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Andrew Ross Sorkin

Co-Anchor, CNBC · 4 appearances on the record.

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Andrew Ross Sorkin is a financial journalist who anchors CNBC’s morning show Squawk Box and founded The New York Times’ financial franchise DealBook. He is the author of Too Big to Fail and 1929, as well as a co-creator of the television drama series Billions.

16statements → 10claims → 6claims resolved → 83%fully supported → 3.69/5average certainty → 2.12/5average debate potential → ≈4.0/5argument clarity, estimated → 24said about them ↓

5 supported 1 partly supported 0 contradicted 4 not checkable as stated how the 10 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

1 prediction · 9 assertions · 3 opinions · 2 insights · 1 what if · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 10 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 6 are resolved, and 4 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Andrew argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Sorkin: Roosevelt won 1932 election over Prohibition, not the economy
“When you go back and look at why Roosevelt won, it wasn't actually on the economy. If you go and look at the polls, it was over prohibition, crazily enough”
Andrew Ross Sorkin Oct 16, 2025 ▶ 37:04 1929 vs 2025: Andrew Ross Sorkin on Crashes, Bubbles & Lessons Learned

How they sound: speaking style how? →

288 words/min while actually speaking · 6.9 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Andrew Ross Sorkin: no usable question→answer exchanges on raw tape (a fair score needs 8+). We do not score a sample that small. Roundtable and news formats yield far fewer direct exchanges than interviews. Their coarse estimate from 7 exchanges on the produced feed is ≈4.0/5, shown at half point precision because the sample is small and produced tape scores higher.

Measured by listening to 8,278 words across 2 episodes, but every recording we have of Andrew Ross Sorkin is the aired feed, and an editor cleaned that audio before release. Some of the hesitation was cut before we ever heard it, so read these as floors: the true rates are at least this high. These are measurements of speaking style, not scores. How it's measured →

