Developing nations are not experiencing exactly the same but have PLENTY of problems of their own (even things as simple as food and water for a billion people - and their own bubble's will bust as well).

The big boys like Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon... etc... are spending billions now acquiring or building Mobile platforms for their marketing strategies.

So the MegaMillions Lottery is upwards of 1/2 of a Billion Dollars to the winner this Friday.Thought a brief discussion could be fun:1.

He waited until he was out of earshot, told his wife, "If that guy is penniless, he's a Billion Dollars richer than I am right now."  

On the other hand, it would be wonderful if someone like a Musk would have invested a couple of billion dollars into doing this for real instead of Twittering away his assets on stupid online advertising platforms.Would love to have folks with far more experience and expertise than me take a look at the webinar in the light of this whole thread going back two years. 

Under a billion.

So, why is McDonalds still spending billions on advertising?

Unless you want to go work at like a PE firm and run a multi billion real estate investment portfolio in which case you’ll probably need a graduate degree anyways.

The dollar coin that George Washington is alleged to have thrown across the Delaware would be worth over 3.6 billion dollars today if it had been invested and earned a 10% average annual return over the years. 8)

They currently hold between $750 BILLION AND ONE TRILLION in foreign exchange reserves, MOS OF IT IN US TREASURIES.