Joe Nocera, Columnist

Trump, Musk, Ghosn and Other Tragedies: 2018 in Review

A look at the year’s opinions, with the benefit of hindsight.

December 31, 2018 at 3:19 PM UTC

Corrected

January 7, 2019 at 4:20 PM UTC

Joe Nocera is a former Bloomberg Opinion columnist. He has written business columns for Esquire, GQ and the New York Times, and is the former editorial director of Fortune. He is the host and writer of the Bloomberg-Wondery podcast "The Shrink Next Door."

Trump can’t stop Amazon. Still.
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As the year comes to a close, I always like to take a look back and reflect on what I got right, what I got wrong — and why.

Let’s start with Amazon, shall we? In April, after President Donald Trump began calling on the U.S. Postal Service to jack up the price it charges the company to deliver packages, I wrote a column suggesting that for all his venom toward Amazon, there really isn’t much the president could do to hurt it. (Quick reminder: Trump’s animus is really aimed at chief executive Jeff Bezos because of his ownership of The Washington Post.)