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    Facebook Goes Public

    Facebook takes the leap. JP Morgan chief Jamie Dimon takes one for the team. TD Ameritrade founder Joe Ricketts gets rolled. Greece leaving the Eurozone?

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    By Matt Miller • May 18, 2012 • 30m Listen

    Facebook's long-awaited IPO sets sail, with co-founder Mark Zuckerberg updating his page with "Listed a company on NASDAQ". Meanwhile, the revelation that billionaire TD Ameritrade founder Joe Ricketts was contemplating a $10 million negative ad campaign against President Obama, caused him to stop contemplating it. The President and seven of his fellow world leaders, aka the G8, headed to the country place, aka Camp David, for the weekend. And JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon took one for the team, aka the banking industry.

    Banner image: A reporter waits for the share price of Facebook to start trading at the Nasdaq stock market moments before it went public on May 18, 2012 in New York, United States. Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images

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      Co-host, 'Left, Right & Center'

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