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You for coming on to discuss monopolies suck. Its a very timely book because the issues you write about in the book, the power of dominant companies in the u. S. Economy and the impact on workers and consumers and citizens is really a very hot topic in economics and policy making right now. And we will see but could play a big role in the incoming Biden Administration. So i thought we should begin with sort of the big picture about, that you lay out in the book. I think when people hear the title they might say of course, no one likes monopolies, no one likes dealing with monopolies. The religious book is about a bigger issue. You are warning about a warring trends across the economy that i think many people may not fully understand. I think you could maybe first set the scene for us and describe what you see happening. Guest first, thank you so much for taking the time to talk to me today about this book, and thank you to c ....
Lot going on as stuart did tell you that whole hearing where the tech giants will gather virtually at least. It is parked back maybe half an hour. I was doing back of the napkin guesstimating on their wealth. That is on, i think is worth about 180 billion. Our Charlie Brady follows this thing would know to the penny. I think it is roughly about that. Mark zuckerberg facebook, close to 90 billion, close to 2 billion, tim cook of apple, thanks to appreciation of that stock, he is at around 2 billion. So lets say you were to add all of this. These are numbers. I added it all up. That is 272 billion collectively. These are among the richest men on the planet, particularly when it comes to bezos and zuckerberg. But putting companies combined market cap at north of 5 trillion. If you were to add microsoft to that bunch, microsoft will not be part of this hearing. They represent the five most valuable companies in the world. Isnt that ama ....
States, again launching these initiatives right now to really unwind this process. By the end of the week the country as a whole will be 50 freer, if you will, or less locked down when all of this started. So that is a Big Development here. As people get back, a lot of them look forward to the memorial day weekend which they can see themselves going to beaches and the rest. The trend is share friend. Certainly concerner of wall and broad a very big trend at that. Well pick that apart with technology action, retail action, oil action. That has been dancing today. It is interesting to point out right now the dow and the s p and the nasdaq, forget about the nasdaq, already in positive territory on the year, it is not more than 5 from alltime highs, my friends, alltime highs. When you look at the dow and the nasdaq, they are respectfully down 13 , 9 , from where they started, when all of this was careening. Think about that, how much ....
A religious gathering potentially exposing them to the virus. What is this is a large state you need to the. Letter response the u. N. Calls on World Leaders to allocate 10 percent of National Budgets to fight the pandemic asking developed countries to help poor economies. And setting up more business the company in gaza thats rehiring stuff so they can fill a huge demand for medical clothing. So coronavirus the deaths in the United States have exceeded the number of fatalities in china and that means the u. S. Now has the 3rd highest death toll itself to italy and spain with 3393 People Killed by the virus with more cases than any other country its scrambling to. Hundreds of temporary hospitals in new york state remains the worst affected area the hospital has been ....