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From full global headquarters, this is Motley Fool Money.

Welcome to Motley Fool Money. Thanks for being here.

I'm your host, Chris Hell, and I'm joined by Motley Fool,

Senior Analyst, Seth Jason James Early, and Tim Hansen.

Good to see you. Good to see you, Chris. On today's show, we will wrap up 2010

by reviewing some of the major business stories, the companies in the news,

and we'll look at how some of the big names stocks did.

We'll also talk tech companies and Silicon Valley with Forbes Magazine Editor,

Eric Savitz, plus as always, a few stocks on our radar.

But guys, we will begin this week with Time Magazine.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was named as Times Person of the Year

earlier this week. Last year, Ben Bernanke, this year, Mark Zuckerberg.

Tim Hansen, I'll start with you. What did you think?

It's a reasonable choice given what the person of the Year Award is supposed to recognize,

which is just someone that was influential and may have done something good and or bad,

but on a large scale during the year.

And Facebook is certainly on a large scale at this point.

I thought it was a reasonable choice. The only other candidate I could think of might have been

Jean-Claude Trichet, who's the ECB president over in Europe,

who was trying to move heaven and earth to save the Euro,

but Mark Zuckerberg is a lot more fun.

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