Amazon vs. NY Times
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🗓️ 17 August 2015
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
A New York Times article on Amazon’s work conditions for white-collar employees puts the e-commerce giant in the spotlight. Plus we dip into the Fool Mailbag to discuss the best way to invest in a future rise in oil prices, explain Zillow’s massive stock drop and analyze Disney’s expansion plans for Star Wars theme parks.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, August 17th. |
| 0:03.8 | Welcome to Market Foolry. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm Prisc Hill joining me in studio today for a million dollar portfolio, |
| 0:08.0 | Jason Moser and from Stock Advisor Canada, Taylor Mukerman, |
| 0:12.0 | happy Monday gentleman. Heyoo! Good weekends. are Canada, Taylor Mukerman, Happy Monday, gentlemen. |
| 0:13.3 | Heyo! |
| 0:14.4 | Good weekends? |
| 0:15.4 | Great weekend, yeah. |
| 0:16.4 | Yeah, good weekends. |
| 0:17.4 | You both watched the golf, didn't you? |
| 0:18.4 | I went to Outer Banks for a couple days. |
| 0:20.0 | Oh, did you? |
| 0:21.0 | Wow, man, I love the Outer you. And was it a shark-free weekend free? |
| 0:26.0 | Yeah, not a single dorsal fin to speak of. |
| 0:28.8 | Fantastic. We are going to dip into the full mail bag. We are going to dip into the full mailbag. |
| 0:33.0 | We are going to talk about the news that Bob Eager shared over the weekend. |
| 0:40.0 | But let's start with the business story of the day, certainly the business story of Sunday, |
| 0:46.8 | and that is the New York Times article entitled Inside Amazon Wrestling Big Ideas in a bruising workplace and if you've read the |
| 0:58.7 | article then you you already know if you haven't read the article |
| 1:03.0 | uh... jason it does paint a picture of a very tough workplace |
| 1:07.6 | not and and let's be clear this is not the warehouses |
| 1:12.0 | this is not people who are are so-called blue not the |
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