Carl Quintanilla
25+ years at @CNBC and @NBCNews / @WSJ alum / board member, NY City Center
- * MERZ: WHOEVER THINKS THAT ANNEXING PARTS OF UKRAINE WOULD SATISFY RUSSIA IS WRONG * MERZ: MURDERS IN MANY EUROPEAN CITIES, CYBER ATTACKS, DESTRUCTION OF SEA CABLES, ARE MOSTLY THE WORK OF RUSSIAN STATE AND ITS HELPERS @reuters.com
- “.. The key argument was that this was beginning to hurt Trump’s supporters — Trump’s people,” one person briefed on the talks said. @washingtonpost.com #TACO 🌮 www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
- CARNEY, on the UK’s offer of a Trump state visit: “.. I think, to be frank, [Canadians] weren't impressed by that gesture .. given the circumstance. It was at a time when we were being quite clear about the issues around sovereignty." @skynewsrss.bsky.social news.sky.com/story/canadi...
- Happy b’day Darius Rucker, who in 1994 had been with Hootie for 8 yrs — when Letterman heard their new song & booked them. “It was the moment our career changed .. On Thurs, we were just another band trying to make it. Saturday morning, everybody was trying to find a Hootie & the Blowfish record.”
- “.. the latest business with foreign ties to seize on Mr. Trump’s crypto venture, which channels profits directly to the Trump family ..” @nytimes.com @ericlipton.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/u...
- Happy 75th b’day, Stevie — who once said he writes the music first and lets the lyrics find their own way. One example: a tune was going to be about religion. "But then, .. we were in the studio, talking about things that happened when we were kids, back in the day. So it turned into 'I Wish.'"
- The groundbreaking “Hill Street Blues” goes off the air this week in 1987. Unlike other cop shows where characters’ private lives were unseen, “we turned that inside out,” said Steven Bochco. “‘Hill Street’ was a show where their personal lives kept bleeding .. into their professional lives.”
- JPMORGAN: The “backpedaling” on China has cut the odds of recession “back to below 50%” — but “we still see the risks skewed to the downside given the damage already done to confidence and the risks that the trade war and other US policies (fiscal, .. regulatory) are not as friendly as hoped for.”
- “.. Then, late Sunday, Mr. Musk’s group deleted those claims for 31 of the contracts from its website, eliminating $122 million of the savings it claimed to have achieved by cutting federal contracts.” @fahrenthold.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/u...
