Poll: I give you $50 billion, you buy a stake in...?

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Fellow Traders,

I recently came across an article on the CNN website via Fortune magazine entitled, "5 Reasons Why I'm Not Buying Facebook," and it made me start wondering, 'if I had the money to invest in this or perhaps own a chunk of some of the other big names out there, which would I choose?'

Now I want to know what YOU would choose so vote below, but make sure you check back as I will be posting what I would do and why soon, right here on the Trader's Blog.

What would you do if you had $50 billion to buy a company with?

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Happy Trading,
Adam

48 thoughts on “Poll: I give you $50 billion, you buy a stake in...?”

  2. Every ounce of physical silver on the planet.

    At that point JPM and GS would be history.

    So would all the banks and credit unions.

    Nations would be gone and so would the concept of fiat money.

  3. Without looking at charts and given these three are the only choices, I would pick AAPL simply because I'm not putting "all my eggs in one basket".

  4. if i have invest in Goldman Sachs for $44 billion from $50 billion. i think $44 billion that is for invest and $600 million for cost to more invest if it have the profit ,if loss that can manage $600 million to help and waiting the profit in future .Sometime if it don't have the profit , we can get the cost to invest in other company that you think ,it perfect with you , you might be to you gold

  5. Just the fact that you are asking what I would do with 50 billion dollars spells metals to me.At least a billion worth. The rest you can have because I have no idea what you would do with all that paper except to start fires with in my wood stove.So I would leave the rest to you and invest in the best ideas you got friends.

  6. This is not germane but:

    Has everyone noticed all the monthly green triangles on stocks showing up, and all the red monthlies on etf shorts and ultra shorts? Looks like it's "risk off" with mom and pop piling in big time. Trouble is, of course, that sort of confidence sometimes precedes a drop. The only question is when. In real estate its location, location, location. In trading its timing, timing, timing.

    Happy New Year to all aspiring traders.

  7. i would go for the life time membership of Marketclub from some money and rest will invest in markets on their recommendation............

  11. Interesting comments it seams a lot of people like gold & silver. Iam long the dollar & short, gold, silver & the S&P in my own account. I failed in my thinking in above post I was thinking only going long the above companies but I would prefure to short any of them in the following order face book , goldman, apple

  12. Dave, I am with you on this rant... Several years ago, 2002, Admiral Pointdexter was the front man for a mass database to be setup to keep track of everybody in our society, the DARPA Information Awareness Project. It reminded me of the East German political police, the STASI, that up until then had the most comprehensive BIG BROTHER data base in the world on its own people. The Pointdexter initiative was torpedoed by Congress as a result of mass complaints from the citizenry. And then Facebook pops up in 2004... Coincidence???
    Welcome to the 21st century, nothing is free anymore; not even the markets.
    If I had $50 Billion to invest... I would apply $15 Billion in precious metals (GOLD and SILVER), $20 Billion in rare earth metals exploration companies in Canada/Australia and $5 Billion in the following currencies: Brazilian Real, Canadian Dollar, Australian Dollar, Russian Ruble and Chinese Yuan. I hesitate regarding the Indian Rupee because in my perspective, the Indian society appears lopsided in many respects, which sooner or later will hamper rather than propel its economy. The remaining $10 Billion would be used to invest in agricultural companies dedicated to non genetically modified, ORGANIC products and seeds.

  13. I wouldnt invest in any of those. I would however buy a huge chunk of Spintronics, ticker NVEC, it will completly change all computers. International Coal(soon to be acquired) NiGold, at 22 grams per ton, its a no brainer. Ultra Lithium, They have the upper hand on a large tantalum discovery. and Greenland Minerals, one heck of a REE whopper. The rest I would use to get the heck out of the US and move to Costa Rica. Facebook is for people who like being data mined..count me out.

  14. AAPL is gonna blow. But so will others in the similar ring. I would buy AAPL before I bought gold.

  15. I would travel around the world to discover new opportunities...companies dealing with lithium, some chinese stocks, energy sector, NBG......I am not investing in facebook

  16. yeah right. i can say my house painting company is worth 100 million but only an idiot will believe that. i do not see many ads on face book so where are they generating money? selling private info ? i would not buy one share even if it was cheap.

  21. I did'nt like the choices either. The one thing that is sure to stay steady is the renewable energy market. Wind and solar are sure to be around long term in one forum or another. The silver markets will become strong in the next few years but right now there is'nt much demand. Has anyone herd of the oil strike in the Dakotas?
    The oil there is larger than Texas ever had But will they dump it on the world market instead of keeping it here at home like they should. We need to start taking care of America instead of the world!

  22. Not a real green dress, that's cruel.

    For 50 billion you could buy a large island, Cuba for instance.

    Nobody get the irony of Facebook valued at more than half GS?

  23. I'd buy half of Goldman, first to learn anything they might accidentally know about honest trading, and secondly, half would put me in control of the place for all intents and purposes, and I'd wield that power to clean the joint up! I'd hire myself and pay myself enough in bonuses to live as I do now and fund my fusion research along the way...(in other words, small 6 figs, a tiny fraction of the usual there).

