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"I think China needs to stop interfering in the internal affairs of the United States because our treatment of Hong Kong is an internal matter," says
@MarcoRubio
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"I don't like how Trump said things, but he wasn't wrong about those critical issues. That's why they're voting for him. People should be more respectful of our fellow citizens," says
@JPMorgan
CEO Jamie Dimon. "I think this negative talk about MAGA will hurt Biden's campaign."
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"Crypto has come from nowhere to be a force in the market ... it's here to stay. Cryptocurrency is not going away," The Carlyle Group's David Rubenstein
#bitcoin
. "The idea that the government is going to stop cryptocurrency from being something investors want is unrealistic."
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Disney Heiress
@abigaildisney
calls for higher taxes on the wealthy: "We do not have a society structured around fairness."
#wealthtaxdebate
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"These are the rules that we have set. When you have given rules, you have to be willing to accept the behaviors that those rules enable," says
@mcuban
on retailers short squeezing. $GME $AMC $AAL $NOK $KOSS. "If you set these rules you have to live with the consequences."
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"
@ElonMusk
is not antisemitic," says
@JGreenblattADL
. "But he's arguably the most influential person on the planet controlling what's essentially our public square. When he repeats conspiracy theories, that feeds the extremists."
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"The cost is huge but Ukraine is paying this cost. So why are people sitting in the comfort of their mansions in Silicon Valley telling Ukraine how to conduct their own affairs," says
@Kasparov63
of
@elonmusk
. "It's moral idiocy and geopolitical blindness."
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Elon Musk moved Neuralink’s incorporation from Delaware to Nevada after a Delaware judge struck down his $56B Tesla pay package. Fmr. SEC Chairman Jay Clayton discusses the potential for other companies to leave the state as well.
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"Don't listen to what they're saying. Just watch what they're doing.
@elonmusk
is still long billions of dollars of
#bitcoin
... and he's not selling because of this energy narrative," says
@APompliano
$TSLA $btc
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"Microaggressions are condemned with extreme moral outrage and yet violence against Jews seems to have found a place of tolerance on campus," says Marc Rowan, chair of
@Wharton
's board of advisors. "It's unfortunately the environment we live in on campus."
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"The economy will have a hard landing. [Powell] is using a steamroller to get the price of milk down two cents," says Barry Sternlicht. "You don't have to see the car hit the wall to know it's going 8,000 miles an hour and it will hit the wall."
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"You said
#crypto
was worthless and rat poison. And then six months later you were a
#Bitcoin
bull. Did that conversion coincide with the $15 million you got from
@FTX_Official
?"
@JoeSquawk
asks
@kevinolearytv
.
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Why is $TSLA
@elonmusk
absent from today's White House event on
#electricvehicles
?
"I'm not sure. What I know is you are seeing so many leaders in industry," says
@SecretaryPete
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Bitcoin tops $8,000
@APompliano
makes the case to
@kevinolearytv
on why he is bullish on Bitcoin
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.
@JoeSquawk
goes full fanboy on
@elonmusk
$TSLA:
"If loving him is wrong, I don't want to be right."
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"I drove the Tesla last night. A big heads up to every short. First time in a Tesla. The car is a spaceship. I wouldn't get in the way of
@elonmusk
... you don't want to get in the way of a spaceship," says
@Scaramucci
on why he is bullish on $TSLA.
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“Bitcoin itself is a hyped-up fraud,” says
@jpmorgan
CEO Jamie Dimon. “Crypto is a decentralized Ponzi scheme…It’s a pet rock.”
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"These coins will easily trade at $500,000 a coin. You don't even have enough bitcoins for every millionaire in our society to own one coin," says
@Scaramucci
#btc
#bitcoin
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"Libra is currency for corporations. Only Bitcoin is currency for the people" -
@JoeSquawk
"I'm feeling like an evangelist, almost!"
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"They tried to ignore it to make it go away. Jamie Dimon will tell you that," says
@GOPLeader
on
#bitcoin
. "This is something that those who regulate, those who are in government that make policy better start understanding what it means for the future."
