Just how much is $220 billion?

Harry Shannon You have no doubt read about the ultra-lavish wedding of Jeff Bezos, the boss of Amazon. As one Toronto Star columnist wrote, it was "a filthy obscenity." His column was reproduced in the Hamilton Spectator. I checked how much Bezos is worth. At least, that's how it's typically phrased, but of course it's not what people are ac…

FAANGs or …?

Harry Shannon A couple of weeks ago the Toronto Star had a story on the big tech companies Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Google.  The headline used an acronym to write: “Tech giants’ FAANGs sink teeth into our wallets.”  (They also mentioned Microsoft, but I guess the acronym wouldn’t have worked.) The story quoted a Univer…