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Re:Business writers, please stop comparing market value to GDP by oliwarner on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @11:49AM (#17707691)
HN is a weird place. People are queuing up to beat on GDP but everybody seems happy that market cap actually means something worth comparing.

Pension investment pools aside, the world would more easily weather the immediate passing of Apple than Amazon or WMT.

They're all made up numbers, Jim. Comparing them just amplifies the stupid.

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Re:Business writers, please stop comparing market value to GDP by bvc35 on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @12:40PM (#17708195)
>They're all made up numbers

All numbers are made up.

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