Give me a Billion dollar loan, I’ll put the money in a bank safe and earn the $5million a year in negative interest.

Unless you are an activist investor that can throw billions behind something in order to advocate for change, when investing in a REIT, you are largely along for the ride. 

We’ve invested in over a billion dollars of real estate and our track record is good.

As a Caleb H said, you can make lots and lots on money in finance.There are hundreds of billions of dollars invested in real estate being managed by finance majors, and none by political science majors.

Commercial banks with more than 10-15 branches - not even worth it.Small regional banks with <$1 Billion in holdings is probably your best bet.The only one I talked to that I even had a CHANCE with, was a small Farmer's Bank.

Why are they spending so much time and energy hawking this stuff through multi-level marketing and Internet commercials when they could simply make billions by licensing the technology to the auto manufacturers?

Amazon.com's market cap is $84.21 billion.

As the goverment continues to print billions everyday and soon to default on thier 14 trillion dollar loan, it will be no bubble when both gold and silver spike!

According to this article on TechCrunch, when the stock opened at $60, that represented a valuation of $1.6 billion - extremely frothy, given the $11.3 million it generated in the first quarter of 2011.So . . . lets talk about this stock, the company, the numbers . . . what do you think?

With a global GDP of $60 trillion, we now have global corporate, personal and government debt equal to $160 billion (this does not include liability for pensions or social security down the road, but only current debt).