    Think of that -- what better chance to go down in history in a good way?

    Apple may go up, may go down -- when, not if, they lose Jobs, they're going to go down from the psychology alone, his reality distortion field is required in their business model -- who else can have customers defend a product that can't even get the alarm clock working? Facebook probably doesn't deserve to exist as a privacy invasion for profit, and are just as evil in some ways, but that's another story entirely. No way they're worth 50 bil, even to take down, they'll fail on their own at some point when sheeple wake up to what they really do.

    Nah, gotta be Goldman, to make them really do "god's work" instead of what they actually do.

  24. With a gun to my head I would buy Goldman. How can you go wrong with the crooks that have the power to write the rules? Prefer precious metals diversified outside the U.S., retire and never buy a stock again. (I know that in total systemic failure I can't eat gold. Buy a fiddle, play and watch things burn.)

  27. Well, diversification is one of the prime lessons taught at MC.

    So I would reject the choices above and put equal amounts into a very large selection of non-related sectors, equities, bonds, real estate (farmland), technology, water, energy (oil and high-tech) soft and hard commodities, banks, retail, shipping, etc etc. And put 10% into a variety of shorts.

    And if I had $50 billion, I would get my car fixed and buy my girlfriend a green dress.

    :-o)

  28. Facebook is a joke. Ever since the nazi Hank Paulson saved GS, it operates in a different realm, not free enterprise. That leaves Apple and a real tech/free enterprise hero in Steve Jobs.

  31. plenty of precious metals ( physical bullion in my possession ), agriculture and energy in that order. if i had anything left over, maybe a "few" shares of berkshire hathaway.

  32. Too narrow a poll, I wouldn't buy either of them, but if I had a gun held to my head to chose one it would probably be APPLE as i want no part of a company that RAPES the whole world with their predatory practices. My first choice would be to buy Silver Wheaton, Franco-Nevada and Royal Gold as the SAFEST precious metals investments given that they have very low overhead, secure contracts with mining companies who have all the risks of actually digging the stuff out of the ground and DEMAND is rising exponentially.

  33. I would never waste 50 billion in either of these 3 crappy companies that will soon vanish from the earth´s surface.
    Why would anyone invest in corrupt american business?
    Precious metals in the only investment now when the corrupt US economy is imploding.

  34. None of the above. Traditional (thousands of years) stores of wealth are gold, silver, land and cattle. All better than the options listed. Water and fertilizer and oil companies also good. Diversify. Oh yeah, the fewer US based assets, the better.

  36. I'd buy as much physical silver as possible! I'd be buying a stake in the heart of the JP Morgue! 😉

  39. GS. I think APPL makes great products, but in the long run the iPhone is doomed with Android phones. As for Facebook - I'm anti social networking! I'm fairly young and most people my age are heavy Twitter and FB users -- (Why are people such attention whores nowadays? e.g. we live in an age where Lebron James has to broadcast his "decision" to the public. And people feel the egotistical need to broadcast there every move and though to the world on Twitter and FB. People are spending more time on Facebook than interacting with real humans, which is scary. Kids, go out play some street hockey, play in the snow and build a snowman. Maybe kids need a good old fashion beating from your parents or even better yet a beating from the Market. Don't get me wrong, if I have a business to promote I'm going to be pro social networking -- other than that, I value my privacy and don't have time to broadcast my every fart to the world. Sorry for the rant, but people need to step back from this FB nonsense and do some real thinking. GS gets my vote. They run the show....even moreso after watching Inside Job narrated by Matt Damon.

  40. The future of face book is @ risk as the battle begins of censoring of information that is put on the internet i.e., Wekileaks

  41. what about 1/3rd of each one?

    I'll get the Mighty One in all of 3 (and somewhere else too) and I would share the risk

    pls Adam be ready with your bank order, I'm steady, waiting for ... 😉

  42. I would never touch goverment sachs @ some point when the masses lose the value of thier investments they will lose it & the wall street bankers could be taken to the streets & hanged. Someone will pay the piper for bogus mortgage securities sold to the world. I would go with Apple.

  44. I would hate to put all those eggs in one basket.
    I would buy 1/2 of Goldman Sachs, and I would use the rest to take trading lessons from Adam. ( I would have some left over to do something else!)
    Everyone hates GS, loves Apple and loves facebook.
    I think Apple is very dependent on Steve Jobs, when he is gone, or loses interest, then I wonder where Apple will go. Apple also manufactures in China, so a good deal of their intellectual property is all available to the Chinese. Apple has put out amazing growth, I wonder how long it can continue.
    Not sure at all about Facebook. It could be another new secular trend, or it could be a complete bust as a publically traded company. I would buy it rather than Apple.
    However, I can lose money with the best of them....
    julie

  45. I would buy 25% of BHP Billiton. The company has significant worldwide productions in copper, lead, zinc, iron ore, diamonds, coal and manganese.

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