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Andrew Ross Sorkin

Co-Anchor, CNBC · 2 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.

17statements → 12claims → 10claims resolved → 80%fully supported → 3.76/5average certainty → 1.65/5average debate potential → 10said about them ↓

8 supported 2 partly supported 0 contradicted 2 not checkable as stated how the 12 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

1 prediction · 11 assertions · 1 opinion · 4 insights · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 12 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 10 are resolved, and 2 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
General Motors Auto Loans Normalized American Consumer Debt In 1919
“It wasn't till 1919 that people were even started to think about taking on debt or anything like that in the country to then go trade. It was really a function of General Motors, by the way. General Motors started loaning money to people to buy cars. That was,…”
Andrew Ross Sorkin Oct 15, 2025 ▶ 26:17 Andrew Ross Sorkin on Why 1929 is Happening Again

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

Assertion Not checkable as stated
Paul Tudor Jones Believes Current Market Resembles October 1999 Dot-Com Bubble
“I was talking to Paul Tudor Jones about a week ago, and he said, I was asking him this question about bubbles. He said, ah, I think we're in maybe like October, 1999. Right now. And I said, oh, that's interesting. Okay. 99. He said, but there's still, if you s…”
Andrew Ross Sorkin Oct 15, 2025 ▶ 13:43 Andrew Ross Sorkin on Why 1929 is Happening Again
Opinion
Andrew Ross Sorkin Compares 1920s Financier John Raskob To Elon Musk
“John Raskob is Elon Musk. I mean, I got to tell you, John Raskob Created credited General Motors became a amazing investor, then takes all of his winnings, decides to get into politics, a little Elon-like decides to back Al Smith against President Hoover. By t…”
Andrew Ross Sorkin Oct 15, 2025 ▶ 6:47 Andrew Ross Sorkin on Why 1929 is Happening Again
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Andrew Ross Sorkin Says Financial Markets Will Not Crash Just Yet
“Yeah it gets, it's a little nerve-wracking, but I don't think we're going off the cliff just yet, I hope.”
Andrew Ross Sorkin Oct 15, 2025 ▶ 3:04 Andrew Ross Sorkin on Why 1929 is Happening Again
Insight
Modern Celebrity CEO Culture Began With Time Magazine Covers In The 1920s
“This was also a period where all of these guys also became celebrities for the first time that happened in the 19 twenties when, you know, time magazine would put these guys on the cover the same way they'd put Babe Ruth and Charles Lindbergh on the cover. So …”
Andrew Ross Sorkin Oct 15, 2025 ▶ 4:28 Andrew Ross Sorkin on Why 1929 is Happening Again
Insight
Speculative Investing Is Necessary To Drive Innovations Like Tesla And SpaceX
“You need some speculation in the system. Like, we always say speculation is a dirty word or a bad word, but, you know, the original investors in SpaceX or in Tesla who probably thought the whole thing was insane were speculating. And you need some of that. You…”
Andrew Ross Sorkin Oct 15, 2025 ▶ 7:59 Andrew Ross Sorkin on Why 1929 is Happening Again
Insight
Excessive Leverage Is The Primary Accelerant For Systemic Financial Collapses
“Leverage is to me like the match that lights the fire every time when you have too much leverage in the system, that it, that is the problem. You can actually have a lot of crazy things happening. But it's the leverage that really exacerbates it and is the acc…”
Andrew Ross Sorkin Oct 15, 2025 ▶ 8:59 Andrew Ross Sorkin on Why 1929 is Happening Again
Assertion Partly supported
The 1930 Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act Caused Global Trade To Drop 60%
“Smoot-Hawley, which was this tariffs, 1930, tariffs happened. Global trade drops by 60% as a result of that.”
Andrew Ross Sorkin Oct 15, 2025 ▶ 10:08 Andrew Ross Sorkin on Why 1929 is Happening Again
Insight
Social Media Makes Retail Buzz Unreliable As A Market Top Signal Today
“Now with social media, and by the way, all the amazing things you guys are doing, I feel like the exposure, I got fifteen-year-old boys who are twins, and they're so exposed to this stuff, just, and I don't think that they're, because of, I don't think that's …”
Andrew Ross Sorkin Oct 15, 2025 ▶ 18:07 Andrew Ross Sorkin on Why 1929 is Happening Again
Assertion Supported
General Motors Auto Loans Normalized American Consumer Debt In 1919
