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CNBC Marathon explores the different struggles the aircraft company Boeing, has faced these past couple of years.

Boeing’s 747 is one the most recognizable planes to take to the skies with its iconic hump, four engines, extensive landing gear and sheer size. Since its first commercial flight in 1970, Boeing’s 747 jumbo jet has flown more than 3.5 billion passengers. But over the last few decades, airlines have looked for more ways to cut costs and to make airplanes more efficient. Two engine jets can now fly near the same capacity and further than older four engine planes like Boeing’s 747 and the Airbus A380. CNBC visited Boeing's Everett, Washington factory to see the last 747 roll off the production line. It will go to Atlas Air for cargo deliveries.

Five years ago, 346 people were killed in two plane crashes that happened five months apart, in Indonesia and Ethiopia. Both were Boeing 737 Max 8 planes. Then, this past January, Boeing came inches from yet another catastrophe as a door plug blew off an Alaska Airlines 737 Max 9 plane at 16,000 feet shortly after taking off from Portland, Oregon. Preliminary reports said the door panel that flew off the Max 9 appeared to be missing four key bolts.

Boeing has struggled to get back on track after the fatal 737 Max 8 crashes in 2018 and 2019. The company announced it's in talks to buy back fuselage maker Spirit AeroSystems. A company Boeing spun off in 2005. Both companies have struggled with quality issues in recent years. Spirit AeroSystems, however, also supplies parts to Boeings main rival Airbus and other plane manufacturers making the deal a little complex.

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
01:10 What Happened To The Boeing 747? (Published January 2023)
23:23 Why The Boeing 737 Max Has Been Such A Mess (Published April 2024)
38:25 Can Boeing’s Purchase Of Spirit AeroSystems Help Solve Its Problems? (Published May 2024)

Produced by: Erin Black
Animation: Jason Reginato, Midnight Snacks, Christina Locopo
Supervising Producer: Jeniece Pettitt
Editorial Support: Leslie Josephs
Additional Reporting: Phil LeBeau
Additional Camera: Andrew Evers, Katie Tarasov
Additional Footage: Getty Images, Airbus, American Airlines, Boeing, Spirit AeroSystems, United Airlines

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Can Boeing Overcome Their Recent Challenges? | CNBC Marathon

U.S. companies are frontloading cargo bound for the U.S. due to the uncertainty regarding tariffs.

While Trump has suspended the tariffs on Canada and Mexico for at least one month while those countries negotiate with the United States on trade and border security, new 10% tariffs on Chinese imports have taken effect. Find more on how companies are embracing for tariffs: https://youtu.be/h5P8WHBrQvo

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac provide liquidity and support for the U.S. mortgage market. For the past 16 years, the two enterprises have been subject to close supervision by the federal government. The arrangement, also known as ‘conservatorship,’ was established in 2008 after the collapse of the housing market. Conservatorship has, at times, restricted Fannie and Freddie’s ability to raise capital. With President Trump’s second term underway, some prominent voices are calling for Fannie and Freddie’s return to private markets. The move could potentially impact the rates offered for new mortgages in the U.S..

Chapters:
0:00 Intro
01:26 Chapter 1: Fannie & Freddie
05:22 Chapter 2: Conservatorship
07:57 Chapter 3: What happens next?
09:03 Chapter 4: Implications for the housing market

Correspondent: Diana Olick
Producer by: Carlos Waters
Edited by: Andrea Miller
Camera: Van Appelgate
Senior Producer: Shawn Baldwin
Graphics: Jason Reginato
Additional Footage: Getty Images, Yahoo! Finance
Additional Sources: Cato Institute, Congressional Budget Office, Federal Housing Finance Agency, Mortgage News Daily, S&P Global, Realtor.com

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Will Privatizing Fannie Mae And Freddie Mac Mean Higher Mortgage Rates?

Experts say there is a critical shortage of aviation maintenance technicians (AMTs) that can’t keep up with growing demand. Boeing estimates that 716,000 technicians are needed worldwide to maintain the global air fleet over the next 20 years.

Companies like GE Aerospace and American Airlines are working to train the next generation of AMTs.

CNBC visited GE Aerospace in Lafayette, Indiana, American Airlines maintenance base in Tulsa, Oklahoma and Aviation High School in Queens, NY to explore the challenges facing the aviation industry and how it plans to keep up with the demand for mechanics and technicians to build and maintain aircraft.

Chapters:
2:15 Shortage
3:56 Certification
6:30 Attracting talent
9:04 Retention and supply
10:44 Tomorrow's workforce

Produced, shot and edited by Erin Black
Animations by Jason Reginato, Andrea Schmitz
Senior Director of Video Jeniece Pettitt
Additional Camera Natalie Rice
Editorial Support Leslie Josephs, Katie Tarasov

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Why A Shortage Of Airplane Mechanics Is Aviation's Next Challenge

Between 2014 and 2024, private equity firms invested more than $90 billion into U.S. restaurants and bars. Red Lobster and TGI Fridays were two of the most notable. The two casual dining giants were acquired through a transaction type called a leveraged buyout that ultimately contributed to their bankruptcies in 2024. Watch the video above to learn more about the most commonly used strategies by private equity firms, including sale-leasebacks and roll-ups, to try to turn a company around.

Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
1:16 Chapter 1. What is private equity?
4:33 Chapter 2. When private equity takes over
8:59 Chapter 3. What’s next on the menu

Produced by: Natalie Rice
Edited by: Darren Geeter
Animation: Jason Reginato
Senior Managing Producer: Tala Hadavi
Additional Sources: PitchBook
Additional footage: Getty Images, Red Lobster, P.F. Chang’s

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How Private Equity Is Behind Red Lobster And TGI Fridays' Bankruptcies

Foot traffic to suburban shopping malls has returned to pre-pandemic levels and high-end malls are thriving. Yelp found that 17 out of the top 25 brands driving consumers to malls are restaurants, and the dining options for visitors have moved well beyond the traditional food court that would include chains like McDonald's, Chipotle and Panda Express. CNBC visited the American Dream Mall in New Jersey to see how dining has evolved at the mall: https://youtu.be/-lBjt8W0GQk

Americans drive much more than in any other country – twice as much as the average German, for example. And the actual experience of driving isn’t quite as romantic as the image. Drivers are often stuck in traffic. Cars pump out pollution. Less walking means less exercise. Cars also can kill people. Some skeptics say, indeed–cars are awesome. But they got a lot of help from favorable policies and strong lobbies. CNBC spoke with some researchers and looked at numbers to get the full picture of why Americans became so dependent on cars.

Chapters:
0:00 - 01:37 Introduction
01:41 Chapter 1: A nation hooked on cars
03:47 Chapter 2: How we got here
08:00 Chapter 3: Cars are subsidized
11:32 Chapter 4: Solutions

Producer: Robert Ferris
Editor: Andrea Miller
Animation: Jason Reginato
Senior Managing Producer: Tala Hadavi
Additional footage: Getty Images

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How America Got Hooked On Cars

CNBC Marathon goes to explore the biggest tech companies that are designing chips on U.S. soil.
Thirty years ago, Taiwan immigrant Jensen Huang founded Nvidia with the dream of revolutionizing PCs and gaming with 3D graphics. In 1999, after laying off the majority of workers and nearly going bankrupt, the company succeeded when it launched what it claims as the world’s first Graphics Processing Unit (GPU). Then Jensen bet the company on something entirely different: AI. Now, that bet is paying off in a big way as Nvidia’s A100 chips quickly become the coveted training engines for ChatGPT and other generative AI. But as the chip shortage eases, other chip giants like Intel are struggling. And with all it’s chips made by TSMC in Taiwan, Nvidia remains vulnerable to mounting U.S.-China trade tensions. We went to Nvidia’s Silicon Valley, California, headquarters to talk with Huang and get a behind-the scenes-look at the chips powering gaming and the AI boom.

Samsung may be known for android phones, TVs and appliances, but it’s also been the undisputed leader in memory for more than three decades. Now, as memory prices continue to fall, it’s doubling down on manufacturing chips for outside customers, with a $17 billion new chip fab in Texas and new $228 billion cluster in South Korea. CNBC got a rare look inside Samsung’s chip business to bring you the untold story of how it became the world’s second biggest advanced chipmaker, just as it makes plans to catch the industry leader TSMC.

Despite its firm footing as the world’s biggest cloud provider, Amazon Web Services got a slow start to the generative AI race. AWS released its large language model, Titan, months after Microsoft’s reported $13 billion investment in ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and Google’s release of Bard. But AWS is also designing its own custom AI microchips, shown to CNBC in an exclusive tour of its Austin chip lab. Now analysts say AWS may gain a long term advantage in AI by offering an alternative to Nvidia GPUs.

Apple has designed its own custom chips for iPhones since 2010, kicking off a trend followed by other non-chip giants like Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Tesla. In November, CNBC became the first journalists to film inside an Apple chip lab, where it tests its latest M3 chips that replaced Intel processors in all new Macs. We also got a rare chance to talk with Apple’s head of silicon, Johny Srouji, and Apple's senior vice president of hardware engineering, John Ternus, about geopolitical risks in Taiwan, slowdowns and what’s next in AI.

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
01:22 How Nvidia Grew From Gaming To A.I. Giant, Now Powering ChatGPT (Published March 2023)
19:02 The Untold Story Of Samsung’s Growing Chip Business (Published November 2023)
36:40 How Amazon Is Making Custom Chips To Catch Up In Generative A.I. Race (Published August 2023)
52:19 Inside An Apple Lab That Makes Custom Chips For iPhone And Mac (Published December 2023)

Produced by: Katie Tarasov
Edited by: Sydney Boyo, Evan Lee Miller, Amy Marino
Supervising Producer: Jeniece Pettitt
Additional Reporting: Jordan Novet
Animation: Andrea Schmitz, Christina Locopo, Jason Reginato, Midnight Snacks
Camera: Andrew Evers, Katie Brigham Joseph Huerta
Additional Footage: Getty Images , Apple, TSMC, AMD, Google, Intel, Nvidia, OpenAI, Qualcomm, Samsung, Amazon, Airbus, Autobus, Microsoft, ASML

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The Race For Chip Dominance | CNBC Marathon

Uniqlo parent company, Fast Retailing, is the second largest retailer in the world only after Zara owner, Inditex. With a market capitalization of over $100 billion, the brand has been able to grow thanks to what experts say is a minimal, functional design at reasonable prices, mainly known for its durable fleeces and cotton shirts. It currently holds 69 stores in the U.S. with the goal of growing to 200 by 2027. Fast Retailing operating profits grew 7.4% and Uniqlo's North America revenue rose more than 17% in its latest quarter reported January 9, 2025. Watch the video above to learn how Uniqlo and Fast Retailing made CEO Tadashi Yanai the richest man in Japan.

Chapters:
0:00 - Introduction
1:20 - Origins
4:34 - In-store experience
7:35 - Growth risks

Produced and Edited by: Christian Nunley
Animation: Mallory Brangan
Senior Managing Producer: Tala Hadavi
Additional Footage: Getty Images

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How Uniqlo Won Over North America