I Have Often Read, That Some Counties Economies,

are often over shadowed by the shear size of some companies revenues,

could this possibly be true? well looking at the chart above it most certainly is, the countries in black and the businesses in red, it amazed me when I saw that Walmart dwarfed countries like Spain, India and Russia amongst others,

but how big is big? take the 20 companies above, they might look big now, but historically speaking they are all lightweights, if you adjust for inflation, at one stage the Mississippi Company in 1720 was huge at today's value adjusted figures at $6.5 trillion! far, far bigger than any combination of say the biggest of any twelve or fifteen of the above, amazingly back in 1637 there was, with figures adjusted as before an even bigger company, The Dutch East India Company, also known as The Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie (VOC), or the United East India Company that today would be valued at $7.9 trillion, that is the same as all of the above, by 1637 standards, small companies, 

so companies like Apple, Amazon and Microsoft et al, might think they are big, but they still have a long way to go to get even near to being the size of The Dutch East India Company,

then to rival the Dutch, The East India Company, was formed in England, its coat of arms granted in 1698, were: "Argent a cross Gules; in the dexter chief quarter an escutcheon of the arms of France and England quarterly, the shield ornamentally and regally crowned Or." the crest was: "A lion rampant guardant or holding between the forepaws a regal crown proper." The supporters were: "Two lions rampant guardant or, each supporting a banner erect Argent, charged with a cross Gules." The motto was AUSPICIO REGIS ET SENATUS ANGLIÆ (Latin: Under the auspices of the King and the Senate of England), and I thought that companies were big now, but they still have a long way to go to rival The Dutch East India Company.