can you chat state that jeff bezos speak to us?— jeff bezos speak to us? i honestly do not know- _ jeff bezos speak to us? i honestly do not know. does _ jeff bezos speak to us? i honestly do not know. does macro - jeff bezos speak to us? i honestlyl do not know. does macro translate that for us. i want to know what it means as well. i do not think it means as well. i do not think it means all that much, my guess is he will spend much more time on his commercial space ventures, but that is speculative on my part. that is busily been a huge passion of his. i do not think there is enough time at the washington post frankly. he will not get involved in the journalism, he has made that clear, with his practice and policy since he acquired as. he was already involved in the business side of things, so maybe he will spend a bit more time on it, but my guess is that he would spend, have more time to dedicate to commercial space ventures but i do not think it means very much. whose ideas were set _ not think it means very much. whose ideas were set to _ not think

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you have jeff bezos stepping down in a couple months. you have a new ceo who really, you know, doesn't care. i don't think he cares if it's a $3,000 stock, i think there's some sort of a thing with bezos where he wants to go out with a $3,500 stock. the new guy just wants to show growth and more people buying the stock, and the market capex anding, so i kind of think if i was to bet that this is not the quarter they are going to do the split. they are going to wait until jazzy takes over as ceo, and then do it. it's every logic, it's logical. again, i have no sources inside amazon. when i tweeted this stuff out and wrote about it, i was quoting smart people like scott saying they think this is going to happen and the speculation is obviously been picking up as the quarter is coming down because it makes very much conceptual sense to do it. i just think there's a political thing here. this is me. maybe you guys know better you know bezos better than i do. i kind of think it'll happen when the other guy is in charge, and i think it won't h

what amazon's ceo jeff bezos is telling the white house about its proposed tax hike. >>> two weeks early, the uk begins to roll out its third covid vaccine for the first time today. and a chip surge, private bidding war sending one chinese maker surging in the trade and getting out ahead. what sources close to cnbc said morgan stanley did in the leadup to that archegos capital trading scandal. it's wednesday, april 7th, 2021. and you're watching "worldwide exchange" right here on cnbc ♪ >>> good morning to you. i'm dominic chu in for brian sullivan this morning. here's how stock futures are looking on this wednesday morning. you can see here, we're indicated just slightly here about 32 points higher for the dow jones implied. s&p up higher, 3 points and the nasdaq, 14 stable moves overnight stocks upping off a mostly lower session just yesterday the russell 2000 small cap, snapping a four-day winning streak, the s&p 500 snapping a three-day streak >>> in asia, hong kong finally open for trade after an extended holiday weekend in most asian markets, especially china, hang seng down 1% s

very literally there is a war on wall street between jeff bezos and wall street a war. at some point you have to make your investors happy, that is just the way it is. in one way to think of doing it is an easy way would be that the stocks split, and it makes sense. $3400 a share. that is not in the dow. and remember, you get the stock split, it doesn't diminish the value of the company you just get more shares with a stocking loan. but it's easier device of the action of the valley could actually go up. so an intellectual argument that jeff bezos has some content for this pretty can't say is definitely going to do it and by the way he will still have presence at the company so that is why i am saying reporting spike elation, i am not saying it's happening. far from it. the traders and investors are talking about it like crazy talking about it leading up to the earning so we will hopefully get some daylight from the company on just how serious their considering it whether they will do it or not. neil: interesting got it my friend printed amazon stock continues to advanc

is making so sure $15.00 an hour yet sounds great but when jeff bezos is making 122000 times that it makes unionization more attractive to the average amazon worker ok well i'm going to bring you in on steve on this show your capital when you go ok you're still getting paid better than most then you go what about your working environment and i know there's been a lot of complaints about how these warehouses are what is it what is kind of their approach right now to unions in the modern day i don't know when unions 1st started we obviously were given 10202130 definitely needed advocates where do you feel like the union the place of unions are in america today. well obviously i agree with sarah that there's no comparison as to where the unions are now and where they used to be i think the labor movement is in big big trouble and i think we'll talk about a little later the washington post headlines indicate that and they're proud of it apparently look the workers had a chance to vote and it was 2 to one against unionizing sometimes unionizing isn't all it's cracked up to be you know the

