# Professor Scott Galloway discusses the monopolistic tendencies of Amazon

1 Faculty News February 17, 2020 ![The Washington Post logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_031074.jpg?itok=f6OME_Rm)>

Excerpt from [The Washington Post](http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/tv/investigating-amazon-pbs-frontline-opens-the-smiling-cardboard-box-and-finds-george-orwell/2020/02/17/7f00dc88-4dd2-11ea-bf44-f5043eb3918a_story.html) -- "New York University business professor [Scott Galloway](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/scott-galloway) notes that the health insurance industry shed billions of dollars in value on the morning after Amazon merely hinted, in a news release, at an interest in health-care costs. 'Amazon has these Darth Vader-like abilities to just look at a sector and begin choking it of oxygen,' he says."

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