{"id":17801,"date":"2021-02-03T09:06:03","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T16:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=17801"},"modified":"2021-02-03T09:09:39","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T16:09:39","slug":"overnight-news-failing-up-amazons-new-grand-poohbah-is-the-jerk-who-just-cost-shareholders-billions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/17801\/overnight-news-failing-up-amazons-new-grand-poohbah-is-the-jerk-who-just-cost-shareholders-billions\/","title":{"rendered":"Overnight News: Failing up: Amazon\u2019s new Grand Poohbah is the jerk who just cost shareholders\u00a0billions."},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cA puppy bit my nose \u2013 and I liked\u00a0it.\u201d<\/p><\/div>Jeff Bezos resigns.<\/a> Big yawn. He has to make more time to take Soros lessons.<\/p>\n

What’s funnier about the swap is his replacement: Andy Jassy, the man who killed Parler and in so doing alienated thousands \u2013 perhaps millions \u2013 of Amazon’s retail customers, costing shareholders billions of dollars in the long run.<\/p>\n

So I’m left to wonder: Is he really so good that he can make up for a billion-dollar blunder? Or is Amazon less in the retail business and more in the Soros business?<\/p>\n

In other news:<\/p>\n

Redfin:<\/strong> 2021 Housing Market Shaping Up to be Even Hotter than 2020.<\/a><\/p>\n

CBNC:<\/strong> Mortgage refinancing suddenly surges, but homebuyers stall due to sticker shock.<\/a><\/p>\n

Housing Wire:<\/strong> White homeownership rate hits nine-year high. Black homeownership, meanwhile, fell to 44.1% in the fourth quarter of 2020.<\/a><\/p>\n

City Journal:<\/strong> New York\u2019s Housing Refugees: The affordability crisis is a burden for residents and a drag on growth.<\/a><\/p>\n

FEE.org:<\/strong> Local Kroger Stores Close as California \u2018Hero Pay\u2019 Ordinance Backfires.<\/a><\/p>\n

Real Clear Politics:<\/strong> Enemies of the State vs. Enemies of the People.<\/a><\/p>\n

City Journal:<\/strong> Secretary of Ethnic Studies? President Biden\u2019s choice to lead the Education Department has a thin record\u2014except in one trailblazing area.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cA puppy bit my nose \u2013 and I liked\u00a0it.\u201dJeff Bezos resigns. Big yawn. He has to make more time to take Soros lessons. What’s funnier about the swap is his replacement: Andy Jassy, the man who killed Parler and in so doing alienated thousands \u2013 perhaps millions \u2013 of Amazon’s retail customers, costing shareholders billions […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,26,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17801","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-group-therapy","7":"category-lending","8":"category-marketing","9":"category-real-estate","11":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":781,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/781\/investors-version-of-grandpas-coffee-can-diversification\/","url_meta":{"origin":17801,"position":0},"title":"Investor’s Version Of Grandpa’s Coffee Can — Diversification","author":"Jeff Brown","date":"December 19, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"For the first time I'd like to post, almost simultaneously, (simulpost?) on a subject which has facinated me for years. My purpose is merely to introduce the subject. A meatier post will follow. 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This stunt always used to work with my Gammy.\"","rel":"","context":"In "Big Mother"","block_context":{"text":"Big Mother","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/big-mother\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17801"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17804,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17801\/revisions\/17804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}