rates. that eats into corporate profits. u.s. economy is hot. jerome powell thinks it is necessary. the fed is an independent agency. overt white house criticism is pretty rare unless you are the trump white house. e-bay accusing amazon of trying to poach sellers and using e-bay's message system. claiming it tried to lure away high value merchants. a high number of amazon sales reps hid identity to send messages to e-bay represents. amazon declined to comment. some facebook investors think the company would be better off without mark zuckerberg was chairman. a few public funds sent a proposal to the facebook board. they want to remove mark zuckerberg. leave him as ceo. he shouldn't have both jobs.