And the reason why it has not shown such huge revenue and profit numbers up to now, is primarily just because Zuckerburg has always taken an attitude that he wanted to delay, what is called monetization, until the farthest possible moment, putting an emphasis instead on user growth.

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Because the heart of the "Keynesian" critique of Mr Osborne's approach has always been that there were rare times when monetary policy did not work very well, and that now, just after a major financial crisis, was one of those times.

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Putin took over power in Russia and not just a few of the now billionaire Russian kleptocrats started having accidents and heart attacks with surprising regularity and always in suspicious circumstances.

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