ok so did jeff bezos made $3900000000.00 in one day just last week that is $120000.00 times more than the average amazon warehouse worker makes an entire year now this is basis says he is for raising corporate taxes which the funny part about this is it could actually only be a dollar for him because amazon has paid 0 federal taxes for the last 2 years but does the do what i say not what i do stop there well workers in the amazon facility and bessemer alabama lost the vote to unionize just last week after everything was done by amazon the corporation to defeat that effort to discuss this as well as the contrast to how one of the jets say this is other companies the washington post it covers election transparency we bring in sara parent of antonio and levin peritoneal rafferty and steve malzberg host of meet the press here on araa to america thank you so much for joining me on this thanksgiving travel you know i think it's a conversation that should have been had all weekend because once again i feel like we're seeing an example of this is for me but not for you sarah let's start with

ok so did you know jeff bezos made $3900000000.00 in one day just last week that is $120000.00 times more than the average amazon warehouse worker makes an entire year now this is basis says he is for raising corporate taxes which the funny part about this is it could actually only be a dollar for him because amazon has paid 0 federal taxes for the last 2 years but does the do what i say not what i do stop there well workers in the amazon facility and bessemer alabama lost the vote to unionize just last week after everything was done by amazon the corporation to defeat that effort to discuss this is well as the contrast to how one of a jeff bezos is other companies the washington post covers election transparency we bring in sara parent of antonio and levin tonio rafferty and steve malzberg host of eat the press here at our to america thank you so much for joining me on this. thanks for having you know i think is a conversation that should have been had all weekend because once again i feel like we're seeing an example of this is for me but not for you sarah let's start with you 1st

ok so did you know jeff bezos made $3900000000.00 in one day just last week that is $122000.00 times more than the average amazon warehouse worker makes an entire year now this is says he is for raising corporate taxes which the funny part about this is it could actually only be a dollar for him because amazon has paid 0 federal taxes for the last 2 years but does the do what i say not what i do stop there well workers in the amazon facility and bessemer alabama lost the vote to unionize just last week after everything was done by amazon the corporation to defeat that effort to discuss this is well as the contrast to how one of a jeff bezos is other companies the washington post covers election transparency we bring in sara parent of antonio and levin tonio rafferty and steve malzberg host of eat the press here at our to america thank you so much for joining me on this. thanks for having you know i think is a conversation that should have been had all weekend because once again i feel like we're seeing an example of this is for me but not for you sarah let's start with you 1st of all

. >>> on the cbs "money watch," why amazon's jeff bezos is supporting a tax hike, and where he stands on a new list of the world's richest people. elise preston is in new york with that and more. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, diane. well, stock futures are indicating a mixed open after a relatively mild day on wall street. investors this week have been digesting a wave of better-than-expected economic data. the dow dropped 96 points, pulling slightly back from record levels. the nasdaq lost seven, and the s&p 500 shed three points. >>> amazon founder and ceo jeff bezos says he supports a corporate tax hike to help pay for president biden's massive infrastructure plan. in a blog posted yesterday, bezos says mr. biden's plan will require concessions from all sides. his words come after the president singled out amazon for criticism about how much it pays in federal taxes. >>> mr. biden is proposing increasing the corporate tax rate to 28% from 21% to help pay for his $2 trillion infrastructure proposal. >>> taco bell is going on a hiring spree. the fast food chain is aiming t

laura: this could prove to be a smart strategy for jeff bezos and amazon. the tax would probably hurt them, but on the other side of the break, infrastructure, they stand to benefit from airports, roads, bridges, charging stations around the country, having better broadband access. it helps amazon's business grow and it connects them to consumers better and consumers to the company. this could be a good thing for them and i think they recognize that. by saying we are willing to make concessions and accept a tax increase, gives them a seat at the table in a way that other companies aren't. they could say we are willing to agree with you. i'm sure there are things they don't like, this allows them to go into the white house and have these conversations in a way that other companies have not warmed up to yet. emily: what does the tax plan ultimately mean for big tech companies like amazon? laura: it likely means a pretty significant tax increase. biden has called for an increase to 28%, and limits how many tax breaks and deductions -- and tech companies have u

