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Re:Facebook Profit Jumps 71% Year-over-Year by protomyth on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @06:10PM (#14860836)
Apple is also running up quite the debt (over $100B) in the US so the overall figure is actually lower.

http://www.barrons.com/articles/apple-plans-to-sell-lots-of-...

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Re:Facebook Profit Jumps 71% Year-over-Year by seanmcdirmid on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @07:41PM (#14861390)
They do that because interest rates are low and much of their cash hasn't been repatriated (taxed) to the USA.
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Re:Facebook Profit Jumps 71% Year-over-Year by protomyth on Thursday July 27, 2017 @05:18PM (#14869671)
Yes, but that doesn't really change the fact that their money in the bank needs to be considered partially encumbered.
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