giantjoint microsoft, meta and alphabet delivering a surprisingly strong report card. if the sales and profits surpassed wall street expectations, continuing a trend in big tech that is lifted buckets across the board. amazon has been aggressively cutting costs to help boost profitability. it is already laid off 18,000 people and is currently about to eliminate another 9000 jobs and it would appear that some of those measures are already paying off. as the retail giant posted earnings that beat investor expectations. is on s cloud computing business which did not grow as much is expected did very well in the first three months of this year, as did its advertising business amazon s. even retail, a core part of their business, exceeded expectations. the boom in online shopping during the pandemic has waned and people are going back into stores but amazon was still able to get customers to its website, as recent figures show consumer spending in america remains steady. but wh
that s troubling if that is indeed the case. neil: and we don t know whether that s the case, but what mark esper was telling us, there was an easy time you could have shot down the balloon, they call it a weather balloon, more than gathering temperatures for people, but this is a shot right now over the skies of north carolina, you guessed it, by the map and the map of the united states, that s the last stop before you get to the atlantic ocean and then, what happens is anyone s guess. a lot of people say we shoot it down to see what the technology because lost in the sauce is how big this thing is typically six times of a traditional weather balloon and that it s gone very, very far. some say propelled by wind, others say by things far more advanced which is why some want to take at that look at it. we ll be exploring that with among others, chuck hagel, the former secretary, and mark green, he ll weigh in and many, many more. we re not done with this issue. the impact what
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