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We will talk to him about what is ahead for 2020. He is the amazon executive who resigned over what he called vein of toxicity running through company culture. Those stories in a moment but first, tech earnings trickling out today. Abigail doolittle is with us. Abigail there was some action later in the day. Another sleepy day for much of the day for stocks. Record highs for the s p 500 and the nasdaq. News came out from pfizer, another headline that pfizer, the doses they will be able to provid...

Gain tackling your questions on the rally ahead. The trader radar, what are you buying and selling today, josh melissa lets start with what is popular on robin hood according to robin track. That the Spartan Energy acquisition nio popular not only today by the way but saw the biggest gain in popularity for the week netflix, amazon and microsoft. As for Spartan Energy, lets dig into names there is report it could do a spak that would allow the ip ocho plan to make a vehicle everybody wants a piec...

Conditions have been fired during the pandemic and one of these incidents leaked amazon memos revealed that p. R. Executives in a meeting attended by the grand poobah himself the worlds richest man jeff bezos plan to publicly character assassinate fired warehouse employee Christian Smalls for simply organizing a small walkout over employees safety concerns so one former Vice President amazon tim bray writes that the firing of whistleblowers isnt just a side effect but that its evidence of a bane...

Treasury yields are up as jobless claims drop. And open for business again, but where is everybody . Errie calm after restrictions were lifted. Muted the session seemed after the week where we saw gains in global markets. We have a pause when it comes to the stock rally overnight. Finally starting to address the the data we trickling and showing the impacts of the pandemic on the Global Economy and the evaluations we see when it comes to markets. Japanese features trending a little lower at the ...

A boom bust panel on hand to break it down got a packed show today so lets dive right in. And china announced tuesday a new set of u. S. Products eligible for waivers from salvatore tariffs put in place amid the height of the trade war between the worlds 2 largest economies now the Chinese Foreign ministry issued a statement saying the waivers on 79. 00 products will be put in place on the 19th of may and expire in may of 2021 the new list of products with waivers includes ores of rare earth met...

A little thing called courage at least thats according to top engineer and now former amazon Vice President tim brady the Washington Post reports that he was giving up his job and forgoing a paycheck that could top 1000000. 00 because he no longer felt comfortable working for a company that is comfortable firing whistleblowers with legitimate concerns and just what were these whistleblower concerns well you know the Little Things like oh workers Safety Climate change issues and the need to union...

A little thing called courage at least thats according to top engineer and now former amazon Vice President tim brady the Washington Post reports that he was giving up his job and forgoing a paycheck that could top 1000000. 00 because he no longer felt comfortable working for a company that is comfortable firing whistleblowers with legitimate concerns and just what were these whistleblower concerns well you know the Little Things like oh workers Safety Climate change issues and the need to union...

Is now reporting that at least 6 amazon workers who have participated in protests or vocally advocated for improvements to worker safety and conditions have been fired during the penn demick in one of these incidents leaked amazon memos revealed that p. R. Executives in a meeting attended by the grand poobah himself the worlds richest man jeff bezos planned to publicly character assassinate fired warehouse employee Christian Smalls for simply organizing a small walkout over employees safety conc...

Justice and made please the court, the issues here are unprecedented in every sense. Before these cases, no court had ever upheld the courts use of subpoena powers to the records of a sitting president with a broad swath of the president s personal papers to the let alone purpose of the a potential legislation. There is a reason this is the first time a set has attempted such a gambit. Because, grist has subpoena power, it is subordinate and when that power is deployed against the president , it...

Er state under state law as to the president. The Second Circuit is wrong [indiscernible] are elected to office and are accountable to the local constituencies. The decision would allow any da to harass and interfere the sitting president and subject the president to local prejudice that could influence decisions in the state grand jurys can be utilized to issue compulsory process and im targeting the president. This is not mere speculation. Would have taken place in this case. Would have taken ...