Tax Free Tips, Beetlejuice, & AI, an Independent Agent 09/09/24

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🗓️ 9 September 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump both agree on tax free tips for service workers. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) shares his take on tax reform, including the tip economy. Bestselling author of “Sapiens” Yuval Noah Harari is out with a new book; Harari explains how we should be thinking about–and controlling–AI in “Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI.” Plus, the star studded cast of “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” jolted the box office opening weekend, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has weighed in on the capital gains tax debate, and the markets are awaiting more economic data this week. Sen. Ted Cruz - 14:25 Yuval Noah Harari - 30:08 In this episode: Sen. Ted Cruz, @tedcruz Yuval Noah Harari, @harari_yuval Becky Quick, @BeckyQuick Joe Kernen, @JoeSquawk Andrew Ross Sorkin, @andrewrsorkin Katie Kramer, @Kramer_Katie

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0:00.0	Bring in show music please.
0:03.0	Hi, I'm C. NBC producer Katie Kramer, today on Squawk Pod.
0:09.0	It's an election year, so what do you think we're squawking about?
0:12.0	Yep, taxes. Yes, again. election year so what do you think we're squawking about? Yep taxes yes again this
0:14.9	time Senator Ted Cruz joins us to discuss his no tax on tips bill.
0:18.9	Nobody will lose their job because of no taxes on tips. No business will go out of business.
0:23.4	But it will create shortages in other jobs where they're not making tips.
0:27.1	And he taught us the brief history of humankind and his bestseller Sapiens.
0:32.0	Historian Yoval, Noah Harare, is back taking on artificial
0:36.0	intelligence.
0:37.0	The key thing to understand about AI, it's not a tool in our hands.
0:42.1	It's an agent. It's an independent agent making decisions, inventing new things.
0:48.0	And the responsibility it places on us humans.
0:51.0	If you think that you just flood the world with information and the truth will
0:55.5	float up, no, it will sink.
0:58.5	Plus, so much news today, the latest on the capital gains discourse,
1:02.8	Beetlejuice, and the US Open Final,
1:05.8	the hottest ticket in New York.
1:07.4	Taylor and Travis Kelsey.
1:09.4	And nobody was watching the match.
1:10.4	They were watching them.
1:12.4	It's Monday, September 9, 2024, Squawk Pod begins right now.
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