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A comment on Apple's cash hoard swells to $246B. Parent comment

Re:Apple's cash hoard swells to $246B by ropiku on Saturday April 15, 2017 @06:35PM (#14123220)
But those $300b weren't sitting there idle, they were already in the economy in the first place. They don't have to be in the US to be loaned/invested in US companies.
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Re:Apple's cash hoard swells to $246B by lisper on Saturday April 15, 2017 @10:20PM (#14124015)
> They don't have to be in the US to be loaned/invested in US companies.

They don't? That's news to me. How do you invest in a U.S. company without bringing the money into the U.S.?

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