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Then by all means ignore my advice and ride any bubble down to earth - Sword says so! Good lord, are you being argumentative to be argumentative? What did I say that was wrong? When a stock starts dipping, when the bubble starts collapsing, dump.

When has Apple started COLLAPSING? Puget. Again you are spreading deliberate FUD... You are claiming a non-existent BUBBLE... it seems to be the latest talking point from the troll crowd. At least it is popping up in various places from the usual suspects. "The value of Apple stock is a bubble." "Dump it at the first sign of a dip!" PANIC! SCREAM AND SHOUT... The "Sky is Falling!"

It just so happens I DO have a degree in Finance... from where doesn't matter. It certainly trumps your ignorance of the subject you have been spouting on here.

Yep, my data was a few days old. Sorry about that. Of course, Microsoft's been giving the money away to their owners, the shareholders, in the form of a dividend...

OH, BS! Puget... backpeddling as fast as you can... "a few days old..." is pure bullsh!t! Apple announced their holdings almost 2 months ago... and Microsoft's last dividend was booked June 16th... and is not included in their cash on hand since then... it became an obligation to be paid to the stockholders and was no longer liquid. I will grant you it was paid out on September 9, 2010. That dividend payout was only a little over $1.1 Billion... so even if we ADD that back, that still totals $37.9 billion and change. $7 billion less than Apple's holdings in cash and liquid assets. Quit trying to make it seem you were telling the truth, because Microsoft GAVE IT AWAY to the stockholders, only a few days out of date,. You are again HOIST on your petard.

Smart move again. Get low interest loans right now, leverage the cash you have and lock in to historically low rates. It's not like you need the cash for operations, but if you can get it at a cheap rate, why the heck not?

Borrowing money to pay DIVIDENDS??? That's sort of like borrowing money to put in savings... That is usually frowned on by regulators... and stockholders. That's the kind of thing management does to appease stockholders when things aren't really going too well. They are tossing the stockholder's a bone from borrowed money. If the money is "overseas," and "not readily available" to pay dividends, it is really NOT liquid... and that is worrisome.