Is tomas docs and he used to be a bank clerk now in his new home of china hes a star. Almost acts and is an influencer he promotes German Companies online in china he spent the last 4 years living in shanghai and watching how chinas digitalisation istream passed out of germany. This includes payment one standbys his coffee hope but thats not all. To most decks and uses apps to organize his entire life. To do so with so much good for instance i can use city service to check how much pension ill get with Health Insurance parking tickets you can even pay your electricity your doctors bill you can do just about anything and just one simple app yeah i dont carry my wallet with me just my cell phone and you know but. And since this is now the case for most people in china even the poorest have switched to mobile payment this may. Was wearing his painted coat around his neck. Did you get your digitalisation really is a revolution would you dont get to choose whether to take part in it or not
Information from dan is taking these new positions in the Second Quarter according to his quarterly letter in disney, amazon, alibaba. Well focus on disney first and foremost josh, i just got off phone with dan who told me the following about why they initiated this position he said theres no close second to disney when it comes to an entertainment company. He says they have slate of tent poll releases. We know the titles they have he said some of the commentary,s the narrative of how disney plus is being thought of in the context with netflix its not a winner take all environment. They have to take market he thinks is easily split between those two and some other players. He also, which was interesting as well likened disney to microsoft 7 or eight yea8 years. You have a time old business and youre able in some respects to reinvent yourself. Much as microsoft has done we know how well that stock has done lately. He seems a similar scenario for shares of disney josh, let me get your ta
But i think that the sideways period that we have had, has that cooled off for a few weeks, going nowhere. The s p has been in the tight range through july that whole period netted out we could not get away from upside risk. No selloffs, and you had things like m a popping up today and friday, and the idea that we may get a fiscal deal, and the highest stocks in the world continue to pull in dollars. Yeah, i know in general youre not a huge fan of seasonty and people making arguments based on seasons, but s p only had three positive augusts in the last decade i dont know that it changes that i feel like you have to be mindful of seasonty but know what it means. There is a tendency to have a uptick in compatibility and market action. I dont know if that is market wide or not. I think you have to be aware of it combined with the fact that youre seeing froth. It seems to come together. I find it interesting today that the dollar is bouncing and not really taking anything out of the big in
On twitter or facebook. Lets start with yesterdays hearing. Chairman of the house judiciary antitrust subcommittee kicking off this hearing in the opening remarks saying that he believes these Companies Need to be reined in. The practices have armful economic effects. They discourage entrepreneurship, destroy jobs, and degraded quality. Simply put, they have too much power. This power staves off new forms of competition, creativity, and innovation. While these firms produce individual products, the dominance is killing Small Businesses, manufacturing, and dynamism that our engines of the american economy. Several firms harvest and abuse peoples data to sell ads from everything to new books and dangerous miracle cures. They cant run away fast enough. There is no escape from the surveillance because there is no alternative. People are stuck with bad options. Open markets are predicated on the idea that if a company harms people, consumers, workers, and Business Partners will choose anoth
Industry. They took questions about the use of thirdparty seller data and allegations of anticonservative bias. The subcommittee will come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare recess at any time. Welcome to todays hearing on marketing power. Amazon, apple, facebook, and google. I would like to remind members we have established a distribution list dedicated to circulating specific motions or other written materials members might want as part of our hearing today. If you would like to submit materials, submit them to the email address distributed to your offices. We will circulate materials as quickly as we can. Thatld also remind members face coverings are required for all meetings in an enclosed space such as Committee Hearings. I expect all members on both sides of the aisle to wear a mask except when you are speaking. I recognize myself for an opening bateman Opening Statement. This committee launched an investigation into Digital Markets to document compe