look, i am a big fan of elon musk, but i acknowledge that jeff bezos is a genius too. i don't particularly like his politics. musk is a libertarian, i rather like that. but putting politics aside, you've got two geniuses here and, look, let bezos go back and make a better product and next time he'll get to play. the space program is going to be the ultimate winner here, so we like this. lots of activity the, lots of bidding, lots of competition. and i don't know if nasa should run it. that's my -- i hate to see the bureaucrats run this, liz. liz: hey, nasa, those guys are geniuses. i'm a big fan of those guys. larry: yeah, i agree. liz: all right. we're seven minutes away from your show, larry. see you at the top of the hour. good stuff. thank you so much. we'll see larry in just a few minutes. all right, gold showing its metal in april, and our countdown closer says, hold on, it's not the only metal that can really add luster to your portfolio. he's got two other metal picks. the metal pack, that's what we're talking about next with the closing bell ringing in six and

this is that like you know jeff bezos got a lot richer because of amazon this last year but i know amazon saved my life. so did it him getting rich necessarily making me worse off whereas even maybe make me better off. well i mean it's the diversions in the amazon warehouses who work for. a lot of pressure very low wages that are certainly not. doing well because or better because business is doing so well i mean we have the i pads on have i think a very well. let me finish and of course here they'd never get. over the last 40 years or so we have certain industries which menaced next to extract the reins from from the rest of the economy to a large profits which are way above what a normal kind of company makes and that is at the at the cost and at the detrimental effect of other parts of society yes i do think so so let me just bringing said i am economic numbers just bringing the people who have a lot of money in this conversation so my scope go out and then i'm going to actually turn the argument from millionaires and billionaires who want to pay a wealth tax they want to pay money nic

jeff bezos has the rocket company blue origin. its protesting nasa's latest contract with elon musk's spacex. nasa is moving forward with the spacex as the sole contractor for the human landing system, citing costs but blue origin filed a protest saying nasa downplayed technical challenges in the spacex proposal. in nasa's own words, it has made a high-risk selection. their decision eliminates opportunities for competition significantly narrows the supply base and not only delays but endangers americans' return to the moon. not uncommon to dispute a government contract. what is uncommon here, guys, elon musk's response. musk on twitter replying to the news mocked blue origin, quote, can't get it up to orbit, lol. and there's more. musk also retweeting a picture of the blue origin lunar design known as blue moon with moon whited out and the world balls instead. so think rocket science meets locker room. by the way, a third rocket company also filed a protest. the government has 100 days whether to decide whether this has any merit.

this is that like you know jeff bezos got a lot richer because of amazon this last year but i know amazon saved my life. so did it him getting rich necessarily making me worse off whereas even maybe make me better off. well i mean it's the diverse because in the amazon warehouse there is work for. a lot of pressure very low wages that are certainly not. doing well because or better because business is doing so well i mean we have the i pads on have i think a very well. let me finish and of course i hear that they'd never get on over the last 40 years or so be have certain industries which minutes now has to extract the reigns from from the rest of the economy to large profits which are way above what a normal kind of company makes and that is at the at the cost and at the detriment of other parts of society yes i do think so so let me just bringing said i am economic numbers disappointing that people who have a lot of money in this conversation so my scope go out and then i'm going to have to turn in the argument from millionaires and billionaires who want to pay a wealth tax they want to

amazon's jeff bezos weighs in. speaking of amazon, the vice president of the company's cloud-based services will be among our guests wednesday in bloomberg tactics special -- bloomberg tech special, "chip crunch." we will examine the global surprise shortage and talk to ceos at nearly every stage of the production process, we will speak with the global foundry ceo and covering the chips shortage from all angles in our special, wednesday. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ emily: the tax plan president biden laid out will likely hit attack and to pharma particularly hard. -- hit tech and pharma particularly hard. the challenge for legislators will be to minimize loopholes that could diminish the impact, according to tax experts. i want to bring in bloomberg's laura davison who has been covering this in depth for us. what stands out to you? laura: tech and pharma have had the run of the tax code for a couple of decades. they have had all of the tax breaks advantages to them and they have had the flexibility because they were

ok so did you know jeff bezos made $3900000000.00 in one day just last week that is $120000.00 times more than the average amazon warehouse worker makes an entire year now this is basis says he is for raising corporate taxes which the funny part about this is it could actually only be a dollar for him because amazon has paid 0 federal taxes for the last 2 years but does the do what i say not what i do stop there well workers in the amazon facility and best summer alabama lost the vote to unionize just last week after everything was done by amazon the corporation to defeat that effort to discuss this as well as the contrast to how one of a death basis is other companies the washington post covers election transparency we bring in sara parent of antonio and levin tonio rafferty and steve malzberg host of eat the press here are to america thank you so much for joining me on this. thanks for having you know i think is a conversation that should have been had all weekend because once again i feel like we're seeing an example of this is for me but not for you sarah let's start with you 1st

