ron baron. first, we want to take a quick check on the markets futures at this hour, dow looking to open 25 points up nasdaq looking to open 37 points down s&p 500 looking like it is going to open down as well, off by 2.5 points right now, the 10-year at 1.775. >> so close to 1776. >> a huge line up. in the next hour, tesla chair will join us live. congressman kevin brady will be with us at 8:00. >> for on hour on set. >> we have united ceo who will join us at 8:30 a.m. before all of that, we have two hours. >> we have a big show today. a lot of special guests. ron baron. i think this is the 11th year "squawk box" has joined you live you bring together the investors and ceos and talk to top managers, you also entertain them big guest you'vecli included inh past have included rod stewart, and more the star front and center has to be the companies you are vested in let's take about your theme. why what's next? >> we are looking at faster growth in the future >> for the economy, stock market, what

there's a season i think ron baron is saying, listen, just go on auto.so know that that's been warren buffett's method i just don't want people to get hurt >> 50 years, robot armies are going to roam the streets. >> sky net you coming with the sky net thing again? >> elon musk will be in everybody's brain. i mean, come on. >> that's a doomsday scenario. >> i guess companies will still need to raise capital for their robot masters. >> although, brexit might still be uncertain at that point we might not know. >> that will be forever. >> i'll give you a positive. >> some things are not -- brexit is forever >> look, ceo of american electric power, the nation's largest power distributor, 40% of our power is going to come from renewables in a couple years. there you go how about that >> let's get the opening bell here on the s&p 500 at the cnbc realtime exchange, celebrating an ipo down here today, it is a china based education technology company. at the nasdaq, it's proginy. we'll talk to them on "squawk alley." >> he's in the crosshairs of washington >> if y

becky is live from the baron investment conference with the legendary ron baron.t to take a quick check on the markets futures at this hour, dow looking to open 25 points up nasdaq looking to open 37 points down s&p 500 looking like it is going to open down as well, off by 2.5 points right now, the 10-year at 1.775. >> so close to 1776. >> a huge line up. in the next hour, tesla chair will join us

gabrie gabriel, that was ron baron on friday he doesn't think these proposals would ever make it throughe gotten since the book came out >> people have said the same thing of the federal income tax before 1913, that it would never work, it would never be a reality, that people would evade it, it would be bad for the economy and for jobs and so on and, you know, now we know that it's a big success it's working very well so the wealth tax could work well wealth concentration has increased a lot in the u.s the top .1% wealthiest americans own about 20% of u.s. wealth there's a ton of wealth at the top and their tax rate currently is not high. 400 wealthiest americans pay 23% of their income in taxes and so the most direct way to make them pay more is through a wealth tax. >> take it away. >> can i ask you a question? you've been advising elizabeth warren on these issues to some degree does she want to take money away from the wealthiest because she wants to redistribute or does she want to take wealth away from the wealthiest because she sees this as a larger inequality what's the -- if you

we should tell everybody, ron baron is going to join us from the annual baron investment conference overt lincoln center one of his special guests will be tesla chairman robyn denholm. >> she was already on the tesla board. experience in both toyota and some technology sector >> big telecom person. >> he said publicly, he wasn't going to listen to her >> we'll talk about all those things with her. >> good. dow out with earnings. down 91 cents a share compared to 73 cents. revenue was just above wall street expectations as well says here although profit did fall 32% from a year earlier on weaker demand higher income costs and global weakness joining squawk on the street at 9:00 a.m. eastern. coming up, earnings check. we'll get reports from 3k and more i'll show you numbers behind the biggest pre-market earner. speaking of movers, here are the biggest losers in t biggest winners and losers in the dow right now. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> some stocks to watch. other earnings reported. ford shares are under pressure following disappointing earnings weaker than expected sales in china. ford also e