Category: Jeff Bezos

NTD Business Full Broadcast (June 7)

Jeff Bezos is going to space. It’ll be his rocket company’s first crewed space flight ever, and it’s set for takeoff next month. The Treasury Secretary isn’t worried multi-trillion dollar spending proposals will cause prices to rise. And it could even be a good thing if they do. The new G7 tax deal is designed…


Jeff Bezos to Fly Into Space Next Month

The world’s richest man Jeff Bezos announced on Monday morning that he would fly into space on July 20 with his younger brother Mark Bezos. They will board the first human-crewed flight of the New Shepard, a rocket made by Bezos’s space company Blue Origin. “I want to go on this flight because it’s the…


Bezos Plans To Go to Space Aboard Blue Origin Flight in July

Jeff Bezos will be aboard for Blue Origin’s first human space flight next month. In an Instagram post early Monday, Bezos said he, his brother, and the winner of an ongoing auction, will be aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard spacecraft during its scheduled launch on July 20. July 20 is the anniversary of the Apollo…


Bezos Bids Farewell as CEO and Addresses Criticism at Amazon Shareholder Meeting

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos on Wednesday led his last shareholder meeting as CEO, announcing the date on which he’ll pass the reins to his replacement while highlighting challenges going forward and pushing back against claims that Amazon has become too big and powerful. Bezos, the second-richest person in the world after French luxury fashion magnate Bernard Arnault,…


A Mom’s Research (Part 4): Why Are Many Elites Leftists?

Commentary “Why are all successful people leftists?” said my daughter, challenging me with a smile. “Not all of them. Those leftists are just very loud,” I replied. I knew she meant Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey, Jeff Bezos, Tim Cook, Bill Gates, and other powerful people who are trying to change the world according to their…


Opinion: A Mom’s Research (Part 4): Why Are Many Elites Leftists?

Commentary “Why are all successful people leftists?” said my daughter, challenging me with a smile. “Not all of them. Those leftists are just very loud,” I replied. I knew she meant Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey, Jeff Bezos, Tim Cook, Bill Gates, and other powerful people who are trying to change the world according to their…


Tax Bill Gates’s and Jeff Bezos’s Family Foundations

Commentary Governments are about to launch a free-for-all of taxes to pay for the free-for-all of spending on COVID-19—taxes on income, on wealth, on beer and billionaires, on Netflix, on carbon, on real estate transactions, on stock holdings, on international holdings, on just about everything. But the tax-and-spenders now in control of the United States,…


Amazon Union Battle Arrives in Washington

The push to unionize in an Amazon warehouse in Alabama will be a major focus of a congressional hearing in Washington on Wednesday. Amazon worker Jennifer Bates is slated to testify to the Senate Budget Committee in an 11 a.m. hearing titled “The Income and Wealth Inequality Crisis in America.” Bates is an organizer attempting…


GOP Reps Demand Amazon Answers to Allegations of Censorship Against Conservative Viewpoints

Two Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee are asking Amazon to answer to allegations of “systemic viewpoint-based discrimination” against conservative viewpoints. In a letter to current Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Reps. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Ken Buck (R-Colo.) requested that the prominent cloud services provider turn over documents and information on its alleged censorship activities. “Big Tech,…


House Judiciary GOP Leaders Demand Amazon Answers to Allegations of Censorship Against Conservative Viewpoints

Two Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee are asking Amazon to answer to allegations of “systemic viewpoint-based discrimination” against conservative viewpoints. In a letter to current Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Reps. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Ken Buck (R-Colo.) requested that the prominent cloud services provider turn over documents and information on its alleged censorship activities. “Big Tech,…