The economy is all we think about at the moment.  I prefer to see this as a systemic shift in business, with old business disappearing and a better system appearing. A company I have watched since internet appeared in a big way is Amazon.  Quietly they re-invent things, starting with books, moving to other consumer goods, then to virtual storage, virtual servers, and virtual databases.  More recently the Kindle.  This is not a co-oncidence.  There are no Amazon stores. They are a genuine internet company. Anyhow, I plugged into Google Finance with Amazon, eBay, Dow, Borders (just in case it … Continue reading Is the stock market telling us the obvious | industrial revolution has arrived