billion in a year. right? giving away $8 billion as fast as she can. amazon is worth so much as a company, giving away billions of dollars a year doesn t effect the fact her net worth keeps going up. it s not like she is jeff bezos. jeff bezos is worth something like $190 billion. he says he has so much money now the only thing he can think of to do with it all is to launch himself into space. i know yo think i m kidding. he said, quote, the only way i can deploy this much financial resource is by converting my amazon winnings into space travel. that is basically it. so now he s doing it. funding a space tourism company and heading to space next month himself. the wealth that amazon, that
decision in his career. sales of halogen lightbulbs are to be banned in the uk from september, with fluorescent lights to follow, under government climate change plans. the move will cut $1.2 million tonnes of carbon emissions a year and deliver consumers savings, officials say. the uk began phasing out the sale of higher energy halogen lightbulbs in 2018 under eu wide rules. the us senate has voted to approve a sweeping package of legislation which would boost the country s ability to compete with china s technology. the legislation approves a 190 billion budget to strengthen america s technology and research, and would include a further $50 billion to increase us production and research into semiconductors and telecoms equipment. joining me now is mariko oi from our asia business hub of singapore.
a lot of food have become high-calorie and tasty yummy, those are easily available. the average male 59, 205 pounds, severely a piece would be 236 pounds and average female 5-foot 4 inches and 203 pounds or be obese. is this cultural, were talking the half the population. are we in this together? we are in this together. this is a crisis and i want to put this into perspective, $190 billion every single year on obesity and that will continue to grow. we have better things to put our money too. what can be done for the individual fighting the battle because it can be a battle for so many people. a lot of power of what we put in her mouth, how much and how much activity. it s how we use our stress. drink a glass or two of water before you eat a meal. that will fill you up. make half of your plate veggies.
not hit new record levels. you. say there are three big reasons why this should matter to everybody out there. the potential impact on american consumers is higher mortgages, higher car loans, higher credit card payments. explain why you believe higher national debt leads to these three things. when the u.s. is borrowing, it means we re borrowing from somewhere else. one lucky thing we ve had is that interest rates have stayed low, because so many people want to lenned to the u.s. at the same time, we re seeing the entire world get overindebted. we don t know how long other countries will want to keep lenneding us or giving us this credit. if and when interest rates go up it would lead to additional spending of $190 billion a year
for british companies in america, and 1 million britons do the same for american companies here. our trading relationship is worth over 190 billion pounds a year, and we re the largest investors in each other s economies, with mutual investments valued at as much as $1 trillion. mr. president, you and i agreed the first time we met that we should aim for an ambitious free trade agreement when the uk leaves the eu. and from our positive discussions today, i know that we both remain committed to this. i m also sure that our economic relationship will only grow broader and deeper, building on the conversations we had and the ideas we heard, from uk and u.s. businesses when we met them earlier today. tomorrow, we will sit down in portsmouth with our fellow leaders to reaffirm the enduring importance of the western alliance and the shared values that underpin it. and as we look to the future, in the years and in the generations ahead, we will continue to work