
A Sky-Bound Merger, Naked Short Selling, & DEI Due Diligence
Frontier Airlines and Spirit Airlines, the two largest low-cost carriers in the U.S., have agreed to merge in a $6.6 billion deal, CNBC’s Phil LeBeau reports. Frontier will control 51.5% of the new ai...
7 Helmi 202228min

Direct from Pebble Beach: AT&T CEO John Stankey & Discovery CEO David Zaslav
AT&T is spinning off WarnerMedia in a $43 billion merger with Discovery. AT&T CEO John Stankey and Discovery CEO David Zaslav discuss the deal, the rollout of 5G, and the separate futures of telecom a...
4 Helmi 202239min

Meta’s Mega-Miss and The WNBA’s Big Score
Facebook parent Meta delivered disappointing quarterly results, and its stock is taking a hit in response. CEO Mark Zuckerberg cited supply chain and inflation issues hitting advertiser budgets and fa...
3 Helmi 202225min

NFL on the Defense & Spotify, Platform or Publisher?
In the wake of Brian Flores’s lawsuit against the NFL and three of its teams, CNBC’s sports business reporter Jabari Young and Washington University’s director of the sports business program Patrick R...
2 Helmi 202227min

Closing the Racial Wealth Gap, International Spies, & a 6-Letter Word for Game Gone Viral
Black spending power reached a record $1.6 trillion in 2021, up 171% since 2000, but CNBC’s Frank Holland reports that Black Americans have seen their net wealth decline 14%. Bob Johnson, founder and ...
1 Helmi 202225min

Shorting Cathie Wood, High Tech Car Karaoke, & China’s Covid Realities
Tech investing titan and retail trader favorite Cathie Wood is doubling, tripling, quadrupling down on her speculative tech portfolio strategy, despite recent losses. Matthew Tuttle, founder of the “a...
31 Tammi 202229min

Facing Off Inflation; The Next Variant; Buckling Up for Booze
Thanks to the Fed’s emergency stimulus measures, the U.S. economy saw its fastest pace of growth since the 1980s in 2021. To combat the resulting inflation however, the Fed plans to dial those measure...
28 Tammi 202229min

Netflix & Bill (Ackman); Druckenmiller & the Great Fed-spectations; Spotify & Neil Young’s ‘Separate Ways’
Legendary investor Stanley Druckenmiller says he’ll be listening to the bond market as the Federal Reserve backs away from its economic easing policies. CNBC’s Steve Liesman breaks down Fed Chair Jay ...
27 Tammi 202230min






















