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Performance Art, Right?

by David Kurtz
05.23.12 | 1:34 pm

It won’t be easy. I know. But take a moment to plumb the depths of your memory and peer far back through the mists of time to … last Friday, when CNBC was freaking out over Facebook’s IPO. And then compare that to today, when CNBC was freaking out over Facebook’s IPO for entirely different reasons.

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