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There is little Prez Trump can do to inflict pain on Amazon, Jeff Bezos

The US President's rants actually make it harder to explore the company's vulnerability to antitrust scrutiny

Why Trump can't hurt Amazon
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Joe Nocera | Bloomberg
Many of President Donald Trump’s tweets can be classified as foolhardy, but his series of recent rants about Amazon.com Inc. were over the top. I will leave to others the implications for democracy when a US president singles out a company that he wants to punish, but from a business point of view, his crusade is nuts. For all of Trump’s huffing and puffing, there is little he can do to inflict pain on Amazon and its chief executive, Jeff Bezos. It’s amazing that he can’t see it.
 
The president complains that Amazon doesn’t pay taxes. For the most part,

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