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During a recent episode of The Pomp Podcast featuring guest Jordi Visser, host Anthony Pompliano highlighted a striking proposal from Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) founder Jeff Bezos. Bezos believes the bottom 50% of Americans should pay no federal taxes. According to the discussion, the bottom half of earners currently contribute only 3% of the federal budget, which lends credence ... Jeff Bezos Says Bottom 50% of Americans Should Pay No Taxes. The Real Culprit Is Federal Spending
The economic gap between the U.S. and the U.K. has been widening for more than a decade. As a result, a new study has found that the U.K.'s GDP per capita is now lower than every single U.S. state.
If it seems like everything is expensive these days, it might not be just because of inflation. When tariffs were raised, those costs were either passed onto consumers or companies. And now that some of the tariffs from the past year have been deemed unconstituitional, companies want their money ...
Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Commerce injected massive momentum into the quantum computing sector, announcing over $2.0 billion in federal incentives under the CHIPS and Science Act across nine quantum computing companies. D-Wave (QBTS) secured a $100 million letter of intent to accelerate domestic system fabrication, granting the federal government an equity stake. The stock surged immediately on the news, reflecting renewed investor confidence in sovereign backing for quantum infrastructu
Large online streaming services must contribute 15% of their Canadian revenues to Canadian content, the country's federal broadcast regulator said Thursday. The CRTC made the decision as part of its implementation of the Online Streaming Act, which the U.S. has identified as a trade irritant ahead of trade negotiations with Canada. “The total contributions are expected to stabilize the funding at more than $2 billion in support of Canadian and Indigenous content, such as French-language content and news,” the regulator said in a press release.
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the ruling on 20 May 2026, supporting a lower court decision that struck out the qui tam case brought by relators Mike Henig and Henig Furs under the False Claims Act.
(Bloomberg) -- The S&P 500 Index has had a fitful 2026 as it aims for a fourth-straight year of double-digit percentage gains, something it hasn’t done since the 1990s, while contending with risks from the war in Iran and rising inflation. Most Read from BloombergSpot the Difference: Putin Gets Trump Treatment From Xi in ChinaModi’s Toffee Gift to Meloni Ignites Rally in Wrong Indian StockIran Threatens to Retaliate Beyond Middle East If US AttacksGoldman CEO Slides Into Musk’s DMs During Bid to
The Amazon founder said eliminating taxes for lower-income Americans could ease financial pressure and encourage entrepreneurship.
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK, May 20 (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday rejected a whistleblower's claim that Amazon.com helped foreign fur manufacturers evade tariffs on products sold on
(Bloomberg) -- To judge by a key bond-market signal, the AI boom is only worsening Kevin Warsh’s inflation problem.Most Read from BloombergUS Lawmakers Plan New $130 Fee for Electric Vehicle OwnersHasbro Cancels Dungeons & Dragons Game From ‘Star Wars’ VeteranNATO Is Starting to Consider Hormuz Mission to Protect ShipsUS 30-Year Yield Hits Highest Since 2007 as Selloff DeepensMeta Begins 8,000 Global Job Cuts in AI Efficiency PushThe incoming Federal Reserve chair previously lashed out at the ce
Although the lawsuit means it’s possible you could get some cash from Amazon, don’t expect two-day shipping.
AI’s big bucks go mostly toward computing gear like chips and servers in data centers. Should that trend persist, it could come to bite suppliers including chip giant Nvidia which reports quarterly results after the bell today. Nvidia can insulate itself from cost inflation by expanding offerings that don’t require as much in-demand memory, by passing on higher prices to customers and by inking longer-term deals with its own suppliers at lower prices.
Elon Musk-led SpaceX has written a letter to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), urging the agency to end the High-Cost program aimed at providing connectivity to rural areas via subsidies for internet service providers (ISPs). SpaceX Says It Has Solved...
The class-action complaint claims Amazon prioritized political goodwill over reimbursing shoppers for invalidated IEEPA tariffs.
Consumer complaint adds legal risk after Supreme Court tariff ruling
The period spans from when tariffs were imposed under the IEEPA to the US Supreme Court’s ruling that the law did not give President Trump authority to impose them.
Amazon faces a class action lawsuit accusing the company of retaining unlawful tariff costs instead of refunding consumers who paid higher prices.
Investing.com -- Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN) has been hit with a proposed class-action lawsuit by consumers seeking refunds for inflated product costs passed down from tariffs that the U.S. Supreme Court later ruled were unlawfully imposed by President Donald Trump, according to a Reuters report.
By Nate Raymond May 15 (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc was sued on Friday by consumers seeking refunds for costs passed on to them in the form of higher prices as a result of tariffs the U.S.
Markets don’t move in a straight line — and neither do the people running the country. Q1 2026 was a quarter defined by tariff headlines, rate uncertainty, and a broad S&P 500 pullback that rattled retail and institutional investors alike. Most people were paralyzed. Some panicked. And at least one person — or rather, one ... President Trump’s Stock Broker Was the Busiest Person in America in Q1
Raj Subramaniam downplays fears around logistics expansion push
For years, Federal Reserve minutes were among Wall Street's most market-moving events. But in today's AI-driven rally, one earnings report may now rival macro data releases in influence: Nvidia Corp (NASDAQ:NVDA). The Santa Clara, California-based chip giant, whose earnings are due next week, is worth roughly $5.3 trillion and recently surpassed the entire S&P 500 healthcare sector in market value, according to Barron's. Essentially, Nvidia is proving to be more than just another mega-cap tech s
FEATURE Amazon com was disrupting things again on Tuesday. The online retail giant announced 30-minute rapid deliveries on “thousands of groceries and essentials.” The service is now in Atlanta, Dallas–Fort Worth, Philadelphia, and Seattle, “with rapid expansion underway in dozens more U.
Bank of America has added FedEx (NYSE:FDX) to its “US 1 List,” a collection of its best investment ideas. The move, announced May 11, is a high-conviction symbolic signal even without a fresh price target attached. For long-term investors, the inclusion reframes FedEx stock as one of Wall Street’s preferred industrial transformation plays heading into ... BofA Just Picked FedEx Stock as One of Its Best Ideas: Logistics Giant Joins the US 1 List
American families are expected to spend up to $38 billion on Mother's Day this year, according to the National Retail Federation (NRF), $3.2 billion of which will go toward buying flowers. UrbanStems CEO Meenakshi Lala discusses broader consumer spending trends, especially for these sentimental holidays, while Americans navigate the K-shaped economy.
