Are. Its been a big week for Central Banks well round up the weeks events with our Business Editor simonjack. Spending on halloween is expected to hit a record 9. 1bn in the us this year. Today we want to know is it scary how much people are spending . Just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Hello and welcome to business live. Thursday was a huge day for Technology Company results. Four of the big global tech giants reported their latest earnings. Alphabet googles Parent Company, microsoft and twitter all posted their key numbers. But lets start with a look at amazon. The retailer reported revenues of almost 41 billion in the three months between july and september. Thats a jump of 34 over the same period last year. But profits were virtually unchanged since last year. Thats because this is often the quarter when amazon chooses to pile a bunch of money into its own projects like tech gadgets, streaming video and warehouses. The company has operated on this model for years and it seems to have
Welcome to the program. Im Jeff Greenfield filling in for charlie rose. Tonight a look at the growing divide within the Republican Party over healthcare. The first big legislative task on the Trump Administrations agenda. And whether the divide posts a long term threat to the republicans and the president. We talked to Bret Stephens of the wall street journal and had bill clinton passed welfare reform before he moved on to Health Reform its quite possible you wpbt have had the republican revolution of 1994 if george w. Bush tried doing something about the woes of middle class folks troubled by their gen Rule Health Insurance before massing a big task cut the bush years would have been different too. Trump has an opportunity to get this right by cutting ryan loose. We look at march madness the ncaa basketball tournament and a larger conversation about the ncaa. John feinstein, joe nocera and william rhoden. Whether its football or basketball does not care. If you go to a Football Game a
Welcome to the program. Im Jeff Greenfield filling in for charlie rose. Tonight a look at the growing divide within the Republican Party over healthcare. The first big legislative task on the Trump Administrations agenda. And whether the divide posts a long term threat to the republicans and the president. We talked to Bret Stephens of the wall street journal and had bill clinton passed welfare reform before he moved on to Health Reform its quite possible you wpbt have had the republican revolution of 1994 if george w. Bush tried doing something about the woes of middle class folks troubled by their gen Rule Health Insurance before massing a big task cut the bush years would have been different too. Trump has an opportunity to get this right by cutting ryan loose. We look at march madness the ncaa basketball tournament and a larger conversation about the ncaa. John feinstein, joe nocera and william rhoden. Whether its football or basketball does not care. If you go to a Football Game a
Loose. We look at march madness the ncaa basketball tournament and a larger conversation about the ncaa. John feinstein, joe nocera and william rhoden. Whether its football or basketball does not care. If you go to a Football Game and you start to ask people about the exploitation of athletes, theyll laugh at you. If you go to an ncaa game theyll laugh at you. Theres a segment of this society that has come to view this as a problem. Im among those people, something wrong is happening here in the way theyre treated both this terms of financial he can ploitation and academic exploitation. But most people dont care. Politics and march madness when we continue. Rose funding for charlie rose has been provided by the following and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and Information Services worldwide. Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Good evening, im Jeff Greenfield filling in for charlie rose. Donald trump was not e
The apollo 13 mission. This hour long interview was part of the oral history project. Oral history [ inaudible ] date is march 12, 1999. You cut your teeth in Mission Control as a Flight Controller responsible for spacecraft guidance and navigation. How did you manage to get in on the ground floor of a program like this . And what was your secret . It was not easy. I had actually tried to go to work for nasa in 1962 and the guy that interviewed me was gene kranz. Kranz and i couldnt get together on money so i said to heck with you and i went off and did something else. I went to General Dynamics in fort worth. But i knew i wanted to get there so bad. Finally two years later in 1964 i took a pay cut and went to work for kranz, with melbrooks and started out as a Flight Controller. The reason that i did, agina was what we were going to join up gemny with. I worked at the Satellite Test Center in california right after i got out of the air force in 1960. We flew those early flights from v