jeff bezos is handing andy jassy a successful company firing on all cylinders. emily: the question is when. they made the point to announce this earlier this year. why are they being vague about when this happens? >> i don't know. they said the third quarter. i expect this is already a leadership transition process that is already taking place and they have a new ceo for aws and i imagine maybe andy jassy is back in his own shadow role following jeff bezos around and getting comfortable running the whole company. emily: all right. you would know better than almost anyone. brad stone, thank you so much for the insight. we will watch the amazon headlines as they roll out. that does it for this edition of bloomberg technology. i am going to be speaking with the twitter cfo tomorrow after the company's first-quarter earnings. don't miss it right here on bloomberg television. i'm emily chang in san francisco. thanks for joining us. this is bloomberg. ♪ so you're a small business, or a big one. you were thriving, but then... oh. ah. okay. plan, pivot. how do you bou

this is that like you know jeff bezos got a lot richer because of amazon this last year but i know amazon saved my life. so did it him getting rich necessarily making me worse off whereas even maybe make me better off. well i mean it's the diversions in the amazon warehouses who work for. a lot of pressure very low wages that are certainly not. doing well because or better because business is doing so well i mean we have the i pads on have i think a very well. let me finish and of course i hear we have to get. over the last 40 years or so be have certain industries which minutes now has to extract the reigns from from the rest of the economy to large profits which are way above what a normal kind of company makes and that is at the at the cost and at the detrimental effect of other parts of society yes i do think so so let me just bringing said i am economic numbers just bringing the people who have a lot of money in this conversation so my scope go out and then i'm going to actually turn in the argument from millionaires and been asked who wants to pay a wealth tax they want to pay money

the paper had a new owner, jeff bezos, the world's richest man and it had one of america's most lauded editors at its helm. marty baron had already been the editor of the miami herald and had seen his years at the boston globe get turned into an oscar—winning film called spotlight. sometimes it is easy to forget that we spend most of our time stumbling around in the dark. suddenly a light gets turned on and there is a fair share of blame to go around. back injanuary, marty baron announced that he would be stepping down as editor of the washington post, which he duly did. marty baron, welcome to the media show. thank you. many of our audience will have a vague sense of your achievements, maybe they will have seen that film, spotlight, but they will not know you very well, so let me ask a couple of questions to get to know you a bit better. were newspapers a big part of family life when you were growing up? they were. my parents were immigrants to the united states. they wanted to know a lot about their own country, this new country and they were interested in what was happening around

. >> but what finally stopped kim and her tracks was jeff bezos, people are outraged over the fact that the world's second richest man and first richest-- actually got richer during the pandemic. >> yep, that's why jeff bezos' growing net worth made it to the finals. by i way, what is bezos' net worth. >> it is so obscene it is just going to get bleeped. >> say it dude. >> okay, fine it is [bleep] dollars. >> damn, that really is a c word of money. >> but is it going to annoy people as much as the bracket's other finalist, mask under the nose wearers. >> why do people keep their nose uncovered. thes no-- nostrils are the third easy yeses opening of the coronavirus toant wednesday i think you mean second. >> not i way i do. so after five rounds it all comes down to jeff bezos' growing net worth versus masks under the nose wearerrers. >> and without further ado, the winner of "the daily show's" 2020 bracket of bullshit pandemic edition is mask under the nose warnerrers. >> oh man, this was a well deserved win, roy. >> i couldn't agree with you more, kosta, just look at your dumb nostril s

now jeff bezos is challenging it. he filed a protest with the government accountability office, accusing nasa of moving the goalposts for bidders at the last minute. musk, who owns spacex, fired back with a tweet that said, “can't get it up to orbit lol.” [ laughter ] that's the guy who's hosting “saturday night live.” [ laughter ] a feud between jeff bezos and elon musk is how we all die, right? [ laughter ] they're eventually going to get nuclear weapons and we will be killed. i have an idea. instead of astronauts, let's send jeff bezos and elon musk to the moon. [ applause ] that's right. first person to get a jar of peanut butter delivered there gets the contract. loser has to stay on the moon forever. winner, too. [ laughter ] we had some disappointing news today for thrill-seekers and drug-takers. for the second year in a row, the burning man festival, and the annual running of the bulls in pamplona, spain, have been cancelled. the mayor of pamplona said that with covid, it's just too dangerous to do som

