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580 Million Bucks for a Box of Electrons

Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2011 12:00 am
by Dr Exile
Years ago when I was involved with the initial public offering of a gold mine, a stock with no assets (property, buildings etc) had no "book value" and was called "blue sky stock" because it was backed by the blue sky.

Along comes Rupert Murdoch who, for 580 million bucks buys the ultimate blue sky stock, a box of electrons called Myspace.

Where was this schmuck when I was selling mining stock? That box of electrons would be worth more if he dumped out the electrons and filled it with little round turds from my billy goat. Myspace has negative value. The entire internet has no value. Google could die in a month if some pimple faced kid in his mommies basement came up with something better. Even the servers loose value faster than used cars. The kids of today have a saying, "Oh that's so last week."

Shit, where were these rubes when I was in the mining business?

Re: 580 Million Bucks for a Box of Electrons

Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2011 12:04 am
by Royal
Social Media will have the same characteristics we see in fashion.

Re: 580 Million Bucks for a Box of Electrons

Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2011 12:56 am
by Egg
Everything's based on nothing.

Nice rant, Marty.

Re: 580 Million Bucks for a Box of Electrons

Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2011 1:13 am
by Royal
I can hear the executives now... "How much did we pay for that shit?"

Re: 580 Million Bucks for a Box of Electrons

Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2011 1:25 am
by Pigeon
These idiots are claiming that facbook is 70 billion. See what kissing up to the CIA gts ya.

Re: 580 Million Bucks for a Box of Electrons

Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2011 1:39 am
by Royal
Facebook is on the way out. All owners should sell now.

Re: 580 Million Bucks for a Box of Electrons

Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2011 1:50 am
by Pigeon
GS will keep it propped up until it can ream a few more investors.