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Comment by nrjames | Hacker News Reader

I can't even fathom that amount of money.

Analysts remain "concerned" about $AAPL growth because world forests cannot produce enough paper for how much cash $AAPL continues to print.

One was quoted, saying "The paper shortage due to Apple's enormous cash reserves are overblown; that's why they have Apple Pay."

The good news is that the Irish government uses Euros, which are made of cotton fiber, not wood pulp.

US dollars are made of cotton and linen.

I almost mentioned that too (basically nobody makes money out of paper, it's too fragile), but it ruined the snappiness of the quip.

you know you are in trouble when we start having electron shortages resulting in not enough electrons to erase flash chips so we can program in the large bank balances :-)

$AAPL has requested the mint start making them 1 trillion dollar coins

Microsoft and Alphabet are printing money. Apple had to go digital.

That's why they switched to high resolution displays, so they could fit all the zeros in their bank account on the screen without scrolling.

It's easily enough to fund the US Federal government for about 3 weeks. A bit over 10 days if state and local are factored in.

Imagine! If the US Federal government were able to find a way to take half of that money, they'd be able to struggle along for almost two more whole weeks!

Imagine if Apple management were a bunch of tax (aka revenue) cutters that also spent all the tax revenue handing it out to their cronies via earmarks and carve-outs in the annual budget?

It's easy to blame the Federal government when it's leadership is hell-bent on breaking it by unfunded mandates, croynism and expensive wars while also cutting the tax revenues.

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