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Podcast: Squawk Pod
Episode: Starwood Capital’s Barry Sternlicht: Buybacks, Job Cuts, Rate Hikes, & ‘Rich-cession’ 01/26/23
Description: In an extended interview, Starwood Capital Chairman and CEO Barry Sternlicht offers his outlook on a recession timeline, the Fed’s rate raising playbook, and the U.S. labor market. A real estate and investing mogul, Sternlicht explains what the housing market reveals about America’s economic health. Tesla reported record revenue for the fourth quarter; CNBC’s Phil Lebeau reports the results and shares the highlights from Elon Musk’s comments on the earnings call. Plus, IBM is making job cuts, Chevron is making a big stock buyback, and Donald Trump is back on social media.  In this e...