Statement by Jeffrey P. Bezos Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Amazon before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law July 29, 2020

Thank you, Chairman Cicilline, Ranking Member Sensenbrenner, and members of the Subcommittee. I’m Jeff Bezos. I founded Amazon 26 years ago with the long-term mission of making it Earth’s most customer-centric company.My mom, Jackie, had me when she was a 17-year-old high school student in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Being pregnant in high school was not …

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Forgiving Trump

Photo art by Esmeralda Ordaz Antonio Navalón The physical death of living organisms has different manifestations, but, in itself, death is poisonous. At some point Gabriel García Márquez said that “the only bad thing about death is that it is forever”, but an element that …

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Economic Policy in times of Coronavirus, two approaches

Economic policy in times of Coronavirus, two approaches         It is interesting to observe in a graph the correlation between the deluge of money released by the Federal Reserve Board since March, and its effect on the S&P 500 index. The moment the funds start to flow, the direction of the curve reverses its course …

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Presidential Visits

     On June 23, in one of his public comments, President Donald J. Trump was bragging about the beauty of his fortress-like wall at the Mexican border. For the 56th occasion in the past few months, he thanked Mexico and its president in particular, for …

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Days of fire and fury

Antonio NavalónYear ZeroIt is written in the Bible, “He who sows winds will reap storms.” A long time ago, from the structural change that supposed to leave the industries for speculation, to change the steel only for the military, financial and technological influence, the United States began to play with the dice of the interpretation …

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The Sermon and the Bravado

Jesús Silva-Herzog Marquez When a politician loses his sense of ridicule, he has lost contact with reality. I can’t find another word to describe the new pearl of presidential wisdom. For times of extreme urgency, ridiculousness. A message that moves to laughter, mockery. An involuntary …

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