Troublingly, my best theory was that Mark Zuckerberg stood to inherit a trillion dollars from his eccentric uncle, but only if he could spend a billion dollars in less than 30 days without acquiring any tangible property.

I find it all hard to reconcile with any sort of economic reality. A company that produces nothing but is somehow worth billions of dollars buys another company that produces nothing for more billions of dollars. Someone explain to me how we're not heading headlong towards yet another crash, or at least another dot com bubble burst?

Jon