Originally Posted by deltabound

Good article, and I appreciate you posting it.

I'm not an economist: but it stands to reason that there has to be a way to avoid raider mischief: Apple has an unreal amount of cash, but you don't see huge banks buying it out to raid their cash reserves. Which, since legal, would be a totally "capitalist" thing to do. At least for the purchaser...not so much for a hollowed out Apple.

Plenty of regulatory changes that need to happen; now seems like an extraordinarily good time to do it.

But at the very least, I'd rather see "excess" profits returned to shareholders via dividends.