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Friday, January 17, 2003
All's Well in Amazonia North... or Is It?
A few short years ago, this would have been unthinkable. Actually, in Canada, make that a few months ago.
Wednesday around 4 p.m. I ordered two books from Amazon.ca (Jim Sterne's Web Metrics and Jim Cramer's You Got Screwed!). Both arrived on my doorstep the following a.m. I'm already enjoying Cramer's excellent and witty dissection of the Enron and WorldCom money trails. Also, shipping was free.
Amazon's delivering books 16 hours after you order them. Yahoo and eBay are turning healthy profits. Wasn't all this supposed to come "crashing down"?
After a few more corrupt CEO's and their accountants get hauled away in handcuffs, and maybe a half-dozen analysts, and for good measure, let's throw in a couple of the most annoying TV financial reporters... this economy will be ready to roll! Yep, things are really looking up!
Then again, I'm not going to get too complacent. The Amazon order came with, you guessed it, a promotional AOL CD. Visionary wunderkind billionaire technophobe Steve Case may be gone, but his legacy, and I do mean legacy, lives on. We're not out of the woods just yet.
Posted by
Andrew Goodman
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