“It wasn't till 1919 that people were even started to think about taking on debt or anything like that in the country to then go trade. It was really a function of General Motors, by the way. General Motors started loaning money to people to buy cars. That was,…”
Andrew Ross Sorkin Oct 15, 2025 ▶ 26:17 Andrew Ross Sorkin on Why 1929 is Happening Again
Assertion Supported
Winston Churchill Dined With Wall Street Bankers During 1929 Market Crash
“Churchill happened to be in New York literally the week that the crash was taking place. He'd actually been down on the stock exchange and it was a big dinner that was taking place the night of the crash with every major banker and frankly, every major charact…”
Andrew Ross Sorkin Oct 15, 2025 ▶ 3:37 Andrew Ross Sorkin on Why 1929 is Happening Again
Assertion Supported
1920s Retail Brokerages Offered 10-to-1 Margin Leverage Without Prospectuses
“These brokerage houses were opening up like Starbucks on the corner of every street, and you could go in, and you put down a dollar. They'd loan you 10 dollars. I mean, like, virtually sight unseen, and there was no prospectuses or anything like, there's no SE…”
Andrew Ross Sorkin Oct 15, 2025 ▶ 5:31 Andrew Ross Sorkin on Why 1929 is Happening Again
Assertion Supported
A 1934 Law Gave US Presidents Authority For Bilateral Trade Deals
“One of the ways they tried to fix what happened after Smoot-Hawley was in 1934. They gave the president of the United States the authority, which is what president Trump is using today to make these sort of bilateral deals.”
Andrew Ross Sorkin Oct 15, 2025 ▶ 15:36 Andrew Ross Sorkin on Why 1929 is Happening Again
Assertion Supported
Brokerage Ticker Tapes Ran Hours Behind During The 1929 Market Crash
“The reason they had all come down there was because when they were up at the brokerages, they couldn't even find out what was happening to their stocks. Cause everything was out of talk about time and technology. They didn't know what You know, the stops on th…”
Andrew Ross Sorkin Oct 15, 2025 ▶ 16:41 Andrew Ross Sorkin on Why 1929 is Happening Again
Assertion Partly supported
Andrew Ross Sorkin Uncovers Previously Unseen 1929 New York Fed Board Minutes
“I got access for the first time to the Federal Reserve Board minutes from 29 in New York. They'd never been made public, so that really created sort of like an undergirding.”
Andrew Ross Sorkin Oct 15, 2025 ▶ 20:25 Andrew Ross Sorkin on Why 1929 is Happening Again
Assertion Supported
Banker Charlie Mitchell Took Personal Loans To Cover 1929 Share Buybacks
“The guy, Charlie Mitchell, that I told you about before, his bank almost goes under because the bank bought, the bank was trying to buy back its own shares during all this, and it bought back too many, and couldn't afford to buy them. And so, he didn't want an…”
Andrew Ross Sorkin Oct 15, 2025 ▶ 22:53 Andrew Ross Sorkin on Why 1929 is Happening Again
Assertion Supported
Trader Jesse Livermore Stationed Private Informants On The 1929 Exchange Floor
“And then Jesse Livermore, this trader I was telling you about, because he didn't Because he was so worried about the issue of having bad information. He paid for his own people to be on the floor. So then they would call him. It was like Citadel placing, you k…”
Andrew Ross Sorkin Oct 15, 2025 ▶ 23:15 Andrew Ross Sorkin on Why 1929 is Happening Again
Assertion Supported
The US Stock Market Gained 90% From Early 1928 To September 1929
“The market between the beginning of 28 and September of 29 was up 90%. So if you had not been in the market during that time, you would have not participated in those ups.”
Andrew Ross Sorkin Oct 15, 2025 ▶ 13:27 Andrew Ross Sorkin on Why 1929 is Happening Again

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 10 times in 8 episodes on TBPN. every mention, with the transcript →

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Appearances (2)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Bending Spoons Buys Airtable, OpenAI Hits Back at Apple, Spider-Man Ads in BMWs | Diet TBP Aug 5, 2026 59s
Andrew Ross Sorkin on Why 1929 is Happening Again Oct 15, 2025 19m

Played on the show (1)

Episodes where a recording of Andrew Ross Sorkin was played rather than Andrew taking part, or where the tape carries an address with nobody putting questions to them. Listed because the words are on the record, kept out of every score on this page because they were not said on this show. We read this off the tape: who was spoken to, who was asked something, who answered whom.

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Neural Computers, GameStop’s $55B eBay Offer | Diet TBPN May 5, 2026 1m clip played
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