>> WHY DON'T WE GET OVER TO STEVE LIESMAN. HE'S GOT A VERY SPECIAL GUEST THIS MORNING. A SPECIAL INTERVIEW WITH NEW YORK FED PRESIDENT JOHN WILLIAMS.STEVE. >> ANDREW. THANK YOU.YES, I AM HERE AT THE NEW YORK FED WHERE I'VE BEEN. WE DON'T KNOW HOW MANY YEARS IN A ROW NOW, BUT SEVERAL WITH PRESIDENT JOHN WILLIAMS FOR A TRADITIONAL DECEMBER HOLIDAY INTERVIEW. WELL, WELCOME BACK, STEVE.THANKS. AND JOHN, I WAS JUST REMARKING ABOUT HOW GREAT OUR TEAMS ARE WHO SCHEDULED THIS MONTHS IN ADVANCE, KNEW THERE WOULD BE ...

Tik Tok CEO telling employees that its parent company Bite Dance has reached an agreement to create a new US joint venture that will hold the US version of the app and that will be majority owned by US investors. Kevin Meyer Meyer is the founder and co-found co-CEO of Candle Media. He's also the former CEO of Tik Tok and the former COO of Bite Dance.And CNBC's Beijing bureau chief Ununis Yun is here as well. She joins us here at the NASDAQ this morning as well. So folks, let's run through this.Um, first of ...

>> WHY DON'T WE GET OVER TO STEVE LIESMAN. HE'S GOT A VERY SPECIAL GUEST THIS MORNING. A SPECIAL INTERVIEW WITH NEW YORK FED PRESIDENT JOHN WILLIAMS.STEVE. >> ANDREW. THANK YOU.YES, I AM HERE AT THE NEW YORK FED WHERE I'VE BEEN. WE DON'T KNOW HOW MANY YEARS IN A ROW NOW, BUT SEVERAL WITH PRESIDENT JOHN WILLIAMS FOR A TRADITIONAL DECEMBER HOLIDAY INTERVIEW. WELL, WELCOME BACK, STEVE.THANKS. AND JOHN, I WAS JUST REMARKING ABOUT HOW GREAT OUR TEAMS ARE WHO SCHEDULED THIS MONTHS IN ADVANCE, KNEW THERE WOULD BE ...

>> WELCOME BACK TO SQUAWK BOX. OUR NEXT GUEST IS HERE WITH A HOLIDAY SURVIVAL GUIDE. JOINING US RIGHT NOW IS HARVARD PROFESSOR ARTHUR BROOKS.HE HOSTS OFFICE HOURS THAT PODCAST. IT'S NEW AND IT'S AWESOME. ALSO, OF COURSE, A COLUMNIST WITH THE ATLANTIC.BUT WHAT WE WANT TO TALK ABOUT THIS MORNING, YEAH, IS MONEY AND HAPPINESS. THE VERY IDEA OF CAN YOU BUY HAPPINESS. RIGHT.AND HOW WE SHOULD ALL FEEL RIGHT NOW WHEN EVERYONE TALKS ABOUT AFFORDABILITY AND HOW UNAFFORDABLE THINGS ARE, IS THAT SUPPOSED TO DOES THAT ...

I want to start on how busy 2025 really was looking ahead to 2026. Do you expect the same kind of pace with respect to trade deals, with respect to trade announcements. Well, during 2025, President Trump, the administration has essentially reset the global trading order to move from, you know, total liberal trading to United States without any cost to a new fair and balanced approach.We have we've announced lots of trade deals even now, lots of tariffs. As you know, in the coming year, we expect to finalize ...

2018 2019 in fintech was late spring. You get into 2020 and COVID and that was utter insanity of a of a story. >> Like 25% of all venture dollars in that period went into fintech which is >> Wow. 25%. >> The stat after that is not a good stat which is um starting in like the second half of 2022 like basically 0% of venture dollars went into >> drought maybe. >> Yeah. Yeah. Fintech winter was the second half of 2022. Most of 23 and 24 things started to thaw a little bit and like now we're very much back in s ...

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Most people are taught to avoid volatility. They hide from it. They want something that's safe and stable.That's not how you drive returns. In order to capture returns, you need asymmetry. If you need asymmetry, you need volatility.So, I recently saw CZ, the founder of Binance. He had a great tweet where he said, "If you were ever jealous of people buying crypto on the cheap and being able to hold them through the cycles, think about what they did in moments like this." Obviously, cryptocurrencies have fall ...

So o over a month, Steph, Meta is the only one of the the right in the sweet spot AI stocks that is higher. It's up 3%. Everything else has had decent pullbacks.Coreweave down 7 and a half, Oracle down 10. We we've been saying that this trade is going to be difficult to see stabilization without Oracle and Coreweave stabilizing, right. because they're the ones that are in the eye of the the whole storm.I'm reminded what Apollo's Mark Rowan said in an interview last week about what's happening with some of t ...

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