July 30, 2011

"Apple has more cash on hand than the US government."

"The Treasury reported a total operating cash balance of $73.768 billion, while Apple is reported to be holding $75.876 billion according to Apple Insider."
Posted by Ann Althouse at 6:28 AM
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17 comments:

traditionalguy said...

Apparently Apple has a Jobs program.

7/30/11, 6:46 AM
Triangle Man said...

Give it a week and Meadehouse will have more cash on hand than the US government.

7/30/11, 6:47 AM
rhhardin said...

Apple's cash is probably in Treasuries.

7/30/11, 6:51 AM
Curious George said...

Yeah, but the US Government is coming out with a 4G phone than has a 12 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, Integrated GPS, Web browsing with touch control, FLASH. and home screen access to Facebook and Twitter. And the commerce clause. So no worries.

7/30/11, 6:52 AM
Brian Brown said...

Apple has products America actually wants.

7/30/11, 7:37 AM
shirley elizabeth said...

Not just America. Apple has products everyone want. If only...

7/30/11, 10:29 AM
MikeinAppalachia said...

Old "joke"-What is the difference in the Boy Scouts and the US Government? The Boy Scouts have adult leadership.
Apple has adult leadership.

7/30/11, 10:35 AM
edutcher said...

Apple has a business model that works.

The US hasn't since Taft.

7/30/11, 10:45 AM
G Joubert said...

You'd think Steve Jobs would be worth a lot more than a measly 8 billion.

7/30/11, 10:48 AM
Anonymous said...

I can see the commercial now, with the cool Apple kid versus the broke fed.

7/30/11, 11:07 AM
shirley elizabeth said...

That's it. I'm moving to Apple.

7/30/11, 11:15 AM
n.n said...

Brilliant, traditionalguy!

7/30/11, 12:32 PM
BJM said...

Another eeeeevilll corporation off-shoring manufacturing, raping Gaia's resources and hoarding cash.

7/30/11, 12:51 PM
Penny said...

What the people make, the Government takes.

How else would they get $73 billion? I mean it's not like they make anything.

7/30/11, 1:07 PM
george said...

My couch cushions have more cash than the US government.

7/30/11, 2:18 PM
galdosiana said...

Well, looks like the liberals have another big, rich corporation to protest.

Oh...

7/30/11, 3:26 PM
The Dude said...

I found $600 in my house the other day. Given my lack of financial obligations, I have more money than the government.

7/30/11, 7:57 PM

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