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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, podcasts, radio, news.

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Speaker 2: News, When you wanted with Bloomberg News Now, I'm mad KLANGI.

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Speaker 2: Jeff Bezos unloaded twelve million shares of Amazon this week,

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Speaker 2: the first time the billionaire has sold the company stock

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Speaker 2: since twenty twenty one. The sales took place on Wednesday

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Speaker 2: and Thursday and netted just over two billion dollars. According

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Speaker 2: to a filing Amazon disclosed on February second that Bezos

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Speaker 2: plans to sell as many as fifty million shares of

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Speaker 2: Amazon over the next twelve months, potentially cashing in on

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Speaker 2: a stock surge that's put him within reach of becoming

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Speaker 2: the world's richest person. His fortune has climbed twenty two

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Speaker 2: point six billion dollars this year to one hundred and

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Speaker 2: ninety nine point five billionaires of Friday, according to the

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Speaker 2: Bloomberg Billionaire's Index. Ukraine is considering a plan to plug

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Speaker 2: a hole in its budget in a bid to secure

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Speaker 2: money from the International Monetary Fund if crucial use USAID

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Speaker 2: remains blocked. Bloomberg's Karen Moscow has more.

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Speaker 1: Sources now Bloomberg Ukrainian officials intend to propose the plan

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Speaker 1: to the IMF. During his staff visit to Kiev in

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Speaker 1: the coming week. The plan includes expanded domestic bond sales,

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Speaker 1: tax hikes, and spending cuts. The measures are needed to

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Speaker 1: assure the IMF that Ukraine can service its debts in

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Speaker 1: case allies fail to provide aid, a condition for its

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Speaker 1: fifteen point six billion dollar loan program. The IMF plans

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Speaker 1: to review the loan program later this month, which would

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Speaker 1: unlock a nine hundred million dollar tranch of aid. Karen

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Speaker 1: Moscow Bloomberg.

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Speaker 2: Radio The New York Post is reporting at least forty

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Speaker 2: four Palestinians were killed by Israeli airstrikes at Rafa early Saturday,

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Speaker 2: just hours after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu set an attack

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Speaker 2: on the city was inevitable in order to combine evacuation plan.

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Speaker 2: The main target of one of the strikes was Ahmed

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Speaker 2: al Jagobi, a senior Hamas police official who the Israel

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Speaker 2: Defense Forces and shin Bet confirmed was killed in the attack.

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Speaker 2: Hamas military operativeman Ran Tizzy and another officer in Rafa's

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Speaker 2: secret police department were also killed. According to the IDF,

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Speaker 2: mass previously warned of tens of thousands of casualties if

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Speaker 2: Israel followed through on plans to attack Rafa. Hungary's first

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Speaker 2: female president resigned after a controversial part and she granted

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Speaker 2: an a pedophilia case threatened to taint Prime Minister Victor

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Speaker 2: Orban months before local and European elections. Katawa Novak, a

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Speaker 2: rare woman in high office in Hungary after Orban tapped

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Speaker 2: for the largely ceremonial role in twenty twenty two, announced

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Speaker 2: she was quitting. In a televised speech on Saturday, she

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Speaker 2: apologized for her pardon, saying it had been a mistake.

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Speaker 2: Her speedy resignation, just over a week after the first

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Speaker 2: report of her clemency emerged, may limit the political damage

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Speaker 2: to urban ahead of European Parliament in municipal elections that

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Speaker 2: Hungary plans to hold simultaneously in June. The so called

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Speaker 2: Great resignation that followed the pandemic might not have been

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Speaker 2: the end of it. The US may be in the

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Speaker 2: middle of a second wave, as we hear from Bloomberg's

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Speaker 2: Nathan Hagar.

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Speaker 3: New figures from the Saint Louis fed show the US

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Speaker 3: has about two point seven million more retirees than the

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Speaker 3: bank's model predicted. Part of the reason for the new

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Speaker 3: surge may be the financial markets. A gap in the

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Speaker 3: model appeared to close after the S and P five

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Speaker 3: hundred fell nineteen percent in twenty twenty two. The index

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Speaker 3: rose twenty four percent last year, and rising home values

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Speaker 3: boosted the wealth of older Americans, and with interest rates

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Speaker 3: expected to fall this year, that may be prodding more

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Speaker 3: people to retire while convincing those who already have they

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Speaker 3: don't need to return to the workforce. Nathan Hager Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 2: The IRS expects to collect hundreds of billions more dollars

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Speaker 2: in overdue on unpaid taxes thanks to new funding. Bloomberg's

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Speaker 2: Amy Morris reports from Washington.

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Speaker 4: New analysis released by the Treasury Department and the IRS

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Speaker 4: says tax revenues are expected to increase by as much

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Speaker 4: as five hundred and sixty one billion dollars from twenty

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Speaker 4: twenty four to twenty thirty four, substantially more than previous

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Speaker 4: as time, the Congressional Budget Office in twenty twenty two

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Speaker 4: had estimated tax revenues would increase by about one hundred

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Speaker 4: eighty billion dollars from twenty two to twenty thirty one.

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Speaker 4: The funding is being provided by the Democrats Inflation Reduction

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Speaker 4: Act in Washington, Amy Morris, Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 2: And that's news when you wanted with Bloomberg News. Now

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Speaker 2: I'm Ed Kaleggi, and this is Bloomberg