#btc
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"I feel betrayed," says Ken Langone. "Last Wednesday was a disgrace and should never have happened in this country. If it doesn't break every American's heart, something is wrong."
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"There would not be electric cars were it not for
@elonmusk
... this guy is dedicating himself to making the planet and humanity able to survive," legendary investor Ron Bull on his $TSLA bull case.
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"We can make cross border payments which are slow and expensive today, we make them real time, very efficient, very low cost and that is good for the global economy," says
@Ripple
CEO
@bgarlinghouse
, ranked
#38
@CNBCDisruptors
.
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"The economy hasn't added one single job from the 2019 high-water mark. Not one. All the jobs that we have seen gained is recovered jobs that were lost. We're not yet producing new jobs," says economist
@NelaRichardson
on the labor market.
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"Stock to flow says
#bitcoin
should be priced at $100,000 to $288,000 this year ... Stock to flow also says one
#bitcoin
will be 10,000 ounces of gold in 2029. That's what people mean when they say
#bitcoin
is eating gold,"
@PerianneDC
of
@DigitalChamber
on valuing
#btc
.
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"I don't think it's that crazy to see $100K
#bitcoin
price by the end of 2021," says
@apompliano
on
#btc
.
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Are you saying cash has never been used for illicit purposes,
@joesquawk
asks in response to Mnuchin's concerns about
#btc
"We are going to make sure that bitcoin doesn't become the equivalent to swiss numbered bank accounts" says
@stevenmnuchin1
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BREAKING: Moderna announces Phase 1
#COVID19
results:
After two doses all patients in the trial developed antibodies for the virus
@megtirrell
reports
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"What put my life on a different trajectory was that someone intervened to give me an opportunity to close that opportunity gap," says
@Merck
CEO Ken Frazier. "We're not asking people to give everybody handouts but we need to acknowledge that there are huge opportunity gaps."
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"We have made a lot of money with
@elonmusk
. Right now we have about $4 billion invested in $TSLA," says Ron Baron. "People criticized me for buying it initially. In 8-10 years, we ought to be somewhere around $4.5 trillion."
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"It was delusional. Let's be really clear. Sam was delusional about what happened and his culpability in it," says
@novogratz
. "He needs to be prosecuted. He will spend time in jail. And it wasn't just Sam. You don't pull this off with one person."
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"
#bitcoin
is not for spending," says
@michael_saylor
. "If you want to save your money for the next decade, it's logical to do one transaction. Put all your money in
#btc
and wait for a decade and wait for it to go up."
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"At the end of last year, overall fossil fuels represented 81% of energy consumption. 10 years ago, they were at 82%," says Jeff Currie. "$3.8 trillion of investment in renewables moved fossil fuels from 82% to 81% of the overall energy consumption."
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"I do think that
#bitcoin
is here to stay, and I think a lot of the others are not," says
@SenLummis
. "
#Bitcoin
is the standard. Everything else has to be monitored differently because they are created differently."
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"We are going to see a day when 7-8 billion people have a bar of digital gold on their phone, and they are using it to store their life savings," says
@michael_saylor
#btc
.
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"You got to buy $COIN when that deal comes," says
@JimCramer
. "This is a $2T market maybe going to $3T."
#btc
#bitcoin
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"Are you located in Bali because Indonesia is one of the seven countries that won't extradite you to the United States?"
@BeckyQuick
asks Three Arrows Capital Co-Founder Kyle Davies.
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"We should have no COVID mandates," says
@SenTedCruz
. "We shouldn't step into the regime where the government says show us your papers if you want to do the basic activities of life."
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"We are open source contributor to Cronos. We've never utilized it in a way like FTX did. We have a very simple business, and we are regulated," says
@cryptocom
CEO
@kris
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"It was a stupid idea and we are seeing living proof of that," says Rick Santelli. "You can't print forever and think you can get away with it...they ruined the entire infrastructure of global finance."
