I suppose the government could confiscate a hundred billion and use it to invade a small country for a few weeks.

I'm not going to put down your imagination but it didn't take me long to think of a worse use.

I sometimes wonder if Apple knows more about investing than they let on? They obviously care about money. Why would they let billions sit around in cash? I won't even speculate, but here's a graph of their horde of cash and when we gave it to them. Yes, I said we(the world of course). (Don't want to offend anyone concerning Apple.)

http://www.engadget.com/2014/05/22/charting-apples-growing-s...

This way they can attack big projects and commit suppliers to building out new factories, granting exclusivity on contracts, etc., as opposed to someone who's very efficient at deploying, but then has trouble getting liquidity when times get rough.

By Apple et al I meant private enterprise.