Amidst the political debates over the federal
budget and the debt ceiling crisis, the U.S. government revealed that it
now has $73 billion remaining as the “financial headroom” before
hitting an arbitrary debt ceiling. Interestingly, this figure, which
represents all that the government has left to spend is less than the
mountain of cash that Apple’s sitting on as reserve.
Apple has been rapidly building up a gigantic cash reserve over the
years. In 2005 it reported $9 billion in cash on hand, which has since
skyrocketed to $60 billion in 2010. At that time