Consider H&R Block's ( HRB ) earnings report from last Wednesday. There is chaos spreading in the middle east, the U.S. legislature is polarized and paralyzed like never before in American history, wages are falling, inflation is returning, and the word on the Street, based on recent corporate earnings announcements, is-all's well. The Street has been watching Adobe carefully since last year, when the company decided to forgo traditional software sales for a cloud services / licensing model.