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by scarface74 2942 days ago
Remember that AOL was able to buy Time Warner with inflated stock. If you have inflated currency (I.e. stock), why not use it to buy some real assets?
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Whether a share price is inflated or not is always a point of contention -- if it's so obvious we can all buy our put options and retire on our riches. However Microsoft could literally have sold $7.5B worth of new shares and given that money to charity (which, in turn, would have been a nice tax benefit).

That money is very real, and there is nothing free about it.

Whether a share price is inflated or not is always a point of contention -- if it's so obvious we can all buy our put options and retire on our riches.

"The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent".