Ecommerce growth that even as they do sends some other packages out through u. P. S. , fedex, logistics and others the vast majority, Something Like twothirds of their packages go the last Mile Delivery to peoples doorsteps through the Postal Service back over to you. Sometimes Postal Service delivers on sunday specifically for amazon, several years ago. Thanks, morgan. Lets talk about this. Are the president s attacks on amazon a sign of bigger issues ahead for the company . Donald, and dave are both with us. Welcome to you both. Tom, you think a strong argument could be made that amazon is getting a sweetheart deal here right . I definitely think if you look at the research ive read, theyre getting as much as a 1. 46 subsidy on a perpackage basis. I do think in the case of the u. S. Postal Service Amazon is definitely getting a sweetheart deal, yes. Donald, what about you . Well, absolutely. You know, the bottom line is the post office is subsidized its Parcel Delivery through its fi
Week in the futures market. The nasdaq would be down about 10 102 points and this comes after the dow closed in triple digit negative territory yesterday despite a big spike in oil. We did see another negative session in asia. Of course among the big reasons, new Economic Data showing chinas Manufacturing Sector contracted last month. It contracted at the fastest pace in three years. The official number contracting for the First Time Since february. You can see how the Chinese Markets are he reacting to that. Down about 1. 25 but you can see a sharply reaction in hong kong and shen seven which shows chinas higher growth stocks. Meantime, exports from south korea tumbled by the most in six years so that is also effecting the markets here. Shanghai composite was down as much as 5 before recovering to close down 1 thanchts loo. That looks better. We have to switch the percentages. Soon, now, today i think. Instead of arresting people that are selling stocks like in china. Thats first reac
Also an advisory to immediate quick wrapping stories, an exclusive story done by abc news head this morning. Posted about an hour ago. For the questionandanswer we we will be using a handheld microphone. We alive on cspan tv. I will give you the mike. With that i would like to open the floor up. I i am a journalist based in dc. I would like to ask what you learned from your campaign in 2012. Obviously an active campaign but im wondering what you might have learned about politics, stuff that goes on in washington things that may surprise you and how it might impact your 2016 campaign. Thank you. My run in 2012 came after a series of runs at the local and state level, and i have to say what was surprising was that there was really nothing surprising about politics and the kind of back fighting game has its place. What was surprising to me was already people are people are in our community to rise up and fight for something different. That amazed me command we were only beginning to build
To those neglected. She is a physician specializing in internal medicine and an advocate for health and environmental issues. From the National Press club this is 30 minutes. [applause] thank you, dennis. Thank you, to head rock and anita for saying so well what it is we are here for and what it is we are dedicated, too, and working for and towards. And this is such a wonderful time to be doing that. And thank you, actually to you all for being here today because this is an amazing historic moment. There is a movement for democracy and justice that is sweeping the planet. And people are rising up and calling for an america and a world that works for all of us. We are told that we are in a recovery but in fact we are in an emergency and the Political Parties that got us into this mess are completely uncapable of getting us out so the American People are leading the way forward. And the demand for deep change has grown to a fevered pitch. Young people are leading the black lives movement
Africa. So, i think we are seeing a perhaps unplanned, but none the less, an expansion of the chinese ability to deploy ships far beyond regional wars. But not necessarily to the indian ocean or persian gulf. No, they are doing some of that. Since december 2008 of course, theyve had to Counter Piracy formations in the gulf of aden. They are slowly beginning to deploy more and more ships into the indian ocean. The fact that earlier i guess last year, they sent a conventionally powered submarine, certainly has gotten the indian navys attention. The indian navy tends to take an exaggerated view but none the less we are seeing increased distance deployment by the chinese navy. On mikes question, if i remember my World History correctly, there actually arent too many cases of a continental power becoming maritime power. Soviet yoon ontried, failed. Were the only one. So, what china is setting for itself is not a small goal. On allens question, i agree that once you have the capabilities, th