sounds awfully high :)

They are normally about 70 bucks, with a market cap of about 13.5 billion.

So that was a quick way to raise about 19,000 billion or 19 trillion.

That would clear the US national debt twice over and still have change for a couple of hot fudge sundaes and a banana split :)

Alternatively, in an unheard of moment of sanity, the market started to approximate Google's true worth. But someone got to it before the price actually got there.

I think it was Fred MacAulay on Mock the Week (a UK current affairs comedy programme on BBC for those outside the UK) who said:

Al-Qaeda must be kicking themselves, they've spent years blowing themselves up tring to bring about the fall of Western Capitalism and it turns out all they had to do was take out a few mortgages.

(I also heard it on Clive Anderson's Chat Room).

Hopefully they heard that comment as it might stop our idiotic politicians going on about saving us from the Evil Ones(TM).

Last month: Airline share prices whacked by "erroneous" items, thanks to an automated system run by Google.

This month: Google share prices whacked by "erroneous" items, thanks to an automated system run by the stock exchange.

Next month: RoTM makes share prices irrelevant ?