You can't get power if you don't have money but you can't get (more) money if you don't have power. So it means that both are right. Knowledge = money = power.
We can't separate both of them. We gain knowledge to get money, and we spend money to gain knowledge. Both of them are important.
Knowledge is more important than money, but money holds more power, because you have the power to give that money to people who want it badly, a perfect example is in your first post.
Reminds me of the quote off of scarface: But yeah money is power, with money you can buy knowledge, health pretty much anything.
Here's a new philosophical challenge: If money is power, what will it be in the afterlife? Would you not prefer knowledge about where you are going to spend the rest of your life if you die? Or do you believe in re-incarnation? If you spend eternity elsewhere then money is useless. And as for those who believe that you will be re-incarnated, what will happen when the sun explodes (predicted)? Or we run out of resources to survive?
I'm think "money" is the most power and the tools to driving something is flow. But a money is not everything in my life.
Money is a power..and thats true..the thing is were u use that money..and in which way...if you have a money in your hand you can buy anything..anything means anything..from which you can get any profit