Investors perceive these companies as the ultimate winners in the Digital Age as more and more money is transferred electronically. The company has suspended its ex-financial officer and asked two of its directors to resign. Needless to say, the earnings are going to be late as a result of all of this. As The Technology Sector When upsetting the apple carts of conventional wisdom, it often occurs to me to question exactly what is at stake. It is only by exploring what the establishment gains from holding on to certain facile notions that you can figure out what it will take to transform the status quo.
Large categories are at once comfortable and awe-inspiring.
Inertia is simple historical persistence. People are by nature pretty stubborn and do not relinquish old notions even after reality stops supporting them. The very question presupposes that measuring the performance of the market is a simple thing, when in fact the abundance of indices would suggest that measuring the market is actually a pretty difficult and uncertain endeavor. Ideas can gain the same kind of brand equity. If you accept that somehow the market as a whole is measurable, things become a little less scary.