"[Microsoft's] $240 million investment in Facebook values the social-networking Web site at 500 times its estimated 2007 earnings of $30 million. To put a valuation like that into perspective, if you slapped it on General Electric, the industrial conglomerate would have a market cap of $11 trillion, just $1 trillion short of the total U.S. GDP." What brilliant analysis! Because we all know GE is growing 2.8 percent a week, just like Facebook. [Deal Journal]