second headquarters. reporter: new york city emerged as one of the winners. new york governor andrew cuomo had said hq2 would launch new york as a rival to silicon valley. mayor de blasio promised it would benefit locals. hq2 did not get a warm welcome from everyone in the big apple. amazon pulling the plug on plans to build a campus in new york city. progressive new york politicians like alexandria ocasio-cortez criticized the billions in promised tax breaks and state grants. amazon didn t like the heat and killed the deal. number seven, the unicorn bubble bursts. wall street had high hopes for the market debut of startups worth at least $1 billion. lyft is leading a herd of unicorns ooub has arrived. slack shares rocket. reporter: enthusiasm quickly became disappointment. the year s biggest ipo is struggling reporter: the problem the companies aren t profitable, and in the case of uber and lyft,
through the amazon web services so over the past year, their business has been declining. they expected a 36% decrease in sales and with actually less than 30% so they are that s what s making these earnings really falter. charles: so this is not a proxy as for the american consumer? not really. amazon didn t spend a lot of money making sure that prime was up and running t to a buddy also to take a look at the numbers on web services. charles: a few years ago, they could spend all the money on the infrastructure stuff and alt wall street was okay with that but they don t make any money now. i guess they have to really prove themselves quarter after quarter like everyone else. we were. it s the i want to switch gears here a moment. up earlier vice president pence delivered a speech on china still talking about especially when it comes to companies that are doing business over there. take a listen. far too many american
allowed to speak and some views are not allowed. judge amy jackson was an actual judge, now threatening roger stone with prison time because he wrote a new introduction to his book that says unflattering things about robert mueller. that is not a crime according to judge amy jackson. amazon, which completely and utterly dominates the book sales market aroundes the world just banned a book by british activist tommy robinson because the book is critical of islam. by the way, books criticizing christianity are still in abundance a plan amazon but amazon didn t just refuse to sell robinson s book, they banned users from selling used copies other than secondhand. amazon s crackdown as part of a much wider effort. facebook shut down tommy robinson s h page. to banned him. people vastly richer and more powerful than you, richer and more powerful than any of us, want you to know that whatever robinson is sayingvi is evil and wrong, , and mediators. i don t even know what he s saying.d it doesn
asked before. reporter: some of those unanswered questions, according to the councilman was, where are these employees going to come from? are you promising to hire locally or are we expecting a slew coming from silicon valley to work here? we talk about $150,000 being the average range. does that mean you re going to pay two lucky people, more than 600,000, close to $1 million and the rest get a lower salary when it s so expensive to live here already? and the third point has to do with local housing. councilman said the area was designated for local housing and amazon didn t want to talk about that. so we have a lot of americans watching, wondering, what about me? amazon has said that they re going to continue hiring. they re going ahead with northern virginia, with hiring in nashville, tennessee and possibly other locations, but no word about the search for its
salaries. bill: he said i should be paying for taxes. you would say cut a tax. bill gates saying he would like to pay more but they think that income tax is not give it away. instead that s the problem they actually create someone climbs a mountain and pull up the ladder because now no one else can duplicate what bill gates or howard schultz has done. if they stop someone who finally made a million dollars. you want to crush that person. maybe the first person in their family to make that kind of money, maybe they can put their little brothers through college and buy a house. no, you want to snatch it from them the first generation to make a million even though you are a billionaire. that s the fallacy with the progressive billionaires okay with higher taxes. amazon didn t pay any taxes last year. that s a different story. bill: how do we get on that