Stephen L. Carter, Columnist

How Trump and Amazon Will Dominate 2019

14 predictions for the year to come.

December 28, 2018 at 2:30 PM UTC

Stephen L. Carter is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist, a professor of law at Yale University and author of “Invisible: The Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster.”

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I have already recapped my predictions for 2018, noting my hits and misses. Now it’s time for my predictions for 2019. Not all are seriously meant but some are more seriously meant than they may appear. I will leave it to the reader to figure out which are which. To the predictions:

1. Embarrassed by the disdainful reaction to the outcome of its HQ2 process, which wound up choosing the pricey suburbs of Washington and New York City for its new offices, Amazon will announce an HQ3 plan, promising to select only distressed areas. Desperate governors and mayors across the country will immediately begin talking down their cities as miserable places where nobody wants to live.