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"Nobody is watching the State of the Union."
The feud between
@POTUS
and
@elonmusk
shows no signs of cooling off. $TSLA
@andrewrsorkin
@BeckyQuick
@JoeSquawk
discuss:
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"For me, this is way bigger than a trade deal. This is a communist Chinese government that doesn't comply with anything," says
@SenRickScott
. "I don't believe there's ever going to be a deal."
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“What will control their actions is to fundamentally undermine their economy. The way you do that is for us to produce so much gas and oil that we are able to replace Russia as a force in this world for economic energy production,” says former Senator Judd Gregg on
#Russia
.
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"We are looking closely at this market structure," says
@GaryGensler
on dark pools. "Many of retail public orders are not going to the lit markets but are going to internalizers, going to wholesalers who are taking the retail public trades."
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"No buybacks. Not now, not a year from now, not 20 years from now. Not ever."
@mcuban
on attaching terms to companies that need a government bailout during the
#coronavirus
outbreak.
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"It was 1500-something when Copernicus said we may be revolving around the sun. Things do change," says
@Scaramucci
on
#bitcoin
#btc
. "In a lot of ways if you really study it, it's better than gold. It's easier to store. You can move it around more quickly."
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"How concerned are you that the money given to you by
@SBF_FTX
will be clawed back? Are you prepared to hand it back to creditors if they were to ask?"
@andrewrsorkin
asks
@cz_binance
:
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"Who has the biggest vested interest in things staying the way they are?" asks
@JoeSquawk
on why
@POTUS
may not support bitcoin and Facebook's Libra
#FB
#BTC
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"It was a big big win for Ripple and a big big win for the
#crypto
community," says
@novogratz
after a judge ruled $XRP is not a security. "Let's not let Gary Gensler put lipstick on a pig. They lost and they know it."
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Wake up! We have a huuuge lineup for you.
@JoeSquawk
is live in Washington with
@SecretaryRoss
, Peter Navarro,
@IvankaTrump
,
@WhiteHouseCEA
Chair Kevin Hassett,
@MickMulvaneyOMB
&
@SecretaryAcosta
.
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.
@TIME
is partnering with
@Grayscale
to produce a new education crypto video series and TIME will be paid for the series in
#bitcoin
#btc
while holding the cryptocurrency on its balance sheet:
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"Bullish. Have to be. There's too much money coming in," says
@JimCramer
. "I went back into
#ethereum
because
#bitcoin
held $30K. I like ethereum because people actually use it much more to be able to buy things."
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China "is not going to do anything that is good for us and they are never going to open up their markets," says
@SenRickScott
on
#tradetalks
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NEW: Eastman Kodak wins $765M loan from U.S. govt for drug production: "By the time we're done, they'll make 25% of the country's ingredients for generic pharmaceuticals so we will not be dependent on anybody else for those key generic pharmaceuticals," says DFC CEO
@AdamUSDFC
.
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"I have felt for 30 years ever since the fall of the Berlin Wall that we have made a huge geopolitical error. We absolutely promised the Russians that we would not extend NATO to the east. But we did," says
@Nigel_Farage
.
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“I’ve never known the US that looks around and says, ‘What’s the lowest common denominator? Let’s do that!’” says
@SecretaryPete
. “America should be leading the way and challenging the rest of the world to catch up to us.”
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"5-6 years ago I said
#crypto
was a solution in search of a problem," says Stan Druckenmiller. "The problem has been clearly identified. It is Jerome Powell and the rest of the world's central bankers. There is a lack of trust."
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"I can assure you I will personally not be loaded up on bitcoin" in 10 years, says Treasury Secretary Mnuchin
#bitcoin
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"If our inflows at Grayscale are any indication of the types of investors that are interested in this asset class or the sizes of allocations being made, we're just getting started," says
@Grayscale
's
@Sonnenshein
on the price of
#bitcoin
#btc
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"Unequivocally the virus actually started in Wuhan in September ... We lost 60 days because the Chinese didn't tell us about the virus," says Peter Navarro on US response to the
#covid
pandemic.