Everything Andrew Ross Sorkin said on All-In that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Opinion
Sorkin: Modern financial leverage differs fundamentally from 1929 levels
“I don't think it is One to one. I think there's a lot of leverage in the system today, but it's a different kind of leverage.”
Andrew Ross Sorkin Oct 16, 2025 ▶ 12:57 1929 vs 2025: Andrew Ross Sorkin on Crashes, Bubbles & Lessons Learned
Assertion Partly supported
Sorkin: Glass-Steagall was driven by Chase lobbying against JP Morgan
“It almost has nothing to do. I don't want to say it has nothing to do with breaking the banks apart for like political reasons, but it actually has to do with business reasons, meaning there was like some major bank money and lobbying going on behind the scene…”
Andrew Ross Sorkin Oct 16, 2025 ▶ 21:49 1929 vs 2025: Andrew Ross Sorkin on Crashes, Bubbles & Lessons Learned
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sorkin: Current leverage levels remain below 1929 margin debt and 2008 subprime crisis
“Now, I don't think that any of that is as leveraged as what we were talking about, this like 10 to one situation in 1929, or maybe, or even like the subprime situation in 2008.”
Andrew Ross Sorkin Oct 16, 2025 ▶ 24:13 1929 vs 2025: Andrew Ross Sorkin on Crashes, Bubbles & Lessons Learned
Assertion Supported
Sorkin: Roosevelt won 1932 election over Prohibition, not the economy
“When you go back and look at why Roosevelt won, it wasn't actually on the economy. If you go and look at the polls, it was over prohibition, crazily enough”
Andrew Ross Sorkin Oct 16, 2025 ▶ 37:04 1929 vs 2025: Andrew Ross Sorkin on Crashes, Bubbles & Lessons Learned
Insight
Sorkin: Post-WWII US union success depended on global industrial monopoly
“The reason why unions even worked, I would argue, for, in large part, was because there was this period of time where we were the only players in town, so we could charge monopoly rents for a lot of things, and people could buy a house with a white fence and h…”
Andrew Ross Sorkin Oct 16, 2025 ▶ 39:03 1929 vs 2025: Andrew Ross Sorkin on Crashes, Bubbles & Lessons Learned
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Sorkin: US tariffs will yield higher costs and inferior cars in 10 years
“Having said that, if we do this, which we are, We will probably spend more to buy less technologically capable cars 10 years from now than the next time we all, you know, if you go on vacation to Europe or Asia and get in the back of one of these other cars.”
Andrew Ross Sorkin Oct 16, 2025 ▶ 44:46 1929 vs 2025: Andrew Ross Sorkin on Crashes, Bubbles & Lessons Learned
Opinion
Sorkin: RCA was the Nvidia of the 1920s technological boom
“So RCA was like the Nvidia of its time.”
Andrew Ross Sorkin Oct 16, 2025 ▶ 5:56 1929 vs 2025: Andrew Ross Sorkin on Crashes, Bubbles & Lessons Learned
Insight
Andrew Ross Sorkin: Innovation cannot occur without speculation
“There is no innovation without some speculation.”
Andrew Ross Sorkin Oct 16, 2025 ▶ 15:12 1929 vs 2025: Andrew Ross Sorkin on Crashes, Bubbles & Lessons Learned
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sorkin: Peripheral AI energy and real estate projects carry hidden leverage
“And for the most part, the big corporations are spending real cash. So it's not, that's not leveraged, but you look at a lot of the Real estate plays, the energy plays that sort of on the periphery of this, there's a lot of leverage there.”
Andrew Ross Sorkin Oct 16, 2025 ▶ 23:56 1929 vs 2025: Andrew Ross Sorkin on Crashes, Bubbles & Lessons Learned
What-if
Sorkin regrets not buying Bitcoin when Palihapitiya recommended it at $100
“I remember those moments fondly and sadly because I should have listened.”
Andrew Ross Sorkin Oct 16, 2025 ▶ 27:17 1929 vs 2025: Andrew Ross Sorkin on Crashes, Bubbles & Lessons Learned
Opinion
Sorkin: Jamie Dimon and Larry Fink are legacy finance's most powerful players
“Probably Jamie Dimon and Larry Fink are probably the most sort of powerful players in the sort of traditional legacy piece”
Andrew Ross Sorkin Oct 16, 2025 ▶ 29:37 1929 vs 2025: Andrew Ross Sorkin on Crashes, Bubbles & Lessons Learned
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sorkin: Hollywood is buying less content and prefers pre-packaged projects
“Right now, just the way the business is, you know, the Hollywood's buying a lot less stuff, and I think is more interested in sort of the former version where you show up with the whole thing sort of pre-packaged, pre-planned, but, you know, it almost changes,…”
Andrew Ross Sorkin Oct 16, 2025 ▶ 48:44 1929 vs 2025: Andrew Ross Sorkin on Crashes, Bubbles & Lessons Learned
Assertion Supported
Sorkin: General Motors introduced consumer car financing in 1919
“In 1919, General Motors says, you know what, we're gonna start lending people money so that you can buy a car.”
Andrew Ross Sorkin Oct 16, 2025 ▶ 4:17 1929 vs 2025: Andrew Ross Sorkin on Crashes, Bubbles & Lessons Learned
Assertion Supported
Sorkin: US stock market rose 48% in 1928
“In 1928, the stock market went up 48%.”
Andrew Ross Sorkin Oct 16, 2025 ▶ 5:30 1929 vs 2025: Andrew Ross Sorkin on Crashes, Bubbles & Lessons Learned
Assertion Supported
Sorkin: JP Morgan chief Thomas Lamont kept transcripts of calls with Hoover and FDR
“Inside the boxes, his secretary is keeping transcripts of his phone calls with Hoover and Roosevelt.”
Andrew Ross Sorkin Oct 16, 2025 ▶ 12:25 1929 vs 2025: Andrew Ross Sorkin on Crashes, Bubbles & Lessons Learned
Assertion Supported
Sorkin: U.S. stock market ended 1929 down only 17%
“People forget at the end of 29, the stock market actually was down only 17% by the end.”
Andrew Ross Sorkin Oct 16, 2025 ▶ 36:17 1929 vs 2025: Andrew Ross Sorkin on Crashes, Bubbles & Lessons Learned

The other half of the tape: Andrew Ross Sorkin's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 23 times in 11 episodes on All-In. 1 statement on the record names them. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most Jason Calacanis 7Chamath Palihapitiya 7David Sacks 5David Friedberg 4

Statements about Andrew Ross Sorkin, by other people (1)

Opinion
Tucker Carlson: Andrew Ross Sorkin proves television media is not a meritocracy
“The fact that Andrew Ross Sorkin has a television job shows this is not a meritocracy.”
Tucker Carlson Dec 1, 2023 ▶ 1:31:04 Tucker Carlson: State of America, leaving Fox News, Media Control, Politics, and more

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2026 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2025 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
2024 8 mentions in 3 episodes 3 per episode
2022 4 mentions in 1 episode
2021 5 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode

Appearances (4)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
1929 vs 2025: Andrew Ross Sorkin on Crashes, Bubbles & Lessons Learned Oct 16, 2025 25m
Trump Rally or Bessent Put? Elon Back at Tesla, Google's Gemini Problem, China's Thorium D Apr 26, 2025 10m
Tucker Carlson: State of America, leaving Fox News, Media Control, Politics, and more Dec 1, 2023 22s
E64: Antitrust standards & enforcement, tech repricing, lab leak obfuscation, E63 reaction Jan 22, 2022 15s
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