he goes bonkers doing jim morrison. take a look it s in a book a reading rainbow and in america, homeless, behind bars, but $70,000 richer. this is piers morgan tonight. our big story tonight, america s choice 2012, the race for the white house may come down to the economy and nothing but the economy. if it does, many democrats think that could spell big trouble for president obama. listen to what james carville said on good morning america today. i m worried when the white house and the campaign talk about the progress being made, people take that as a signal that things are fine and people, i feel, don t believe that. so, is the president in trouble over the economy. joining us an economist and author. henry rosen and nicole wallace, former campaign adviser to the mccain palin campaign. i think it does ring a lot of true bells. let s cut to the quick here. this election is going to be about the economy. nicole, there s a lot of argument raising on both sid
he goes bonkers doing jim morrison. take a look it s in a book a reading rainbow behind bars but $70,000 richer. this is piers morgan tonight. our big story tonight, america s choice 2012, the race for the white house may come down to the economy and nothing but the economy. if it does, many democrats think that could spell big trouble for president obama. listen to what james carville said on good morning america today. i m worried when the white house and the campaign talk about the progress being made, people take that as a signal that things are fine and people, i feel, don t believe that. so, is the president in trouble over the economy. joining us an economist and author. it does ring a lot of true bells. this election is going to be about the economy. nicole, there s a lot of argument raising on both sides at the moment, is anybody winning that argument? i don t think it s an argument that either one of these men can win because it s so dependent al
create. they do this periodically, an interesting public relations move as we re about to begin the trading of the stock. what they want to do is send a message to the world that they built this company on building stuff. so that s what they re doing. they posted pictures to the website showing what s going on inside some of these rooms. in terms of the fundamental challenge facing facebook in the future, it s exactly that. continuing to build services that people like. i want you to listen to silicon valley venture capitalist greg gretsch. what they re going to run into the next year, two years as they go public is the quarterly focus that wall street s going to put on them. the question will be in the coming years whether or not that quarterly focus, that quarterly drive to make the numbers, takes them off their focus on the product and the user experience. reporter: so the user experience is what made facebook, that $104 billion company, along with the advertising reve
facebook at $100 billion. the most valuable company ever at the time of its initial public offering. and more valuable than citi or mcdonald s. millions hoping it will help them boost their bottom lines this morning. dan simon is live at the facebook mothership in menlo park, california, where workers are marking the occasion by working all night long. seriously, dan, what s up with that? it s 2:00 in the morning here and we re wide awake. they re having a hack a thon, an opportunity for facebook employees to basically do what they do best build, design, create. they do this periodically, an interesting public relations move as we re about to begin the trading of the stock. what they want to do is send a message to the world that they built this company on building stuff. so that s what they re doing. they posted pictures to the website showing what s going on inside some of these rooms. in terms of the fundamental challenge facing facebook in the future, it s exactly tha
cable exclusive, this is piers morgan tonight. jimmy fallon, your new book is called thank you notes. we all know them from your show. brilliant, simple idea. very quick. you know, when you start a talk show, a late night talk show, you always hope for like the top ten list or the headlines like leno has or whatever like that. we try different things every week. this guy jeremy bronston came up with the thank you notes. it was with one off. we tried it, wrote sarcastic thank you notes, twitter, facebook blew up. my god, thank you notes did it again. guys, we might have a hit. it s cool. is it like all things in comedy, especially with the running things, is it the simpler the idea, often the more effective it is? yeah. seriously, ideas you think of off the street, like last week i really went into a store and bought a pack of gum. the receipt for the gum was two feet long. i go, you ve got to be kidding. i pay with a credit card, nothing i paid, cash, i go, what is