jeff bezos out with his letter. such a big story for the company about the way your group -- workers are treated. interesting to see it higher. chips, another big story. i want to look at some of the specific names. taiwan semi conductor, the biggest manufacturer. even though it is traded in taiwan, we have u.s. adr, down 2%. only one of two stocks down thursday. what they are saying is they expected the shortage of semi conductors to continue into 2022. they upgraded the sales forecast. a mixed message for investors. elsewhere, lots of strength. what was so interesting is raymond james, at the same time, downgraded. nvidia has muscled into the space. we love tension in the story. you can see the stocks higher. i want to get some context and my final 10 seconds. the semi conductor index up reasonably. you can see taiwan semi conductor has lagged. what is the big lag? qualcomm. negative so far today. caroline: ed ludlow on the money. let's talk about a person saying his -- jeff bezos says it is clear the company need

>> there is no question that jeff bezos has been instrumental in our turn around. we needed fresh ideas and he came in with fresh ideas. >> reporter: and money. >> we'll talk about money -- >> reporter: the money wasn't the most important thing? >> no. the money was not the most important thing. the most important thing woo a fundamental change in our strategy. up to that point, we were focused on covering the region around washington. so when jeff came, he said this strategy that you have is -- may have been fine in the past, but it is not fine today. and now we have the opportunity to become national and international because we don't have to distribute physical papers all over the place. we can do it digitally. anybody anywhere in the world could read the "washington post." >> reporter: i didn't realize when he bought the "washington post," he already had a strategy. he studied it and came to you with a plan. >> there is no question. he does his research. >> reporter: over the last 15 years, over 2,000 newspapers in the u.s., that's one in five, have gone out of

tom: a marshall plan for jeff bezos? sonali: for the country. he believes that americans and the united states have lost belief in their institutions, everything from government, to schools, to business. >> this has been the ongoing theme this morning, the political nature of the bank in this particular letter. looking at the google threat, is he looking for more regulation for tech that is trying to get into the financial sector? is he looking for an acquisition? sonali: both. he signals a want to buy something. he's been doing that for a while. the specific interest is interesting and he does lay out the size of a ball -- of evolving competitors as a $5.6 trillion estimate about their size in this space. it's not just technology, its other shadow banking rivals, people in private credit, private equity, regulation is a part of this. we've been talking about regulation for days, but it's also the recognition, the first page of the report is j.p. morgan return on tangible common equity, how much it has risen since 2008. there is a question of ho

the house antitrust subcommittee has talked to jeff bezos. he testified about antitrust issues and faced questions about whether or not amazon uses data from their site of popular products picking up steam to then make their own amazon brand. he says they have rules against that at the company, but cannot guarantee it will have never been violated. to create their own amazon back-- brand products but amazon is dreck the responding to the small business coalition saying they are brand and their third-party sellers actually complement each other on their site and they also say in a statement given to his foxbusiness that small and do-- bedside business sales are growing faster than amazon first party sales and we are waiting to see what type of anti- trust crackdown will come out of congress. it's something democrats in the house and senate are looking at, but we really don't have any idea how far they are willing to go and whether or not it would force amazon to separate its own brand of its online marketplace. stuart? stuart: that is the thre

"forbes" magazine says amazon's jeff bezos tops its list of richest people at $177 billion. at number two, tesla's elo >> o'donnell: 2020 was a great year for billionaires. "forbes" magazine says amazon's jeff bezos tops its list of richest people at $177 billion. at number two, tesla's elon musk, bill gates, and facebook's mark zuckerberg are also in the top five. get this, warren buffet dropped out of the top five for the first time in two decades. but don't worry, he's worth more than $28 billion than last year. the ranks of billionaires grew by more than 30% and now includes kim kardashian, and bumble c.e.o. whitney wolfe herd. and now to a dramatic rescue in the north sea today. a dutch cargo ship caught in dangerously high seas almost capsized threatening the 12 crew members. a norwegian coast guard helicopter raced to the rescue, airlifting most of the crew off the deck, but a few had to be plucked from the sea. can you imagine? well, tonight, everyone is safe. coming up next, it's better than superman's cape-- how a robe can transform a child fighting a serious illne

