on masking twitter aside, th past year brought discoverie both good and bad in the sector jake ward has more for us. 2022 saw the enormous potential and the enormous risks of technology play out over a single year there were a lot of promises made that wound up going nowhere or worse the biggest, of course, with crypto, the stuff of super bow commercials and overnight and in 2022 in flames are sa bankman-fried, founder of ftx, became the face of a crisi which wiped out individual investors and deeply wounded the industry until investigators closed in and ha him arrested in the bahamas. big tech companies, symbols of analyst growth, flailed this year as the economy suffered medicine from the trillion dollar valuation last year t 268 billion dollars this year. advertising fell apart and a blue billions on its founder stream of the metaverse whic we will work and play in tech companies laid off tens o thousands of people. no one tech company grab the headlines quite like twi
you do not represent our movement. you do not represent our country. and if you broke the law, i already said you will pay. the demonstrators who infiltrated the capitol have defied the seat of justice, defiled. see, i can t see it very well. i ll do the. i m going to do this. let s go. but this election is now over. congress has certified the results. i don t want to say the election is over. i just want to say congress has certified the results without saying the election is over, okay? let me go to the paragraph before. welcome back to morning joe. it s 9:00 a.m. in the east, 6:00 a.m. out west, and that was the raw footage of outtakes from former president trump s taped address the day after the capitol riot. now, this morning the committee in charge of investigating the attack has finally issued its findings. this report came out late last night, david ignatius. you look at donald trump the day after there is an attempt to overthrow america s government. and he h
good morning and welcome back to morning joe on this friday, december 30th, new year s eve eve. it is 9:00 a.m. on the east coast, 6:00 a.m. as you wake up out west. let s dive right in to a newly released batch of deposition transcripts from witnesses who spoke to the house select committee including members of former president donald trump s inner circle including former white house communications director alissa farah griffin. she spoke to the panel on april 15th describing her tenure at the trump white house as a wild eight months in her words. griffin revealed one serious and ongoing problem was a lack of organization. she described the trump white house in which jobs were filled with underqualified staff because more senior government officials would not take positions within the administration. griffin said any report about the trump white house being chaotic and operating without structure was, quote, more or less accurate. that included there being no competent gat
yeah. if you look at the stock, if you look at microsoft, if you look at apple, amazon, apple is only down 20%, but amazon down 47%, these were institutions we believed in. and all of a sudden, and this is one of those things a lot of people have looked at their 401(k)s and go what happened? i think s off 30%, 40% collectively, these big tech companies, and this was what was fueling the economy and a lot of people think it will be a long time before it comes back. amazon has given negative guidance going forward. one of the institutions we lost confidence in. donny, at the beginning of the pandemic, i remember talking to somebody who said you need to invest in the stock market. i m not a stock market guy. if i don t understand it, if i m not on top of it, i don t do it.
someone who said you need to invest in the stock market i m not a stock market guy if i don t understand it, if i m not on top of it, i don do it. this guy said to me, egos, jus go into five stocks. go into the monopolies microsoft, amazon, google, facebook, what was the fifth apple. they just absolutely explode during the pandemic. those talks exploded i want to draw your attentio to someone else who is a massive a brand down through all of this, which is mark zuckerberg who lost 100 billio dollars of his net worth ove the past year because facebook has cratered and they don seem to have a second act. facebook is down 62%. they ve lost two thirds of the value of their company meta has been a disaster