Russia just altered its government, finally booting the communists in a peaceful election. The Baltics are comparatively quiet. All that peace lets global trade flourish. Capital can move to where it is most efficiently used, and the more choices it has, the better. More people join the world market, buying goods, making goods, adding to the supply and the demand and stoking the world economy.
Business is good.
The more this happens, the more it promotes peace. The cycle of peace, prosperity and more peace has been swirling in the right direction this year. The Internet had been surging for a few years, beating against the seawalls surrounding traditional business. But it remained on the fringe, its transformational powers more about the future than the present. Whole chunks of the economy resisted.