your read. >> let's look at what jeff bezos is doing here. he understands corporate taxes are going up. there's no way around that. i think he's trying to cozy up to the administration right now, he's trying to gain some political capitol because joe biden has been very critical of amazon and how little tax they pay. he's been attacked by bernie sanders as well. so he says, all right. i'll go along with this because it is popular only because people don't know what is actually behind this. so that is what he does there. let me say what i think is really important to him. it's more about not losing deductions for things like r&d research and development an capital expenditures. if they can hold back on that, won't be back for sam -- amazon. if the global minimumtation doesn't -- why are countries like ireland going to cooperate with that. >> charles: it's nuts. >> people are just going to move to get around this. >> charles: i read a lot of estimates. for the most part, 7, 8, 9%, 10% hit. higher taxes. what does that mean for individuals? if t

bezos, they are hearing the issues but we saw jeff bezos spoke out about admini administration's policy. so management is realizing this is a real issue they want to get a foothold in front of now that's aside from the investor standpoint if you're an investor, we're happy and especially younger people are looking at it this is somethingyou want to take a strong look at and for management, they are doing that but it's something we want to keep a watchful eye on. >> victoria, what does this mean in terms of automation that's something amazon prides itself on since it was founded they found more efficient ways of do g doing things how would they respond to the efforts if they were more successful for the potential of more in the future does that make them more likely to replace humans with robots? >> leslie, this is a factor when employees are deciding on whether they want to unionize or not, that they may tend to forget and it just needs to be considered along with all other factors. so if they move towards unionization, they have to consider what the costs are for amazon they have to co

and owner of the washington post jeff jeff bezos is the wealthiest person in the world and to this pandemic which has seen amazon's profits nearly double has cemented his place at the top of the richest his company has always devoted a lot of money to image managed. to all of our hamazon retail heroes on the floor in the air and behind the wheel we want to thank you amazon spent 11000000000 dollars on advertising alone last year more than any other company amazon has been a subject in a political debate its head of communications is jay carney barack obama's former press secretary he says politically connected as they come in its dealings with the media amazon is not shy about throwing its weight around. so when i 1st joined the washington business journal i got to talk to one of my fellow reporters and they were telling me don't let amazon tell you what goes in short sometimes the company will reach out to you and i asked to talk off record and then they will proceed to tell you why your story is wrong and that you need to change your story and of course you know you'll be off or going to

owner of the washington post jeff jeff bezos is the wealthiest person in the world and to this pandemic which has seen amazon's profits nearly double has cemented his place at the top of the richest his company has always devoted a lot of money to image managed. to all of our hamazon retail heroes on the floor in the air and behind the wheel we want to thank you amazon spent 11000000000 dollars on advertising alone last year more than any other company amazon has been a subject in political debate its head of communications is jay carney barack obama's former press secretary he says politically connected as they come in its dealings with the media amazon is not shy about throwing its weight around. so when i 1st joined the washington business journal i got to talk to one of my fellow reporters and they were telling me don't let amazon tell you what goes in short sometimes the company will reach out to you last to talk off record and then they will proceed to tell you why your story is wrong and that you need to change your story and of course you know you'll be off or going to get a quo

and owner of the washington post jeff jeff bezos is the wealthiest person in the world and to this pandemic which has seen amazon's profits nearly double has cemented his place at the top of the richest his company has always devoted a lot of money to image managed. to all of our hamazon retail heroes on the floor in the air and behind the wheel we want to thank you amazon spent 11000000000 dollars on advertising alone last year more than any other company amazon has been a subject in political debate its head of communications is jay carney barack obama's former press secretary he says politically connected as they come in its dealings with the media amazon is not shy about throwing its weight around. so when i 1st joined the washington business journal i got to talk to one of my fellow reporters and they were telling me don't let amazon tell you what goes in short sometimes the company will reach out to you when asked to talk off record and then they will proceed to tell you why your story is wrong and that you need to change your story and of course you know you'll be offering to be the

