A conversation with Jeff Bezos, founder, president, chief executive officer and chairman of the board of Amazon.com
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February 26, 2009
Please use the comments to demonstrate your own ignorance, unfamiliarity with empirical data, ability to repeat discredited memes, and lack of respect for scientific knowledge. Also, be sure to create straw men and argue against things I have neither said nor even implied. Any irrelevancies you can mention will also be appreciated. Lastly, kindly forgo all civility in your discourse . . . you are, after all, anonymous.
"Overall household indebtedness is up from $7 trillion to almost $10 trillion since 2000. On this sum, we estimate, the American consumer has an annual interest bill of more than $500 billion; a sum, by the way, that vastly exceeds his current income growth." —Kurt Richebacher
Knowing that the vote over the weekend in Greece was really a referendum on Euro membership, a majority of the Greek Parliament said yes to staying. European Finance Ministers meet again on Wednesday to solidify the 2nd bailout package for Greece at the same time hopefully a deal is consummated between Greece and its creditors this week. The Greek 14.5b euro bond that matures on March 20th is up by 2 pts. The optimism that all will be completed and contained AGAIN to Greece has yields lower in Portugal, Spain and Italy. The iTraxx Financial Index is also narrower by...
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March 2nd, 2009 at 11:16 pm
Hilarious. Who knew that Charlie Rose was doing infomercials? I wonder if he could do a full show on Oxyclean…
March 3rd, 2009 at 2:33 am
I have to agree with Mr. Reeder. On top of that, it turns my stomach to see this guy up there when a huge, huge part of his business model and huge, huge portion of his revenues and operating margins is really just payment for his assistance in tax fraud by consumers in states like California who use his site to avoid sales and use taxes. It’s difficult to listen to his tired, rehearsed BS when one knows the true source of the (very meager) margins that Amazon produces.
March 3rd, 2009 at 6:45 am
as a above, this should provide definitive insight into Charlie Rose’s, no matter the guest, true stock-in-trade..
the ol’ Tarheel, yes, Rose, has long since been purchased wholesale..
March 3rd, 2009 at 6:20 pm
What is wrong with avoiding paying sales tax if you don’t have to? Bezos has done a great deal for book readers and for that we should be grateful.