yale's Jeff Sonnfeld weighs in.
0:34.0	We have boards that seem unable to direct genius founders.
0:38.0	How does a board reign in these Twitter tantrums?
0:42.0	And the crisis hitting campus inside Higher Ed's high stakes to staying in business.
0:47.0	Students with a lot of money available to them often tend to demand from a school some expensive things.
0:55.4	That's why we see water parks and some colleges.
0:58.4	Those stories and more, Cyber Monday, Latin lessons and the tariff on Champagne.
1:03.9	I'm C and Vee producer Katie Kramer, it's Tuesday, December 3rd, 2019.
1:07.9	Squawk Pod begins right now.
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1:12.9	Why would be it?
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1:17.6	We are live from the NASDAQ market site in Times Square.
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