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"It's quite offensive to see people are politicizing something like transmission of a disease," says "Black Swan' author
@nntaleb
. "Without masks, we can't pull out of this. Lockdowns are very expensive for society. Masks are not."
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"We need to get very serious about what is our
#bitcoin
strategy as a nation state," says
@apompliano
. "Bitcoin is an American technology from an ethos standpoint. It's about censorship resistance, it's about free speech, it's about self sovereignty and individual rights."
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"Larry Fink better drop dollars then because the dollar is way worse for the environment than
#bitcoin
is," says
@APompliano
on environmental concerns about mining
#btc
.
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"The biggest risk we have is his health. He works incredibly hard," says investor Ron Baron on
@elonmusk
$TSLA, "He sleeps 5 hours a day and works 19 hours a day. Unbelievable what he is doing."
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.
@FrankLuntz
gives a live tour of the Oval Office replica in his California home that cost him almost $1M to build:
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"I like bitcoin ... The real thing I like when it comes to bitcoin is I like blockchain because I like the security. I want the government to start using blockchain," House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy
@GOPLeader
tells
@JoeSquawk
#bitcoin
#btc
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"There's people around the world that are electing to put their wealth into something that is controlled by software and cannot be manipulated by a single country or politician," says
@apompliano
on
#btc
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"If Powell keeps hiking rates, you have the Weimar Republic," says Barry Sternlicht. "He has to keep printing dollars to pay interest on the deficit. That will really slow the economy. He risks the entire financial stability of the [global economic] system."
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“I do think we see $100K in
#btc
before year end. It's just a supply and demand situation,” says
@Scaramucci
on
#bitcoin
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"The Fed will have to monetize it. I believe it will have horrible implications for the dollar ... it's more likely than not within 15 years we lose reserve currency status," says legendary investor Stanley Druckenmiller.
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"If you said 10.5 years ago the President of the United States is going to be tweeting about magic internet money, we would have never envisioned that day," says
@APompliano
on bitcoin
#btc
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"Binance U.S. was set up as a separate company specifically because the U.S. has its own regulatory regime around these kinds of assets," says
@BrianBrooksUS
on his new role as CEO. "We need better clarity in this country to let people productively invest."
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"I think customers have the right to recline." $DAL CEO Ed Bastian shares his seat-reclining philosophy: If there's a tall person behind you "the polite thing is to make certain it was okay. I never recline … and I never say anything if someone reclines into me.”
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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are getting into the business of finance through asset manager
@ethicinvesting
@andrewrsorkin
reports:
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Why would you own
#bitcoin
if you can own the USD? "People are going to opt for something that is not manipulate-able, not seizable," says
@APompliano
#btc
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"These markets are heavily cash dependent. The pandemic therefore accelerated a lot of changes we expected in years and it happened in weeks," says
@uala_arg
founder
@pbarbieri
on his fintech business' growth. "We just reached 250k users in Mexico in only 9 months."
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"Huawei is a branch of the communist part of communist China," says
@SenRickScott
. "We need to go build out our technology without the support of China which will control our information."
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"Tesla's profit at the gross margin level is twice GM and Ford's already. The gross margins are approaching 30%," says
@jonmcneill
on $TSLA. "At that kind of profit margin advantage, Ford and GM have to produce twice the number of cars to achieve the same cash flow."
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"
#bitcoin
is on an inevitable path to have the same market cap then a higher market cap as gold," says
@Novogratz
. "It's just how fast adoption happens. Adoption is happening faster than I had predicted."
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"We determined that bitcoin was not a security, it was much more a payment mechanism and stored value," says SEC Chairman Jay Clayton on
#btc
. "Our current payment mechanisms--have inefficiencies those inefficiencies are the things that are driving the rise of bitcoin."
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"I teach this stuff you never go beyond concentrations of that nature. 50% shame on you! That's nuts!"
@kevinolearytv
tells
@apompliano
#btc
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