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If you look at the market prices of newspapers, radios, TV stations, you'll see that they depend little on their earnings. The buyer pays for influence on the public opinion.

How much do you think will FB support be worth to GS during the next bailout? In understanding what are the common fears, arguments for and against. Even now GS manages many deals, parts of the society don't like - outsourcing, green house options trade, arab and chinese investors, etc.

I'm suggesting GS would buy FB stock even if FB was loosing billions every year and there was no hope for future profits. In the same way GS and company are spending who knows how much on political campaigns and lobbing.

If these were $50M and not $50B your analysis would've been correct. But with such enormous amounts, it's not about money anymore, it's about power. And Facebook has the power to understand and influence what ppl think.

How much $$$ did you make?

Yeah, right. Enterprises like to check ppl history before hiring them. One can have mad skills and still be unable to find a job or business opportunity.

>> Your post, on the other hand, is reductive and boring.

So mean and bad mannered ;)

This guy, Parag Khanna, have been shown in school and Hollywood movies an extremely simplified model of the 19th and 20th centuries world. A model where all events are explained through the state politics and big business is ignored. Based on that stupid assumption he is saying that now the world is different, because there are powers outside the states.

LoL @ U

Instead of reading HN you should watch Fox News. No quotes of stupid ppl like Lenin and Trotsky there...

Some people like to go big ;-)

So you say an audit of the Federal Reserve is not necessary?

So Google successfully forced content producers, distributors and TV manufactures to adopt smart TVs, capable of showing google ads and ad sense.

Also anyone can register as student member in IEEE for $19 and get access to e-academy MSDN.

This comment doesn't make any sense IMHO ;-)

Don't forget to go through quidco or top cash back ;-)