interest and owner of the washington post jeff jeff bezos is the wealthiest person in the world and to this pandemic which has seen amazon's profits nearly double has cemented his place at the top of the richest his company has always devoted a lot of money to image managed. to all of our hamazon retail heroes on the floor in the air and behind the wheel we want to thank you amazon spent 11000000000 dollars on advertising alone last more than any other company amazon has been a subject in political debate it's head of the. communications is she can't walk obama's former press secretary he says politically connected as they come in its dealings with the media amazon is not shy about throwing its weight around. so when i 1st joined the washington business journal i got to talk to one of my fellow reporters and they were telling me don't let amazon tell you what goes in short sometimes the company will reach out to you last to talk off record and then they will proceed to tell you why your story is wrong and that you need to change your story and of course you know you'll be off or goi

bezos, on top. after a months-long battle, ultimately 738 workers at amazon's bessemer, alabama, warehouse voted to unionize and 1798 voted no. ballots from another 505 workers were challenged mostly by amazon. the retail, wholesale and department store union that led the drive says amazon illegally interfered in the vote, and it plans to file unfair labor practice charges with the national labor relations board. democracy now! co-host juan gonzÁlez tweeted in response to the vote -- "how do more than 2000 workers sign union cards at amazon's alabama plant but only 700 vote yes? and why did only half of workers vote when 3/4 normally vote in such elections? try examining employer intimidation." indeed, amazon spent millions to defeat the closely watched election and even got a private mailbox install -- u.s. postal mailbox install -- at the warehouse so it could pressure workers to mail their ballots from work and monitor votes. amazon responded to the claim in a statement, saying -- "it's easy to

i want to read you this quote from jeff bezos and amazon. he said we support the biden administration's -- both democrats and republicans supported infrastructure in the past, and it's the right time to work together to make this happen. we recognize this investment will require concessions from both sides, both on the specifics of what's included as well as how it gets paid for. we're support event of a rise in the corporate tax rate. what do you make of that warm hug from amazon on this infrastructure deal? >> listen, i mean, i think there's some level of a rock on with your bad self, jeff bezos. now how about getting amazon to pay more in taxes. one of the ways the biden administration is looking to pay for this infrastructure plan is to your paint, to raise taxes. we're already hearing pushback from all sorts of the companies, from the business round table. that led janet yell ton push this idea of a global minimum corporate tax rate. where she's saying, let's stop this race to the bottom where companies are looking for headquarters in l

bezos mark zuckerberg and larry page made their billions during the pandemic all the while economies around the world were tanking due to cope at 19 and more than 2000000 people have died from the chrono virus forbes released its list of the richest in 2021 topping the list is amazon founder jeff bezos with a net worth of 177000000000 there's no question the company saw an extreme boom in business as retail stores shut down and now even with the vaccines being rolled out many prefer the ease of having items to live or to their door bill gates microsoft founder has a net worth of 124000000000 in may of 2020 the gates foundation said it would donate 300000000 to fight cove it facebook founder mark zuckerberg makes the list at number 5 at 97000000000 with quarantine order and many working from home 0 commute gave people more time to scroll on the social network but just over 91000000000 google co-founder larry page makes number 8 on the list you tube which is owned by google saw more traffic on their video platform site during the pen demick and according to forbes this year was like no

and owner of the washington post jeff jeff bezos is the wealthiest person in the world and to this pandemic which has seen amazon's profits nearly double has cemented his place at the top of the richest his company has always devoted a lot of money to image managed. to all of our hamazon retail heroes on the floor in the air and behind the wheel we want to thank you amazon spent 11000000000 dollars on advertising alone last more than any other company amazon has been a subject in political debate it's head of the. communications is she can't walk obama's former press secretary he says politically connected as they come in its dealings with the media amazon is not shy about throwing its weight around. so when i 1st joined the washington business journal i got to talk to one of my fellow reporters and they were telling me don't let amazon tell you what goes in short sometimes the company will reach out to you last to talk off record and then they will proceed to tell you why your story is wrong and that you need to change your story and of course you know you'll be off or going to get a quote

