Daily Standard: Amazon’s HQ2 Is Going to Suck

[View this as website]( [SUBSCRIBE - Get Print and Full Digital]( [daily standard header] Tuesday, November 13, 2018 [Fact Check: Another Fake Maxine Waters Quote]( You've been bamboozled. [Read More]( [Amazon’s HQ2 Is Going to Suck]( National Landing just made a huge mistake. [Read More]( [NFL Offense Is Booming—and Unsustainable]( Plus: seeing space in a certain kind of light, and 2018 ballot referendums. [Read More]( [Born-Again Free Traders?]( The new House Democrats have to figure out how to square opposition to Trump with skepticism about free trade. [Read More]( [Feedback Mania]( There is only one valid definition of a business purpose: to create a customer,” the business writer Peter Drucker once said. One of the great things about capitalism is its concern with pleasing the customer, but in recent years this concern has gotten out of hand. Nowadays almost every transaction triggers a customer survey. The words I have come to dread are: “We would appreciate your feedback.” [Read More]( [Editorial: America's North Korea Policy Is a Failure]( From "fire and fury" to summits and appeasement. [Read More]( [After Charles Murray Fiasco, Middlebury College Launches Civil Discourse Program]( Can the Alexander Hamilton Forum prevent history from repeating itself? [Read More]( ADVERTISEMENT [TWS CRUISE 2017 FALL]( Afternoon Links No afternoon links today! Was too busy writing down my thoughts [as to why the new Amazon HQ2(a) in Northern Virginia is going to suck.]( My takeaway? "Lots of major cities want to host the Olympics. And it rarely works out for them. Hosting the Olympics is almost always a boondoggle in the long run. And if you think that’s bad, imagine bidding on the rights to an Olympics that never ends." Am I just a curmudgeon? (Don't answer that.) I'd be interested in your thoughts, so drop me a line... email below. —Jim Swift, deputy online editor. Please feel free to send us comments, thoughts and links to dailystandard@weeklystandard.com. —30— ADVERTISEMENT [Free Luggage Tag]( This email was sent to {EMAIL} [Unsubscribe from this List]( [Update Subscription Preferences]( The Weekly Standard | [1152 15th Street NW Suite 200 | Washington, DC 20005](