“There’s probably never been a better period in life to represent the irrational side of human decision-making,” Ariely said during his wide-ranging conversation with CNBC’s Michael Santoli, in reference to the outcome of the U.S. presidential race. One of the explanations presented by the professor is fear, a powerful emotion that’s ingrained in humans’ genetic makeup and can impair rational thinking. “I think people are afraid of what’s happening in the job market, poverty, having difficulty t

Apocalyptic zombie thriller ‘The Walking Dead’ is a modern TV juggernaut. The hit show from AMC has shattered cable ratings, spawned a spin-off — ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ — and even inspired a new format in cable: the live post-show commentary ‘Talking Dead,’ hosted by Chris Hardwick. Executive producer Gale Anne Hurd recently sat down with BINGE to offer some insight into why this serialized horror show draws such mass appeal. She co-created the Terminator franchise, which has generated nearly $

That’s good news for AT&T’s $85 billion bid for Time Warner, despite what Trump said on the campaign trail. And when AT&T wanted to purchase T-Mobile in 2011, Eisenach likewise argued in favor of the merger, pointing out, “The wireless market is extremely competitive.” Mark Jamison, the person Trump named to help with the FCC transition, also argued in favor of the AT&T and T-Mobile merger, although in the end the FCC declined to approve the deal. In October, Trump said that he would block the A

Financial blogger Eddy Elfenbein, whose annual list of 20 stocks has outperformed the S&P 500 in eight of the last nine years, spoke with CNBC PRO about the simple investment principles he uses to select winning stocks. “I think too often investors get too buried in the numbers and P/E ratios. Is this a company that has a consistent track record of growing their earnings, growing their sales? That’s really what you want to get to,” Elfenbein said during the in-depth conversation with CNBC’s Mike

If you still haven’t heard of Twilio, you are forgiven. That said, Twilio’s tools are running behind the scenes when you call your Uber driver or text with your Airbnb host. CEO Jeff Lawson says the easiest way to think of the company is “AWS for telecom.” “What I care about is that the people who need to know about Twilio know about Twilio,” Lawson told Recode’s Ina Fried Tuesday at the Code Enterprise conference. The company’s hope is that when their companies need to do something like calling

At the time, Benioff just said Twitter wasn’t the right fit for Salesforce, flicking at both price and culture as possible hangups. But there was another big issue, Benioff explained: Salesforce’s stockholders didn’t like the idea. “In that case, one of my key stakeholders — my shareholders — made it very clear that they wanted me to exit that dream or vision or idea,” Benioff explained. Salesforce’s stock had dipped more than 8 percent in just a couple of weeks on the idea that Salesforce might

Andrew Peck, a top-rated portfolio manager of the Baron Asset Fund, a mid-cap growth fund that’s generated annualized returns of 12 percent the last five years, sat down with CNBC’s Mike Santoli at the Baron Investment Conference in New York to discuss his approach to long-term investing. The money manager explains that the typical investment in his fund is held for an average of eight years, a key feature that’s allowed him to outperform his peers, in his opinion. During that analysis, he think

While Microsoft and Salesforce have been partners — and at times considered being even more than that — Marc Benioff says the relationship has soured, in part because the new Microsoft is too much like the old one. In particular, Benioff pointed to a meeting that was set up between him and Scott Guthrie, who was then running Microsoft Azure, the company’s cloud-based operating system. More from Recode:Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff: ‘Without Twitter, you wouldn’t have President-elect Trump’Why wait

“Citizens have to be told why their personal information is being collected, where it is going to be stored and who it may be shared with.” Meanwhile Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton has kept much of her big data tools in house, relying on top talent to build out her strategy from within. One of the Clinton campaign’s highest-paid staffers is Elan Kriegal, co-founder of the Democratic data firm BlueLabs. Campaign messaging — whether by the Democrats or Republicans — can be micro-targeted to a

Michael Kass, portfolio manager of the Baron International Growth Fund, a mutual fund that’s generated annualized returns of nearly 12 percent since 2008, sat down with CNBC’s Mike Santoli at the Baron Investment Conference in New York to discuss his investment approach to international markets. The investing landscape in emerging markets has drastically changed in recent years, according to Kass, who believes smaller players could lead a next phase of growth globally. “There are many sort of mi

Steven Rattner, chairman of Willett Advisors, the investment arm for former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s personal and philanthropic assets, sat down with CNBC’s Mike Santoli to discuss the investing landscape after the U.S. presidential election. I think in terms of investing around it, the market has made it clear that it prefers Hillary Clinton to Donald Trump, which is an unusual choice for the market. But as you watch the market go up and down with the polls, I think that’s relatively

Value investor Scott Black, the founder of Delphi Management, a money management firm he started in 1980, says extended valuations could keep the market at bay. The Russell 2000 right now is 27 times earnings, and the Russell 2500 is 25 times earnings. So, again, you have to rely on individual stock selection,” the money manager said. In this wide-ranging conversation, Black, who has over 40 years of financial and investing experience, reveals his top investment ideas, and discusses:Why his form

Tony Crescenzi, a market strategist and portfolio manager at Pimco, a global investment firm with $1.5 trillion in assets under management, believes the era of Fed watching might be over. “The bottom line is that central banks have done about as much as they can to help the economies. It’s really up to the national governments to start to take the hand off and do more, because central banks, in the end, can only print money. In this wide-ranging exclusive conversation for CNBC PRO, Crescenzi als

Jerry Dodson, founder and lead portfolio manager of Parnassus Investments, an independent investment management firm with about $20 billion under management, believes market participants may be running out of investment options due to high valuations. “Right now the cash holdings of the Parnassus Endeavor Fund are 15 percent. But what’s happening is, we are not able to find undervalued companies,” said Dodson. The Parnassus Endeavor Fund is the top-performing large cap growth fund over the last

Peter Boockvar, chief market analyst at The Lindsey Group, said the Federal Reserve and other central banks have reached their “logistical” and “political” limit, which will have broad implications for financial markets for years to come. “I’m very confident in saying that the bond yields in mid-July we may never see again … that this 35-year bond bull market [is over],” he said. Since the yield on the 30-year Treasury reached an all-time low of 2.10 percent in July, the yield has rebounded by

Stephen Suttmeier, a top-ranked technical analyst who’s chief equity technical strategist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, sat down CNBC’s Mike Santoli for an educational interview on how investors can employ technical analysis to their advantage, his favorite sectors for the months ahead and trading based on seasonal patterns. “Bullish seasonality starting in November suggests that we should find some firm footing,” said Suttmeier during the interview. “It wouldn’t surprise me to see the marke

Last spring, Ellen Pao set Silicon Valley ablaze with her gender discrimination lawsuit against her former employer, the venerated venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Pao now has a deal for a book, in which she plans to go into detail about her experiences with the “toxic culture that pervades the tech industry.” Random House imprint Spiegel & Grau has acquired Pao’s memoir, titled “Reset,” and you can read a press release about it below. Kleiner Perkins won last year’s court