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and owner of the washington post jeff bezos is the wealthiest person in the world and to this pandemic which has seen amazon's profits nearly double has cemented his place at the top of the richest his company has always devoted a lot of money to image managed. to all of our hamazon retail heroes on the floor in the air and behind the wheel we want to thank you amazon spent 11000000000 dollars on advertising alone last more than any other company amazon has been a subject in political debate it's head of the. communications is she can't walk obama's former press secretary he says politically connected as they come in its dealings with the media amazon is not shy about throwing its weight around. so when i 1st joined the washington business journal i got to talk to one of my fellow reporters and they were telling me don't let amazon tell you what goes in short sometimes the company will reach out to the house to talk off record and then they will proceed to tell you why your story is wrong and that you need to change your story and of course you know you'll be off or going to get a quot

charles, one of the biggest winners had to be jeff bezos. i know amazon stock has made him obviously a billionaire many times over and a worth over $200 billion. the richest man on the planet. that is a nice backdrop, huh? >> it's an amazing backdrop. not long ago, i was looking at photos when they first started. if you would have said then what he has been able to create with his team now is absolutely remarkable. you know, after the third quarter, he's given up the ceo role, going to be the chairman. he's going out on just a magnificent high that really is unparalleled. when you go back to the robert barons and adjust for inflation, never anyone like jeff bezos. he's young enough and hungry enough to make his mark in other places. that's what he's looking for next. >> neil: so you know, it's interesting. we talk about amazon and the fact that he's embraced i believe tim cook at apple as well, the higher corporate rates that the president wants to push right now. the rates of 28%. how would it impact these guys? would they be able to sell a

one of the reasons why is because it's gotten so expensive, and plus jeff jeff bezos is financing his new space exploration company that's rivaling elon musk's spacex. his ex-wife, mckenzie, is sharing stock for her charitable stuff. put all this together, you don't have retail participating, investors are saying if it's not tomorrow, it's going to be some time in 2021 where they believe that bezos, that amazon split its stock. not two for one, obviously, because that would still make it pretty high. a little less than $2,000 a shareful what we hear from people like scott redler, he's predicting a 7 to 1 stock split. the investor who was on your show a lot, liz, that he believes -- liz: trader. red dog. >> yeah, red dog. if it doesn't come tomorrow, it's going to come sometime in 2021. it's inevitable because you need retail participation in the stock given the fact that it's largely gnat lined in recent months -- flat lined. and if you look at unwith of the biggest gains its got after the last year was after we reported the investor chatter about a stock split. as we did that, it was

another successful tesla, jeff bezos origin company, that brings the rocket named after alan shepard closer to one day sandy humans back to space. hernandez, president and ceo on both these. flying a helicopter on mars, the first time besides planet earth humans will fly something on another planet. the pretty astounding. >> absolutely. it's very exciting because it's the very first time we are going to fly a fully controlled vehicle on another planet and it's going to allow us to demonstrate feasibility exploring another planet via air and it's going to be able to map out areas of interest future routes rovers so they can pass in a more efficient manner. eric: part of this as you mentioned, so we could fly robes further out a lot more capability to go larger distances not just that planet but elsewhere. >> yes. the amazing thing is that mars only has 1% of the volume of atmosphere the planet has. it's partially offset by the fact that gravitational pull of mars is 35% of the earth but a little 4-pound helicopter, or feet wingspan and rotational speed of about 1200 rpm to get the lif

bezos to secure the contract. the leaders of germany france and ukraine have called on russia to pull its troops back from the ukrainian border ukraine's president followed him as the lenski proposed a summit that would also include moscow which killed fears is preparing an invasion the conflict dates back to 2014 when ukraine's pro russian president was ousted in a popular uprising moscow back separatists have occupied the eastern donbass region and crimea ever since russia says its recent military buildup is a response to nato threats and ukrainian provocations. ukraine is gearing itself up for battle the country's military is in better shape than it was july war in 2014 but its firepower is no match for russia's military might. move. most of we are preparing we have a saying if you want peace always be prepared for war we are ready to meet an enemy on an island. the current buildup of troops along the ukrainian russian border has been described by the u.s. and nato as the largest there since 2014 a cause of gre

amazon needs to do a better job for its employees says its founder jeff bezos in his final letter to investors the company has often been criticized for harsh working conditions last week the retailer fought off an attempt by a warehouse workers in alabama to unionize. the coronavirus pandemic is raging unchecked in brazil for many students this means the end of their dreams of getting a higher degree and to making something of themselves instead of going to university they're now forced to do menial work for little pay just to get by. maria several sets off on her bike for a long day on the saddle the 29 year old will probably write 80 kilometers today as she does every day crisscrossing rio de janeiro to deliver food. that. i can't do anything else now because of this job i get up early and from that moment on i have to be completely at the beck and call of this app if not i automatically stop receiving orders paoli. murray has been carrying this orange bag for a year since the pandemic 1st hit she used to study history on a scholarship but that ran out during the coronavirus crisi